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> There are 20 more that you could have named. Of course; these were just examples as the "e.g." tells. > How do you test that someone is an expert, especial
by wolfgke 6y ago
> There are 20 more that you could have named.
Of course; these were just examples as the "e.g." tells.
> How do you test that someone is an expert, especially if you don’t have an expert on staff?
I gave some idea on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24841552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24841552
- ebiester 6y agoThat gets to the difference between a generalist and a specialist. Sometimes, I need to hire a specialist because we need someone who can provide high level expertise to a group of generalists. (E.g. a specialist on visual design and interactions with javascript, react, and best practices regarding such.) If we are looking to hire for that skill, trivia isn't going to work but neither do we want to hire someone who can talk a good game but would be quickly exposed by an expert, and will lead us down the wrong path. Now, I can give you all sorts of answers here. My point is that unless you're going to put a lot of effort into redesigning the interview process from first principles for your company due to some need (like Google), or you are putting your effort into a startup like interviewing.io, you're likely going to take an existing process and tweak it. And that explains why the fence is there.