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> "In the past, when I was interviewing myself, I would come across large numbers of really smart candidates all the time. Once in a while, though, I'd find som
by tpoacher 6y ago
> "In the past, when I was interviewing myself, I would come across large numbers of really smart candidates all the time. Once in a while, though, I'd find someone exceptional who could approach problems differently, and those people would always turn out to be the best hires. They would have been filtered out by these systems."
This reminded me of a quote I once heard (on Slashdot if I'm not mistaken).
"There is often a mentality in the workplace that with sufficiently detailed protocols and procedures, the village idiot can perform theoretical physics just as well as Einstein.
In fact, no amount of procedure will make that happen; quite the contrary, all that procedure ensures is that if you ever do hire Einstein, their output will closely resemble that of the village idiot."
- a_square_peg 6y agoOn the other hand, I've seen well-managed organizations that allow a team of competent but not necessarily exceptional group of engineers to accomplish exceptional feats and also the opposite, where a team of exceptional individuals but without any coherent structure led to dismal results.
- tpoacher 6y agoIndeed. In fact, I would think this is in fact supportive, rather than contrarian evidence for that quote, since both are arguments for good management practices that prioritise individual humans and their complex abilities and personalities (whether as individuals or as team players) over abstracted metrics and automated processes.