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This sort of stuff is meant to leave the anarchists and the rule benders out of the company. Its requires certain psychological threats to by guided to memoriz
by oscargrouch 6y ago
This sort of stuff is meant to leave the anarchists and the rule benders out of the company.
Its requires certain psychological threats to by guided to memorize and do all this stuff.
I bet a lot of people with the actual right skills would not pass into those exams.
It reminds me if a great lesson from the prince from Maquiavel, where he speaks about what sort of soldiers should be used and say that the mercenary soldiers should be the last resort, because giving they do not really believe into what they are doing, in the battle field they wont make the best soldiers.
Well, the filtering here will optimize for people willing to force themselves into this for a good salary, of course they can by chance get the passionate type, but they are not optimizing for it, and that's the point.
I rather work with people that are passionate about it, they are the ones that do the "impossible" things because they dont just do what they are told.
And this kind of people will at a certain point in their lives have nothing to show. But the curious, the creative, the people that learn fast, that are always hungry how can a company get them through this?
- triceratops 6y agoThe big tech companies' hiring needs are so massive they'd go out of business if they relied on hiring only "passionate" people who are up to their standard.