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People undervalue other people’s skills and contributions and overvalue their own skills and contributions. I notice this more and more in hiring process. Team
by akg_67 5y ago
People undervalue other people’s skills and contributions and overvalue their own skills and contributions.
I notice this more and more in hiring process. Teams expecting new member to perfect fit wrt hard skills over soft skills. Frankly, hard skills can be taught, soft skills can’t be taught and take long time to modify behavior.
- pm90 5y agoI haven’t been able to articulate it as succinctly as you did, but this is so true and Ive used the principle to push for many hires who didn’t do so hot in their technical round. If a person is excited about technology and is familiar with translating ideas into code, that’s really all that I’m really looking for. Writing good code, understanding OS, networking etc are things that can be looked up and learned by people who are motivated to do so… there are so many resources to learn from. One caveat here is that for “senior” hires, the expectation is opposite: not that they write perfect idiomatic code, but they’re able to write solutions. I think the practice of less technical interviews for higher level seems somewhat paradoxical: you want your Software architects and Principal Engineers to be able to code with a degree of competence.
- tomp 5y agoAs someone who studies math (one pf the hardest skills), no, sometimes skills just can’t be taught. Some people just don’t get it. Unfortunate, but that’s the way it is.
- akg_67 5y agoYou can teach someone math who already graduated with basic science degree in much shorter time than it will take to teach a math whiz to consider opinions from someone else’s point of view.