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I think everyone who's complaining about how the developer shortage is fake should spend some time sitting on the other side of the interview table. Author's fa

I think everyone who's complaining about how the developer shortage is fake should spend some time sitting on the other side of the interview table. Author's faith in people's innate goodness won't last beyond the 3rd interview/screen. I've been on both sides of bad interviews: sometimes it's a mismatch, or the interviewee is having a bad day, but sometimes, the interviewee is just bad. Filtering out bad candidates are the best outcome, the absolute worst time-sink for everyone involved is getting a bad hire. In a past life, I joined an organization, and my cohort included a bonafide conman with no prior experience, or requisite skill. The man could talk himself into (or out of) anything. It took a surprisingly long time for the team to realize he was getting other team members to do his work for him in the guise of "needing help" (several weeks).

Cheecheepoopoo 5y ago
> The man could talk himself into (or out of) anything Why is he in the tech industry?
- sangnoir 5y ago
  I doubt he's still in industry, but my guess was it provided good, "easy" money while he was laying low for previous misdeeds. When I said "bonafide conman" - I meant he was using a fake identity and was quite literally on the run. The police got in touch with the org not too long afterwards asking after him - he was re-using an alias the police knew, and his employment/background-check likely popped him right back onto their radar. The police had wanted to set up a sting operation, but found no takers on staff - his alleged past crimes were linked to organized crime, so I can't say if the fears were overblown.