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I hear you and if we were talking about poor people interviewing for retail and warehouse jobs I'd agree with you completely. However we are talking about tech

I hear you and if we were talking about poor people interviewing for retail and warehouse jobs I'd agree with you completely. However we are talking about tech jobs which pay several hundred thousand dollars per year in many cases, and these jobs require a certain level of connectivity, not out of gatekeeping but out of practicality.

dredmorbius 5y ago
Poor people don't interview for tech jobs?
- phantomathkg 5y ago
  They surely can, but if the interviewee knows his current setup from his/her existing income means the connection may not be stable. The interviewee can * Email upfront to inform about the situation * Trying to go to other places with more stable connectivity. and others. As xyzelement said, an interviewer, which I am as well, evaluate multiple signals at the sametime, how resourceful, or how the candidate solve a problem, is one of the soft skill that is required.
  - JshWright 5y ago
    Yeah, I would be hard pressed to come up with something that I wouldn't be more than happy to accommodate if a candidate emailed ahead of time to let me know.
thrashh 5y ago
Are you hiring programmers or IT tech support personnel? It’s like naming someone that doesn’t know anything about cars who hears some strange noises coming from the car as “unresourceful” because they don’t magically know what to Google to figure out their problem. Even that person makes $500k/year does not magically give them all the background knowledge needed to start troubleshooting.
- xyzelement 5y ago
  Flawed analogy. If I am reliant on my car for a living (eg limo driver) then I can't let my car not work. Doesn't mean I need to fix it myself, does mean I need to find a mechanic, trade it in, whatever. Resolve the problem in some way.
  - thrashh 5y ago
    No, it’s analogous to your car making this weird sound but it seems to largely work so you haven’t figured it out yet but you’re still driving people around.

dredmorbius 5y ago

Poor people don't interview for tech jobs?

phantomathkg 5y ago
They surely can, but if the interviewee knows his current setup from his/her existing income means the connection may not be stable. The interviewee can * Email upfront to inform about the situation * Trying to go to other places with more stable connectivity. and others. As xyzelement said, an interviewer, which I am as well, evaluate multiple signals at the sametime, how resourceful, or how the candidate solve a problem, is one of the soft skill that is required.
- JshWright 5y ago
  Yeah, I would be hard pressed to come up with something that I wouldn't be more than happy to accommodate if a candidate emailed ahead of time to let me know.

thrashh 5y ago

Are you hiring programmers or IT tech support personnel? It’s like naming someone that doesn’t know anything about cars who hears some strange noises coming from the car as “unresourceful” because they don’t magically know what to Google to figure out their problem. Even that person makes $500k/year does not magically give them all the background knowledge needed to start troubleshooting.

xyzelement 5y ago
Flawed analogy. If I am reliant on my car for a living (eg limo driver) then I can't let my car not work. Doesn't mean I need to fix it myself, does mean I need to find a mechanic, trade it in, whatever. Resolve the problem in some way.
- thrashh 5y ago
  No, it’s analogous to your car making this weird sound but it seems to largely work so you haven’t figured it out yet but you’re still driving people around.