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Filtering out people based on a question about the blogs they read sounds kind of horrible. You'll get all noise and no signal. I spend some time on HN and oth
by jstx1 5y ago
Filtering out people based on a question about the blogs they read sounds kind of horrible. You'll get all noise and no signal.
I spend some time on HN and other places reading about stuff related to my field or about software in general. If you asked me that question, I would have zero chance recalling the last things I read. And it would raise a big red flag about whether you know what you're doing.
Just because you're filtering some people out, doesn't mean that your filter is good.
- saimiam 5y agoI also discuss the posts they read and shared with me during the interview. If they’re simply sharing random posts without understanding it in context, it becomes obvious very quickly. This seems to work to filter out people who don’t like their work enough to read anything related to it and people who like to fake their way thru such tasks by sharing the first three Medium articles they find on the homepage. What makes you question the “knows what they are doing” abilities of someone asking you to name three posts they liked? Is it any different from asking someone what algos they like and why?
- cutemonster 5y agoAlso, getting good blog post suggestions seems nice :-) I imagine starting the interview with talking about one of the blog posts can be a good "warming up" / getting to know each other thing