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On the other hand, "they would not have been a good fit" sounds suspiciously like a blanket, non-falsifiable denial of failure. I other words, bullshit.
by kspacewalk2 5y ago
On the other hand, "they would not have been a good fit" sounds suspiciously like a blanket, non-falsifiable denial of failure. I other words, bullshit.
- chaosharmonic 5y agoSee also: "you don't have enough experience," one which I most recently heard myself after four interviews and a technical assessment, in which my (passing) solution included a bugfix to the test itself.
- sosborn 5y agoIs it bullshit if it is true? Hiring the wrong fit can bring a team down.
- kspacewalk2 5y agoIt's not bullshit if it's true. It can be true, or it can be bullshit. Which makes it such an awesome bullshit excuse.
- kovac 5y ago"Culture fit" has become like the currency of recruitment. Supposedly what you may have to pay with for a potentially great engineer (technically) about whom the hiring team didn't feel comfortable with. I think the original question is a great one. Do we actually put these intuitions to the test?