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Ironic since this is wasting interviewers' time, making your own ethics questionable.
by m00x 5y ago
Ironic since this is wasting interviewers' time, making your own ethics questionable.
- haliskerbas 5y agoSometimes you just have to play the game of capitalism.
- blairbeckwith 5y agoIf you view every minute an interviewer is doing actual work as harmful to the world, then wasting said interviewers time would be even more of an ethical good would it not?
- legostormtroopr 5y agoThis also assumes that the interviewee has the "right" ethics. From their perspective, yes wasting time in an interview is ethically good to them. But outsiders may agree with the interviewers ethics, and would see wasting their time as unethical.
- jonathankoren 5y agoI know this wasn’t your point, but I’d like to call out the common assumption that interviewing isn’t “actual work”. It is. Recruiting, interviewing, mentoring, all of that is just as important as shipping code.
- boardwaalk 5y agoI don’t think that was the assumption here. They were saying that interviewing someone who doesn’t want the job isn’t actual (useful) work in the sense it can’t produce the goal (a good hire).
- gumby 5y agoSo you could frame that commenter's activity as providing interviewing practice to the company's employees...for free!
- andrei_says_ 5y agoThis is a very interesting take on activism.
- ineedasername 5y agoDepends on your perspective. Making an unethical company less productive isn't necessarily unethical in itself.
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- crooked-v 5y agoThat only holds if you assume that "good" ethics must include being nice to everyone all the time.
- mhh__ 5y ago"Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy."
- powersnail 5y agoThe interviewer uses work time to interview, so they still get paid for their time. It wastes the company's resources, but not the interviewer's.
- boardwaalk 5y ago… and I’m sure all the programmers on dead end projects out there feel great too!