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If 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
by blairbeckwith 5y ago
If 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.