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Offering the contrarian view: Why not just take a picture? If you're interviewing so many people that there's a genuine risk of forgetting who is who, a pictur
by stickfigure 5y ago
Offering the contrarian view:
Why not just take a picture? If you're interviewing so many people that there's a genuine risk of forgetting who is who, a picture seems useful. I'm sure I'm not the only person who will forget your name in 3.5 seconds but never forgets a face.
Maybe this is my time at Pivotal speaking, but your first day on any team you get your picture taken with a polaroid. It goes on the pairing board. It's not weird.
"Thank you for interviewing with us! Mind if we take a picture so we can keep our who's who straight when the team is making the decision?"
All that jazz with IDs sounds unfriendly, sure. A snap isn't. Hell, make it a selfie with a team member.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoThat’ll work… until they have the actual candidate take the interview with someone coaching them offscreen. Edge cases!
- evilduck 5y agoThat seems like it would be incredibly hard to perform convincingly and if you could, you've found your true calling in hosting/announcing/commentating live events not sucking at software gigs.
- Huffers2 5y agoMy wife interviewed someone who tried it (she noticed), so people at least do attempt this.
- dredmorbius 5y agoPhoto-ID cards are reasonably common at many organisations, and are part of the on-boarding process. Less so in smaller start-ups, but part of the process. If you don't have ID cards, they could be part of, say, a company directory, wiki, or other system. This isn't inherently adversarial and can be integrated into proceedures reasonably smoothly.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoMake a photo id for everybody you interview?
- dredmorbius 5y agoIf issued for a day pass, possibly. Again, this fits into workflows and isn't directly confrontational, but does preserve a record for comparison.
- stevage 5y agoI think in this case it was all remote. But yeah, I don't think it would be that hard to add protection against this fraud in ways the candidate wouldn't even notice.
- gilbetron 5y agoEven easier, just take a screenshot.
- Grustaf 5y agoI guess the point was that they are not interviewing enough people for there to be any risk. This was just a fluke.
- wing-_-nuts 5y agoThis is what we do. We literally take a screenshot when interviewing a candidate and ask them to turn on their cameras during meetings (at least the first week or so)