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In the Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder relates how toward the end of the development of the Nova that Data General started rejecting applicants who had anyth
by kwhitefoot 5y ago
In the Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder relates how toward the end of the development of the Nova that Data General started rejecting applicants who had anything computer related as a hobby or spare time interest. If memory serves, they believed on the basis of experience that people with a broader range of interests were better team players and more resilient to burn out.
- skeeter2020 5y agoWhile this may be technically accurate, the rest of the descriptions on how they interviewed & hired was brutally narrow-minded and biased. You're missing the part where they basically didn't hire anyone with a life outside of computing because you were being hired for an all-consuming death march.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoNo, I didn't miss that point. That was the reason they finally changed their opinion.