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Ah I see I'm a snowflake for not liking the power imbalance and irrelevance of this sort of thing. TBH I'd just have found it contrived and boring. I wouldn't
by nprateem 4y ago
Ah I see I'm a snowflake for not liking the power imbalance and irrelevance of this sort of thing.
TBH I'd just have found it contrived and boring. I wouldn't be excited to have colleagues who couldn't just talk about normal stuff at lunch.
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- robocat 4y agoI think you are reading too much into the story. One reason for the lunch is to try and relax a bit and test “cultural fit”, which is more like a blind date between two people to see if there is any spark. Ideally it is a two way conversation, where the candidate and the interviewers get to judge each other. There is a problem where cultural fit “tests” are heavily biased against minorities - for example most any sports discussion is dominated by your social class. Enjoying brain teasers matches a particular type of geek, and the discussion likely veered or was encouraged in that direction by the candidate. It wasn’t Machiavellian, which perhaps you are more responsive to?
- nprateem 4y agoIf that's how you've learnt to understand empathy, then sure, I guess I must be