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The quotes on incompetent was missing. If someone's set at a place and proves to be "incompetent" in another setting their family is better off if they never s
by hawk_ 4y ago
The quotes on incompetent was missing. If someone's set at a place and proves to be "incompetent" in another setting their family is better off if they never switched the job in the first place. Hiring someone with 5/10+ years of experience for example and firing them after trial is a worse outcome for most people than not having had them make the switch in the first place if it was avoidable.
- lapcat 4y agoThis is conflating 2 different situations: (1) Competent programmer who isn't a good fit for a particular job. (2) Incompetent programmer, the "can't code, can't even write a for loop" bogeyman that seems to scare everyone. Coding interviews — whiteboarding, take-home projects, and the like — are intended to filter out (2). But they aren't good at filtering out (1). (1) can always occur. There's not a great way of avoiding that until they actually get on the job. Of course it's unpleasant to fire somehow who doesn't work out, but I don't see how take-home assignments are supposed to help here with (1). Whereas the (2) people shouldn't be in the industry at all, and they're lucky to somehow scam someone into giving them a job, but the industry should not be financially supporting scammers or their families. I'm personally not convinced that (2) is as big a group as many people believe it is.