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Everyone works like this, perceptions are virtually indistinguishable from reality. Lawyers, Investment Banks and Consultancies can be gamed by going to the rig
by fleitz 15y ago
Everyone works like this, perceptions are virtually indistinguishable from reality. Lawyers, Investment Banks and Consultancies can be gamed by going to the right school. The startup ecosystem can be gamed by committing to the right open source projects. It's just as important that you wear a good suit to meet with MBA types as it is that you wear the appropriate t-shirt and jeans to meet with hacker types.
Merit, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- gwern 15y agoYou should look at the first comment. Not 'everyone works like this', some fields can do perfectly meritocratic hiring. (Heck, nothing says that the subjects of the survey couldn't do hiring a little more systematically and not completely ad hoc.)
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- krakensden 15y agoYou really don't see any difference between guessing the value of a lawyer by unrelated extracurriculars and guessing the value of a developer by work on relevant open source projects?
- fleitz 15y agoYour question presumes that the extracurriculars are unrelated and that the open source projects are related. In that particular case I'd agree with you. However, I don't presume that the average programmer can anymore discern what open source projects are relevant, than the average lawyer can discern what extracurriculars are unrelated. I think in the particular case of law pro-bono cases and amicus curiae briefs would be more appropriate to juxtapose with open source contributions. Similarly, depending on what field of law you want to go into and what types of people you want to work with as a lawyer you'd pick your pro-bono work with similar rigor to open source project selection if the end goal was career advancement.