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People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same. Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible
by mdcds 4y ago
People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same.
Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible units of A are traded for fungible units of B.
- jononomo 4y agoperfect response to what at first sounds like a good idea.
- b20000 4y agoif that is true then why does everyone need to do bullshit coding interviews instead of being hired for their projects and experience, degrees and track record?
- jfrisby 4y agoBecause employers _want_ people to be fungible. The quest to quantify and systematize hiring is a Quixotic effort at solving real challenges, but it persists because nobody has come up with an actual solution.
- b20000 4y agopeople have a long time ago, it’s called a university degree also in the US employment is at will. not happy? fire the person.
- janalsncm 4y agoI don’t want to defend the idea as an actual product too much because I’m mainly interested in it as an experiment. It would be revealing to have a “God’s eye” view of the labor market even if it has an asterisk. If people and jobs were fungible you’d be able to skip the interview process too. I definitely agree that it’s imperfect though. Maybe with some filtering it would be possible to narrow down candidates qualified enough for an interview.