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They need therapy because hiring practices are broken?
by ergonaught 4y ago
They need therapy because hiring practices are broken?
- MaxMatti 4y agoThey need therapy because they let the broken hiring practices get to them.
- cowpig 4y agoMore like broken hiring processes are a fact of life and therapy can help people adapt to the crappier aspects of our existence
- wizzwizz4 4y agoMore like broken processes are something we should rail against, and therapy can help people process the crappier aspects of our existence that we haven't solved yet. (Nobody can work on every problem at once, after all.)
- cowpig 4y agoAt the same time, I have put a ton of thought and effort into my company's hiring process, and still I see people melt down from nervousness or just get into their own head during the pair-programming part interviews. We do everything we can think of to make the process as close to working together on the kind of code that candidates would work on at our company, but ultimately you can't get rid of the fact that someone is being actively assessed as they're working. When I see people are psyching themselves out sometimes I'll ask them if they want to take a little time to get their thoughts together, end the call and come back when they've got a groove going, or reschedule the call. Because people who are in their own heads trying to code while I'm watching them simply cannot put up a fair representation of their abilities. As an interviewer there's only so much I can do to help people with that. I try to take what I perceive as nerves or difficulty when I make a hiring decision, but I've also observed that people who are really struggling in this way in an interview are often going through something in their own lives that ends up interfering with their ability to be effective at work. So it's hard to balance. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that therapy can be beneficial regardless of the brokenness of the hiring process.
- wizzwizz4 4y ago> At the same time, I have put a ton of thought and effort into my company's hiring process, Thanks, but I think there's only so much you can do. Part of the problem seems to be that there's such a thing as a "company hiring process" in the first place. (I don't know how to fix this; most problems seem to get solved by a thousand people making incremental improvements, so you're probably helping regardless.) > So I guess what I'm trying to say is that therapy can be beneficial regardless of the brokenness of the hiring process. This is definitely true. Though: therapy can be expensive, a good therapist is hard to find, and a therapist that works for you can be even harder; so it might not be worth seeking therapy for everyone.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoThe only way we could rail against shitty hiring practices is to basically enact large scale societal reforms. At the moment, corporations are just doing their prerogative and causing massive psychic harm, but that's simply par for the course. It's simply better to cope with how fucked things are then to imagine shit posting on Twitter could change anything (or you can go read socialist theory, but we all get paid huge salaries, so no one really wants to bother with that)
- Existenceblinks 4y agoTherapy is like an expensive paracetamol. In fact, their prescription drug is more dangerous to health than paracetamol.
- atommclain 4y agoWether it's directly applicable or not, I'm reminded of the following quote: It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Jiddu Krishnamurti
- agumonkey 4y agoNo, but because the author thinks she is the problem with intense suffering, even after describing a massive amount of knowledge, practical experience and teamwork abilities. The recruiting process is rotten, that's for sure but it's concerning she's judging herself so harshly. Maybe $parent was a bit harsh.. let's say she needs a lot more friendly support to get her mind out of this pit.
- BubbleRings 4y agoWe actually don't know if the author is male or female, it is a guest post on that blog. And actually, we don't even know if the blog itself is really written by Gail, since someone just posted that _they_ are the real Gail and it wasn't written by her.
- Rury 4y agoThey need therapy, because they need to stop unnecessarily blaming themselves for things they have little control over (e.g broken hiring practices). They need to divide their ego from what externally happens to them, and instead build it upon what they stand for (something which can't be defined/destroyed by the external). They need to stop focusing solely at their failures and misfortunes, and acknowledge that other people often face the very same or similar problems, and even had successes were others have failed.