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Well, it’s a good thing Amazon’s hiring process managed to filter out someone who could do the job they were hiring for, but not the job they weren’t hiring for
by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Well, it’s a good thing Amazon’s hiring process managed to filter out someone who could do the job they were hiring for, but not the job they weren’t hiring for. That’s some top notch hiring practices right there.
- sverhagen 3y agoI'm ESL myself, and I sympathize because I also don't find it easy always to communicate with ESL people from yet other native languages. But as for the niche optimization problem, don't you think that the Amazon folks would say: this candidate was not able to think on their feet and think outside of the box, when given a non-standard problem? I think hiring teams over-estimate how far they can push the envelope on that in an interview, but I find it a bit one-sided to assume that the question was outside of the job they were hiring for or that it was a malicious question.
- matt3210 3y agoI’m not ESL but I still can’t communicate with people that have very very thick accents.
- im_down_w_otp 3y agoI’m sure they have a lot of rationalizations and just default inertia around various practices. Could the interviewer successfully answer a niche question proposed by the interviewee? If they can’t, should they forfeit their job to the person they’re interviewing?