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> Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure. I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely f

> Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure. I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely free from stress - you want somebody reliable who will take that in their stride, you don't want someone who will buckle when things get difficult. I'm all for in-person live collaborative problem solving, be it on a whiteboard or just a discussion. You see first-hand exactly what the person has in their memory, their problem solving techniques, how quickly they get things, their communication skills, and yes, their ability to work under pressure. If done correctly and collaboratively, you get a dry-run of a real design meeting and have some feeling of what it would be like to work with the person.

rootsofallevil 2y ago
> I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely free from stress - you want somebody reliable who will take that in their stride, you don't want someone who will buckle when things get difficult. Some people experience extraordinary high levels of stress in an interview setting. From your comment, I suspect that you are not one of them and might have trouble imagining what these levels of stress feel like.
- RadiozRadioz 2y ago
  Fair enough. I don't want to be mean, but I wonder, if they are the type of person to experience this in interviews, what other situations would set them off in a similar way? It won't be everything, but I'll bet there's some comorbidity; there is a combination of stressors in an interview setting that triggers them, where else can these occur? From my experience, there is more overlap with people who generally let stress get to them, than people who are solely stressed out by interviews specifically and nothing else. I have a relative like this. They struggle in interviews due to stress, they also struggle in exams due to stress. That's two things, I don't want to be surprised by the third at a critical and stressful time in my team.

rootsofallevil 2y ago

> I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely free from stress - you want somebody reliable who will take that in their stride, you don't want someone who will buckle when things get difficult. Some people experience extraordinary high levels of stress in an interview setting. From your comment, I suspect that you are not one of them and might have trouble imagining what these levels of stress feel like.

RadiozRadioz 2y ago
Fair enough. I don't want to be mean, but I wonder, if they are the type of person to experience this in interviews, what other situations would set them off in a similar way? It won't be everything, but I'll bet there's some comorbidity; there is a combination of stressors in an interview setting that triggers them, where else can these occur? From my experience, there is more overlap with people who generally let stress get to them, than people who are solely stressed out by interviews specifically and nothing else. I have a relative like this. They struggle in interviews due to stress, they also struggle in exams due to stress. That's two things, I don't want to be surprised by the third at a critical and stressful time in my team.