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The answer to your question is in a previous HN link: http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unluc
by madrox 14y ago
The answer to your question is in a previous HN link: http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people
Say you have 50 people, all of whom are capable of doing the job. You have to whittle that number down somehow. Might as well find a problem only 1 in 50 could answer.
- Tloewald 14y agoOf course this was given as an example of how NOT to select engineers.
- jakejake 14y agoProblem being that in programming you don't have 50 candidates to choose from. At the moment things seem to greatly favor the candidates rather than employers. As a programmer I really like this, but as somebody who hires programmers it makes things difficult!