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What seems objectionable to me, is that in order for Vlad to find people that are "cool" he's wasting everyone else's time. This isn't exactly the same as if I
by jxjnskkzxxhx 1y ago
What seems objectionable to me, is that in order for Vlad to find people that are "cool" he's wasting everyone else's time.
This isn't exactly the same as if I give people a test on their ability. It's different. In here you pass if you did something that scores well in a metric that you're not told about. It's not very different than if I gave you a take home assignment which is just literally "code something - you have to be good at ambiguity!" Joking, you just have to guess the thing I had in mind. It's very inconsiderate to people, and doesn't tell me anything good about this Vlad person.
- saagarjha 1y agoI think it's very reasonable to expect that there should be better communication here about this actually being a combination culture-fit-and-coding assessment. But I don't actually think it's fair to say that nobody is told about the metric. It's pretty clear to me. I think a lot of other people here also understood it (which makes sense, because they're all Hacker News brained). I agree that this sucks if you don't "get" it but I'm not entirely sure if there is a good way to convey this. Maybe they shouldn't be looking for this at all but that's a separate discussion.