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The point was that current interview processes have no mechanism for measuring the second sort of individual. They don't have a way to measure tenacity and the
by noonespecial 14y ago
The point was that current interview processes have no mechanism for measuring the second sort of individual. They don't have a way to measure tenacity and the uncanny knack of discovering the best way to do something when starting from ignorance(1).
tl;dr: A Google-like company would not have hired (someone like) Woz.
(1) Its double-hard because there are no shortage of people with tenacity who have the knack for doing things in a terrible way over and over. They all think they're in the former category.
- adambard 14y agoI find Github has helped with this problem a lot.
- noonespecial 14y agoI actually think this is the solution. Nothing would be more impressive than a python project that started out as a "c++ witten in python" project that barely worked but then evolved into a well managed project full of best practices in a matter of weeks. I'd hire that person to do nearly anything. Sadly, not many interview processes are hip to github yet.