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If you're unable to give someone your full attention for such an important occasion, why on earth would an interviewer expect you to perform well at any task. R

• nawitus 13y ago
  The problem with recruiting and the interview process is that very little hard data on anything. People just guesstimate everything. If we assume that young people are about as good as old people (when they were as young and experienced), then the most plausible expalantion is that there has simply been a change on social convention. Some young people apparently have learned the social etiquette that it can be okay to text during discourse without it being rude. Social etiquette evolves and there's a clash of values. If the interviewer was as young as the interviewee, maybe there wouldn't be any problems with the texting.