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I could imagine that those sorts of people, the ones who let interviews go to their head, the ones who feel the need to impose their will on the interviewee and
by tobz 12y ago
I could imagine that those sorts of people, the ones who let interviews go to their head, the ones who feel the need to impose their will on the interviewee and the interview process, are likely to cause problems with the candidate if he/she is hired.
Have you seen people who mesh perfectly well but go to hell in a handbasket when you throw them in an interview? It feels like that is something, however arbitrary and difficult to test, that you'd catch when you interview these people - avoid anyone whose fitment is questionable at all, and that your statement is merely a byproduct of not catching these bad interviewers before you extended them an offer.
- tptacek 12y agoYes. 2 of our 3 best hires in the last 18 months were extremely awkward in interviews, so much so that we had to carefully edit out negative feedback that obviously derived from the candidate's discomfort in the interview. My thesis is that practically all software developers are bad interviewers. I'm not suggesting that there are a couple bad apples that turn into tyrants during interviewers, but rather that the interview process is a vector that pushes software developers into a subtly bad place, in a Stanley Milgram sort of way.