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I live in Silicon Valley so I have tons of Software Engineer friends. I also have a friend who's a heart surgery researcher at Stanford. When we talk about our
by msoad 12y ago
I live in Silicon Valley so I have tons of Software Engineer friends. I also have a friend who's a heart surgery researcher at Stanford. When we talk about our hiring process he just laughs and thinks its impossible to do something remotely close what we do in Software in their field. It seems Software is the only field that people have to do some serious work for the interviews.
- bshimmin 12y agoI guess you find out pretty quickly whether someone's a competent heart surgeon.
- swatow 12y agoMaybe they should. Studies have found that ratings of a surgeon skill based on a video recordings of surgery, are predictive of patient outcomes[0]. The problem with associating prestige and respect with not stooping to being tested, is that testing can be useful and necessary. http://psnet.ahrq.gov/resource.aspx?resourceID=26950 http://psnet.ahrq.gov/resource.aspx?resourceID=26950