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The old "I stopped reading at ..." routine is pretty annoying even in the best of circumstances, but particularly so when the basis of the complaint is misinter
by jsnell 11y ago
The old "I stopped reading at ..." routine is pretty annoying even in the best of circumstances, but particularly so when the basis of the complaint is misinterpreting the article. There is no implication made in the article about only Facebook/Google engineers being "good". There is however exactly the opposite implication being made about both the definition of "good", and how this kind of credentialism is a structural issue. Too bad you stopped reading before getting there.
- rnovak 11y agoIn an article claiming that finding candidates is harder than filtering candidates, her first point ends by saying "hey, you could just crawl all the job sites for people who work for Google/Facebook and went to MIT". How no one gets the implication there is beyond me, but reading further just reinforces it. Secondly, if it's a structural issue, creating a new startup based around technical-recruiting is absurdly pointless. If it's structural, your startup is going to accomplish _absolutely nothing_, because it's just going to keep sending in safe candidates, in favor of qualified candidates.
- leeny 11y agoAuthor here. I get why you parsed it the way you did. I guess what I was going for is that conventional wisdom dictates that those candidates are the good ones, and I was using that as kind of a hyperbolized thought experiment. I do NOT agree that pedigree is a good predictor of aptitude. I even did a bunch of research around this. Check out http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hiring-data/ http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hi...
- andrewstuart 11y ago"I stopped reading at" considered harmful.