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The evidence simply does not support present hiring methodologies as predictive of successful business outcomes. Therefore, you should hire and invest in people
by brobdingnagian 11y ago
The evidence simply does not support present hiring methodologies as predictive of successful business outcomes. Therefore, you should hire and invest in people who need jobs. The reason the increasingly widely accepted status quo of interview processes continues is essentially due to confirmation bias: companies want you to feel like you are part of a special, select team. In reality, we are not that much different from each other. The evidence suggests hiring people who need jobs and dispensing with the bs.
- w1ntermute 11y agoOne of the cruelest ironies of the post-recession hiring environment has been how companies are much more interested in hiring those who are already employed.
- norseboar 11y agoWhere is the evidence that present hiring methodologies don't predict successful business outcomes? I recall seeing evidence re: resumes, but not on the overall process itself [1]. If this data is present (data showing that present hiring methodologies don't predict successful business outcomes), do you have data showing that hiring people who need jobs is any better? We /are/ different from each other -- as an example so obvious it borders on the ridiculous, people who have been programming for ten years will be much faster at it than people who haven't. At what point do you draw the line to state that people stop being different? If so, what data did you use to draw that line? [1] http://blog.alinelerner.com/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/ http://blog.alinelerner.com/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/
- ryanSrich 11y agoJust one instance. https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 , I've seen hundreds like this.
- quadrature 11y agoHonestly, if you weren't in the room you can't tell what happened. It's just as likely that he wasn't a good culture fit.
- ryanSrich 11y ago"Cultural fit" - I forgot this term existed outside of the HBO television show "Silicon Valley".
- brobdingnagian 11y agoIt's a nice catchall phrase for all kinds of discrimination that would be illegal if stated explicitly. If we call it a gut feeling or culture fit, it's suddenly legal.
- yarou 11y agoCannot ++ you enough. In my experience, people prefer to surround themselves with those similar to them. The same holds true for any software organization.
- quadrature 11y agoIt is important to work with people who are you are comfortable working with.
- w1ntermute 11y agoJust as it was important to people in the pre-1960s southern US that their children only go to school with children whose families they were "comfortable with." Somehow, they've since (somewhat) figured out how to adjust to their discomfort.
- brobdingnagian 11y agoI understand the paradigm paralysis - we have been led to believe that having the best CS zombies in the world is what makes success, but it's just not true. Meanwhile, jobs aren't filled and the people who need them are suffering.