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23
The Truth About Interviews
Filed Under Programming
Amen:
Really, interviews are little more than a thinly disguised popularity contest. Who would the interviewers most want to spend time with? If a workplace can actually admit that’s their hiring process and it’s done right, this is actually a pretty good way to recruit people. After all, why hire people you can’t stand to be around?
But hardly anyone admits this. So you end up with this standard way of doing interviews with more or less standard questions because of course this will produce standardised results. Except it doesn’t. Interviewers ask stupid questions, interviewees lie in response and interviewers make an arbitrary decision. And so the world keeps turning.
When I used to interview I always wanted to type up a few pages and hand it over at the beginning of the interview and say “This answers every possible question you are going to ask me in the next 15 minutes”. Of course I would not have gotten any jobs just strange stares.