[lbo-talk] a bitch needs to fan herself

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 2/17/07, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> joanna wrote:
> > You make them persuade you. This is what persuades them that they want
> > you. All subtly, of course.
> > You are supremely at ease. An interview is an acting job.
>
> Which is exactly why job interviews are such a pathetic method for
> hiring people.  We have decades of evidence that interview performance
> has no correlation with actual job performance in most fields, but we
> carry out this cultural ritual of job interviews to "make sure" the
> applicant is the "right person" for the job.  It's a bloody waste of time.

Respectfully, I'm not so sure this conclusion is correct, from the
perspective of a corporation.

You may be interested in Joel Spolsky's "Guerilla Guide to Interviewing."
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html>

Personally, I advise businesses to maybe offer a puzzle to candidates
applying for a programming position. Nothing stressful; email them
some (time-respecting, relatively simple) programming puzzles and ask
them to maybe solve one of them. (After all, would you hire a juggler
without seeing them juggle?)

Of course, I'm not wearing my radical hat right now. Where I'd argue
that the system is rotten to the core. And attempt to offer
alternatives.

Tayssir