Comment by maccard
14 hours ago
The question isn’t should we use gsuite, it’s can we talk about a tech problem. If you don’t understand that you’ve failed the interview.
14 hours ago
The question isn’t should we use gsuite, it’s can we talk about a tech problem. If you don’t understand that you’ve failed the interview.
and if you don't understand my position then you've failed to interview. Some people just seek reasons to disqualify candidates and I think that's a pretty basic approach to interviewing. Remember, we all have a cognitive bias to hire ourselves and part of improving interviewing process is about trying to mitigate that by creating an environment where the interviewee can show the best of themselves, which may not necessarily reflect our own strengths. This is why pop quiz questions are kinda crap and while 1337code is better, its still kinda crap
If the interview goes:
> What would you do if two different people were emailing a spreadsheet back and forth to track something?
> I’d use google sheets
> Excellent answer, that is what I would do as well, now what if we wanted to build it in-house?"
> Well I would probably go home and work on my resume because that's a fool's errand.
I’ve not failed to interview. The candidate has been a jerk. Could I have asked a better question? Sure. Could the candidate not have sneered at it and thrown a strop - definitely.