"Provide evidence." For better or for worse, that's what's so frustrating about hiring/interviewing.
"Provide evidence." For better or for worse, that's what's so frustrating about hiring/interviewing. I pay my taxes. I drive the speed limit. I never cheated in high school or college. I signed up for the Selective Service. When I see trash on the ground, I pick it up. I keep off the grass. Yet when talking to a potential employer, I magically become this shifty-eyed drifter, whose every word is suspect. "Interviewer: But how many years of walnut do you have? Carpenter: Gosh, I really don't know -- was I supposed to be counting the walnut? " ( http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650... ) The "carpenter" thought he was just doing work. What he didn't realize was that a career in technology means always preparing for when you're next put on trial. I get it, of course. Programmers are expensive and have a ramp-up time, firing is hard so it pays to be cautious when hiring, etc. But the net effect, the defaulting to the conclusion that an interviewee is lying or stupid, is toxic.
Posted by dropit_sphere on Apr 18, 2015, 8:42 PM
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Yeah PC was a horrible platform before Win2k, but there was a beautiful short time period when we had alternatives like Amiga, Atari, NeX...
Living in a 200+ year old house, I've seen a lot of this first-hand through both planned and unplanned renovations and repairs.
Is anything with the pebble time able to capture heart rate for historical data analysis?
Datastar has evolved into a suite of tools [1].
> real issue is that MSG is basically a public utility.
Everything good is a slippery slope: every step in the right direction is bad if you overshoot.
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"Provide evidence." For better or for worse, that's what's so frustrating about hiring/interviewing.
"Provide evidence." For better or for worse, that's what's so frustrating about hiring/interviewing. I pay my taxes. I drive the speed limit. I never cheated in high school or college. I signed up for the Selective Service. When I see trash on the ground, I pick it up. I keep off the grass. Yet when talking to a potential employer, I magically become this shifty-eyed drifter, whose every word is suspect. "Interviewer: But how many years of walnut do you have? Carpenter: Gosh, I really don't know -- was I supposed to be counting the walnut? " ( http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650... ) The "carpenter" thought he was just doing work. What he didn't realize was that a career in technology means always preparing for when you're next put on trial. I get it, of course. Programmers are expensive and have a ramp-up time, firing is hard so it pays to be cautious when hiring, etc. But the net effect, the defaulting to the conclusion that an interviewee is lying or stupid, is toxic.
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