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Your interviewing process is broken when it comes to those with line-of-business backgrounds.

Your interviewing process is broken when it comes to those with line-of-business backgrounds. The type of work those people do can sound like "project management", when in fact it is evidence of the "most valuable" programming skill, organizing complexity [1]. Reducing reliance on resumes is less useful when the same "someone like me" and algorithm-knowledge biases still seep through. [1]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/06/18/most-important-skil...

Posted by bmh100 on Jun 25, 2015, 8:53 PM

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Your interviewing process is broken when it comes to those with line-of-business backgrounds.

bmh100Jun 25, 2015, 8:53 PM

Your interviewing process is broken when it comes to those with line-of-business backgrounds. The type of work those people do can sound like "project management", when in fact it is evidence of the "most valuable" programming skill, organizing complexity [1]. Reducing reliance on resumes is less useful when the same "someone like me" and algorithm-knowledge biases still seep through. [1]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/06/18/most-important-skil...

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