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@TeachMeCode Being good at interviews with non-technical people
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@ArtOfBBQ no, in my case, not that I know of. Apparently he impressed management on the interview, but I still don't understand how he did it.
Also I don't get why management wants one of the team to be present at the interview and assess the guy and then shits all over their professional assessment. 🤷 -
@tunneler Humans gonna human. Asking for advice or input is kind of a social ritual sometimes, similar to people asking 'how are you' not actually wanting a story about how you are. Almost no one ever actually changes their opinion because others' input
Most people are impressed when they see the traits they like about themselves in someone else. So managers may have been impressed by him because he gave some standard manager answers to behavioral questions or something like that. Maybe he told a story about saving the day by delegating someone, lol. They probably didn't even try to assess his engineering skill. How could they?
I know it's brutal if you're on the wrong end but that's the world we live in - people make huge hiring decisions after talking to someone for 15 minutes based on their gut feeling. If you can sell yourself in those 15 minutes the monetary payoff is huge. -
@tunneler Idk maybe cramming works sometime. Just learn 10-15 questions and programs and you are good to go.
This happened a couple months ago, but I wanted to share this one, since it still baffles me.
We were hiring and had this weird candidate. The team said no to the guy after the interview, management still hired him and pressured us to train him, which cost us tons of hours we had to somehow squeeze in during a hot phase of our project.
After almost 3.5 weeks training he had to hand in a small component. What he handed in was brainlessly duplicated, half of the stuff in there wasn't even used, the other half wasn't working properly. At the review we asked questions about the code he handed in - he could not answer one of them.
We then had a big argument with management to let the guy go, which they eventually unhappily agreed to.
The icing on that cake of a story: Turns out, the guy was hired as a senior dev with a way higher paycheck than most of the devs on the team. Wtf?!
rant
management sucks
management logic
not so senior