Should technical interviews be done behind a screen?

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PleasingFungus: Oct 10, 2012; idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

Doc Block posted:

old apartment has old carpet, film at 11

Doc Block posted:

update your yospos.numbers, doc block wears lovely clothes on monday nights while sitting around in his old apartment

ur gettin real nettled by some weak-rear end burns, doc. gotta step up ur game

# ? Mar 3, 2015 06:30

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# ? May 17, 2024 04:39

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

yeah, real men don't sweat living in cum stained squalor.

# ? Mar 3, 2015 06:30

.lnk to the past: May 3, 2005; psoting while drunk

are they going to work behind a screen for the entirety of the job? because if they're sexist/racist enough to discriminate during hiring, they'll probably treat you pretty lovely when you start working there

# ? Mar 3, 2015 09:45

crusader_complex: Jun 4, 2012

poty posted:

that guy is coming through the screen

# ? Mar 3, 2015 10:32

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

doc block is ok in my book you dudes are being desperate

# ? Mar 3, 2015 10:43

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

.lnk to the past posted:

are they going to work behind a screen for the entirety of the job? because if they're sexist/racist enough to discriminate during hiring, they'll probably treat you pretty lovely when you start working there

u shuld read blink.

# ? Mar 3, 2015 13:43

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Most people don't conciousley deskrimanate.

Ceos are hired based on height, warren hardy was elected because he looked presidential, etc. One candidate can at first glance look more programmerly or less programmerly and its going to change how you approach the entire interview whether you want to admit you pathetic frontal lobe is controlled by ur lizard brain or not.

# ? Mar 3, 2015 13:51

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

I thought nah, can't be true. Then I introspected after I looked at a picture of the todo.txt author.

# ? Mar 3, 2015 13:53

Phobeste: Apr 9, 2006; never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

the reason music auditions are behind a screen is because you have to mostly care about how good the person is playing the instrument and nothing else counts. with development, interpersonal interactions are at least as important as coding skill, for a sustainable business. if you want to reduce unconscious discrimination, have a more diverse group interview the candidate. if you don't have a diverse group then you're loving up, hire one, because it leads to better technical outcomes.

h t h

# ? Mar 3, 2015 13:57

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Phobeste posted:

the reason music auditions are behind a screen is because you have to mostly care about how good the person is playing the instrument and nothing else counts. with development, interpersonal interactions are at least as important as coding skill, for a sustainable business. if you want to reduce unconscious discrimination, have a more diverse group interview the candidate. if you don't have a diverse group then you're loving up, hire one, because it leads to better technical outcomes.

h t h

I said technical interview dipshit.

# ? Mar 3, 2015 14:21

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

how much of our unconscious discrimination is accurate i wonder

like people often think i look like a nerd. well, i am a nerd. does my nerdiness predict how i look and act, and could this be used to determine my strengths

though really the bigger issue is probably the people hiring going "ew, a woman" or "ew a brown person"

# ? Mar 3, 2015 22:22

Maximo Roboto: Feb 4, 2012

qirex posted:

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I thought this post was about Gavin Belson from the Silicon Valley show. F U!

# ? Mar 3, 2015 23:52

ultramiraculous: Nov 12, 2003; "No..."; Grimey Drawer

i believe the orthodox traditions are best, yes

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:06

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

the best technical interview should be where you take a candidate into the server room and make sure to pull a couple raid disks so the alarms are going and they start yelling at you that the slave db is down and hand you an overheating p4 vaio laptop with 30 minutes of battery life and hyperterminal on the screen

if you snob and roll your eyes and mutter something about linux, you lose
if you start taking the laptop apart to clear the cat hair before you start, you lose
if you actually try to fix the problem you lose

if you throw the thing on the ground and say "gently caress this, it's not worth it", you get the job

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:20

emoji: Jun 4, 2004

Why would I ever enter a server room in my life?

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:21

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

emoji posted:

Why would I ever enter a server room in my life?

gunpoint

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:24

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

lol if you have to touch hardware, just lol

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:28

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

Jonny 290 posted:

the best technical interview should be where you take a candidate into the server room and make sure to pull a couple raid disks so the alarms are going and they start yelling at you that the slave db is down and hand you an overheating p4 vaio laptop with 30 minutes of battery life and hyperterminal on the screen

if you snob and roll your eyes and mutter something about linux, you lose
if you start taking the laptop apart to clear the cat hair before you start, you lose
if you actually try to fix the problem you lose

if you throw the thing on the ground and say "gently caress this, it's not worth it", you get the job

the Kobayashi Maru server room

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:38

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Jonny 290 posted:

the best technical interview should be where you take a candidate into the server room and make sure to pull a couple raid disks so the alarms are going and they start yelling at you that the slave db is down and hand you an overheating p4 vaio laptop with 30 minutes of battery life and hyperterminal on the screen

if you snob and roll your eyes and mutter something about linux, you lose
if you start taking the laptop apart to clear the cat hair before you start, you lose
if you actually try to fix the problem you lose

if you throw the thing on the ground and say "gently caress this, it's not worth it", you get the job

this but more monkey, less cheese

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:43

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

lol if you are involved with any of the equipment your software runs on or any of the people who use it

# ? Mar 4, 2015 04:53

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

bunch of limp-wristed software guys in here. lol if you aren't using jtag to debug and probing pins on your cpu with an oscope

# ? Mar 4, 2015 05:01

pram: Jun 10, 2001

# ? Mar 4, 2015 05:03

Maximum Leader: Dec 5, 2014

The Management posted:

bunch of limp-wristed software guys in here. lol if you aren't using jtag to debug and probing pins on your cpu with an oscope

lol if u don't watch YouTube while deploying vm templates all day

# ? Mar 4, 2015 05:11

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

lol if you haven't had to kill a man in service of your job

# ? Mar 4, 2015 05:14

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

The Management posted:

the Kobayashi Maru server room

gently caress, you're right, haha

# ? Mar 4, 2015 05:14

Doc Block: Apr 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

The Management posted:

bunch of limp-wristed software guys in here. lol if you aren't using jtag to debug and probing pins on your cpu with an oscope

"what's a struct? gently caress it, I'll just make another global variable."
-every hardware guy

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:49

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

Doc Block posted:

"what's a struct? gently caress it, I'll just make another global variable."
-every hardware guy

I agree, though I'm not sure why you quoted me.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 09:15

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Doc Block posted:

"what's a struct? gently caress it, I'll just make another global variable."
-every hardware guy

Why do programmers feel like programming is the peak of intellectualism?

# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:10

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

Yeah, so you may be able to build a boiler that powers the steam system that makes my building warm. But you can't put widgets in a rectangle so you are a loser.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:11

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

It's like listening to the pentultimate unpopular kid picking on the least popular kid.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:12

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

SYSV Fanfic posted:

It's like listening to the pentultimate unpopular kid picking on the least popular kid.

Don't reveal my posting technique, fuckhead. :mad:

# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:35

black man 3: Oct 29, 2014; by XyloJW

Anyone hosed a pussy recently?

# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:01

black man 3: Oct 29, 2014; by XyloJW

Woops, meant to post that in the cat thread

# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:01

Flat Daddy: Dec 3, 2014; by Nyc_Tattoo

so now that u realized your mistake are you gonna go post that in the cat thread then??

# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:53

black man 3: Oct 29, 2014; by XyloJW

Flat Daddy posted:

so now that u realized your mistake are you gonna go post that in the cat thread then??

No, it's a rhetorical question

# ? Mar 4, 2015 18:27

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# ? May 17, 2024 04:39

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

spoiler alert: they haven't in either sense of the phrase, nor has anyone here

# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:14

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