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by smt88 3715 days ago
> I'm actually not annoyed

Calling people obnoxious makes it sound like you were annoyed.

> Your emotional appeal does not hold much weight when faced with real business practices

People are highly emotional. Emotions explain the way people behave far better than logic does. Hiring is partially a process of selling a product (employment) to a customer with lots of options (the "best"). If you don't consider the emotional impact of your hiring practices, you'll turn off some of the "best" for no reason.

Considering and accommodating people's emotions also has a huge impact on retention, which is also incredibly important.

> considered the feelings of the guy who took the time to write up an entire post explaining his position in a rather civil & straightforward manner

No. He didn't have to write the post. He wanted people to hear him and respond, and that's what he got.

I consider the feelings of people applying for jobs because they have no other choice.

> Have you considered the person at the other end of the interview table?

I've been that person for 10 years. That's the first person whose feelings I've considered because they are my own.

Interviewing is boring, tedious, and almost impossible to turn into a repeatable process. I understand the impulse to find repeatable, objective ways to measure a candidate's abilities.

Unfortunately, people don't necessarily like being test subjects in high-pressure situations.

> Hm...

As I stated above, saying one thing about a very specific interview practice is not claiming to know everything. It's claiming to know a single, specific thing.

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> Unfortunately, people don't necessarily like being test subjects in high-pressure situations.

And yet somehow they love to play highly stressful, challenging video games and love to be ranked against their peers. Something to think about, is not it?

If the reward of a video game were a job, and the penalty was being unemployed for, let's say, 2 more weeks, people would not play video games the same way they do now.

Artificial pressure and competition is enjoyable, just as roller coasters are enjoyable but riding a swaying bus on a mountain road without a guard rail is not.