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by johan_larson 3653 days ago
The question to ask anyone who claims they only hire the best is, "How do you make sure of that?"

They should have an answer, and it needs to be a good one.
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p4wnc6 3653 days ago
Well, we make them do a really hard HackerRank test, and then write syntactically correct code to print a binary tree in raster order on a whiteboard. And then we don't hire them because their salary demands are too high so we get someone cheaper with less experience.
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jacques_chester 3653 days ago
We used to have a question for interviewers where I work: "Will this person raise the average?"

I used to detest it. I left no shortage of smartarse remarks about infinite limits in a finite world.

In fact nobody really liked that question and it was eventually removed in favour of variations on the core question: do you want to work with this person?

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johan_larson 3653 days ago
> "Will this person raise the average?"

"Do half of you think you're dumber than this guy?"

It's a great question.

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