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That's because she's already went through all that stress and bullshit and skills testing in med school and residency. If any clown could call themselves a nurse, and would apply to ER nurse jobs, it would take all of ten seconds before nurses would have to do whiteboard triage interviews. I have no idea what the candidate did in their CS undergrad. Maybe they cribbed all their work from their roommate. Maybe they went to a party school. Maybe they spent the last 4 years as a 'Senior Developer'
at FooCorp copying files from hard drives to floppy disks, and posting a few paragraphs a day on the company's WordPress install. Maybe they are an Architecture Astronaut who can talk for six hours about how great Haskell is at doing multi-manifold monadic trivariable entaglement, but has no idea how to do any real work. Or maybe they spent the last decade building Bigtable and MapReduce, and Spanner, and TensorFlow at Google. I'm not an expert on Bigtable, or MapReduce, or Spanner, or TensorFlow, though - and I can't definitively, in 60 minutes, tell if the person I'm talking to is bullshitting me. I can't tell if they actually did any of that work, or they coasted. I can't tell if the complicated problem they are describing to me is actually hard, or if they are embellishing it. Even if I felt confident that I could make that conclusion, my opinion would be incredibly colored by personal biases. Oh, I should check their GitHub, you say? Well, guess what - Jeff Dean - the guy who did spend the last decade building Bigtable and Mapreduce, and Spanner, and TensorFlow - doesn't have a GitHub account. Presumably because he has better things to do with his free time, then work on OSS. Oh, I should hire fast and fire fast? Don't get me started on why that doesn't work... |