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by RandoHolmes 2101 days ago
> Many people don’t have such abilities, and 95% of the people I know never needed to present something to any audience so they don’t have experience in it either.

You act as if the people listening aren't aware of this.

What is it you believe exactly, that if person A sounded nervous they wouldn't be hired?

The entire point is to get a conversation started, and the following Q&A allows them to do something everyone needs to do in a job, which is to answer questions.

No interview process is perfect. You can literally give me a description of any interview process and I can start finding problems with it.

Just as you can literally give me a description of any software solution and I can start finding problems with it.

That you can find problems with it doesn't make it useless or harmful. Please come up with better criticisms.