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by ipaddr 1410 days ago
If you were applying to be a doctor would the interviewer giving you an orange and a dull knife and asking you to cutout a seed without spilling any juice on the table be helpful as a hiring filter? Because that is what you are doing.

Just hire a few people part time and the one(s) that can deliver offer full time roles.
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silisili 1410 days ago
This analogy doesn't hold water.

It's more like hiring for a podiatrist, the candidate claiming to be a podiatrist for 5 years, then not being able to answer what to do for a sprained ankle... because they can just google it.

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Double_a_92 1409 days ago
It's more like asking them to list all the chemical components of some pain meds that they might prescribe for a sprained ankle.

Also would you really ask a doctor such a (as I already said) insultingly trivial question during an interview?

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