[kristopolous]

" The best engineers and people I know " clearly has a selection bias and is not equivalent to " the very best hires do not enjoy CTFs at all. " they're complete orthogonal

Saying I personally know smart people who don't play games doesn't mean I'm claiming all people who play games are stupid.

This is extremely basic logic stuff here. Do you need me to draw you some pictures? I can do that

[UncleMeat]

Why would this be relevant if it were just about your group of buddies? The post was obviously making a general statement about people in the industry.

[kristopolous]

No. I think the diagram would be genuinely helpful.

This is a set intersection. There's something called Venn diagrams that can help you here.

Any recruitment of a feature by a proxy can do at best the intersection of the proxy and the feature set.

That's the small overlapping slice of the diagram.

You can argue how big that intersection is but recruitment by feature, directly, is a better strategy unless the feature matches the proxy in which case it's equivalent.

So just go direct and skip the proxy.

There's a tendency to hire by games of arguable relevance these days as opposed to direct observations of work. The optimizing towards the game is fundamentally dysfunctional for team building and eventually product development.

It's not coincidental that valley tech has become more manipulation, extraction and distraction services than substantive products as a lagging indicator of this trend. (Of course there's macroeconomic forces as well. I mean, obviously, no shit)

I really can't put any more time into this