[darth_avocado]

It’s not a Steve Jobs interview, way back during my consulting days, partners used to say the same thing, we hire people based on whether I’d go hang out with this person over a beer or not.

Tbh, it kind of made sense in consulting when you had a lot of traveling to do, spend time in middle of nowhere towns with your colleagues and hours at an airport when your flight was delayed. And I say kind of, because it instantly became a bros club and because consulting doesn’t really require any skills beyond being that person who you’d have beers with.

Coming back to Steve Jobs and the corporate bs, this kind of test makes absolutely no sense. You need pilots who can fly a plane, not have beers with you. You need surgeons who can do the impossible surgeries, not the dude who can tell the best jokes over beer. You need the engineers who can build products, not frat boys you can do shots with.

- Former frat boy consultant who absolutely hated it