Re: Job Description(s)

"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> [...]
> The sad truth is that you never know anything about a person (or an
> employer, as far as that goes) until you work with them. And there's a
> lot of responsibility on both sides of the issue, which is why
> employers tend to "over-interview" out of caution, even when it
> doesn't do a lot of good. [...]


Here's the flip side of that: a buddy of mine was just complaining to me
that he's been interviewing for a position in a different group, in the same
large software company he's been working with for 15 years. Fifteen years
of happy bosses and excellent performance reviews (I used to work with him
myself, at the beginning of those fifteen years; the reviews are
well-deserved). And yet, the first thing they want to do is put him up at a
whiteboard and ask him the same pointless generic questions they'd ask
someone they never met.

At some point, and I think that point is about 3 months after the start of
employment, you've got to think that another interview is not the most
efficient way of finding out whether someone's up to the job...


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