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Do You Tell a Job Candidate How Badly They Did?

Posted by Cliff on from the let-the-job-market-sort-it-out dept.

skelter asks: "I have been lamenting with friends in the industry about interviewing woes and the candidates that we find. Consider a hypothetical job candidate comes in after some how making it through screening. In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, usher them out and say nothing? Play with them on the whiteboard the way your cat plays with injured mice? Should you leave them as their own warning to others? Is there any obligation to guide them to gaining real experience? Can you give them any advice or is it all liability?"

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  1. Just... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    act crazy... bitch slap one of your coworkers in front of him. Cut up some fruit in the kitchen and use a really sharp knife. Grin while you're doing it. Then show him your scarification.

    Scream something random to people in the next room at unpredictable intervals.

    By the time the interview's over, a callback will be the last thing they're wondering about.

  2. Re:Not a word! by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny
    based on his momma telling him he could code better than God, and anyone who doesnt know it, should die.
    Oh, don't be so cocky. I am fortunate to know a guy who awhile back was told -in writing- that his research sucked and was a complete waste of time.

    That guy went on to get a Nobel Prize for the said research in 2005 and now he opens his talks by showing the "fuckoff" rejection letter...

    Luckily for the idiot that wrote the letter, Dr. Marshall magnanimously blacks out the name and the sig!

    The lesson here is: be nice to "insecure geeks."
    --
    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  3. Re:Discrimination? by Loco+Moped · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems a fairly disturbing trend that most IT jobs now insist on candidates having experience that would seem to preclude anyone over 30.

    How's that?
    I'm over 60, and I've been in IT since the late '70s.
    I have less than 6 years of experience.
    (between naps, lunch, and endless meetings)

  4. Re:Depends how much of a dick you are... by Opie812 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please note, that when calling somebody a "clueless dick" do not - I repeat - do not use the incorrect version of your/you're.

    (you're welcome)

    --
    I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
  5. Re:True Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just googled you, "Anonymous Coward", and I think you... spend too much time on slahsdot.