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Do You Tell a Job Candidate How Badly They Did?
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?"
"somehow" is one word, not two. grammar ought to be a prerequisite for getting jobs too.
You start believing crap from people less able then yourself because they have a job and you don't.
Then how about growing a pair, seeing a therapist or a counselor, and learning that you live in YOUR reality, and not other people's?
I've seen very able people give up looking and take jobs in different feilds because each rejection makes them think they are less capable.
A person who THINKS they are less capable is just a bad as a person who is really is less capable. In fact there's no difference, in my opinion.
A person who gives up looking for a job because of what other people tell him will probably give up in a lot of other areas too. On average, that person is just not worth as much on the job market.
A job is not a charitable handout. If you're too much of a wimp to handle rejection, then come on, WORK ON IMPROVING YOURSELF.
For the rest of you, congratulations, minimum wage was increased today.
you sir, are a fucking cunt
I worked at Analog Devices at the time, and I know for a fact that we hired during the downturn. You just had to be an excellent candidate. Judging from your performance with the other companies, I'd say you're not an excellent candidate.