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Appropriate Interviewing For a Worldwide Search?
jellomizer writes 'I am a manager of a small Software Development department, looking to hire some more developers. By edict of the CEO, the search must be made globally, so we are dealing with different cultures and different ideas of truth and embellishment, etc. To try to counteract this, we give the potential employees tests where I watch what they do, to see if they actually know what they say they know. However, it seems a lot of applicants drop out when I mention that this test is mandatory. Is this a sign that we caught them in a lie, or are we weeding out good people where we shouldn't be? Would you be willing to take a test as part of an interview? If so, is there any type of heads up you would like to know beforehand to make the decision of whether to take the test easier?' What other difficulties have people seen while trying to hire from many different cultures?
You have a dumb CEO.
Weed out the morans, the liars, and the people who think their "degree" from UnheardOfCollege in UnheardOfMajor along with a list of every popular language will be trusted.
99% of the time it's a code monkey from India who desires to simply get a job for Visa status, wiggle into a role of writing/supporting web applications in 1, 2 languages tops, and then do a mediocre job of it due to lack of actual knowledge and prior experience.
That's better...