> He went on to ruin digg.com (the rewrite everything guy) and I promised myself to never be a dick to people I interview.
Sounds like the interview process worked for you. You found out that you don't want to work with him and didn't.
Sounds like the interview process worked for you. You found out that you don't want to work with him and didn't.
I've interviewed around 40-50 folks for $role at $wildly_successful_megacorp.
My qualifications: zero training, zero oversight.
I'm getting a lot better and more consistent. But I have still left a lot of interviews thinking how poorly I have done, and needing to reflect on how things could have gone differently.
It's very easy to think of interviewing folks as a chore or merely a favor to $other_manager. For something so vital to the long term health of the company, it's really appalling how little effort is put into it.
And so companies turn that around and say "Let's take our best and brightest, and have them interview candidates! Then we'll select the best candidates!"
But it's the same research / teaching faculty problem, where one skillset does not imply the other.
But putting that function in the interviewing process seems awkward...
The most difficult lesson I've learned is even the worst person in the world has their uses and I only hurt myself by not admitting that.
If I can't stand a team I move on as quickly and professionally as possible because life is too short to fight pointless battles.