I came across this post on the perfect interview test and I have to say that the thought of interviewers secretly recording candidates road crossing habits is quite hilarious.
The idea that a set of random people crossing the street (literally in this case) would be better hires than the selected people after a little more ‘conventional’ interview process means that the hiring manager is actually a liability during the interview process. This means that the average and above average people are weeded out by the conventional interview process of the hiring manager.
In addition, the post attributes the above strategy to the people who wrote the book titled I Hate People. Obvious question: Why are you hiring in the first place then? You hate people.
If you have a hiring manager who is thinking about following the above strategy I have the following 2 recommendations
- Hire the people that this hiring manager usually rejects. As shown above the average and above average people are weeded out by the hiring manager – so hire the weeded out people in this case. OR
- Replace the hiring manager by a random hiring manager crossing the street. Chances are that this would be an upgrade.
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During interview processes, I’ve been amazed at the number of losers that work in HR departments. They have no clue what my profession does. If you don’t know about my profession, then you should have a minimum number of generic questions for me, otherwise STFU and hand me over to someone that does know.