> Just imagine what companies would look like if their hiring processes filtered out this kind of charlatan instead of looking for whether they could do some dumb coding card trick in a 45 minute interview block. I think they'd look very different, and a whole bunch of people would have to find another industry to prey upon.
I would caution against hoping for a personality test that could weed out the phonies, though. "Behavioral interviews" are strange enough already, in my opinion, even if their goal might be admirable (e.g. identify the assholes).
Anywhere there is money and prestige to be had, you can either keep things small or inevitably suffer the phonies.
> Just imagine what companies would look like if their hiring processes filtered out this kind of charlatan instead of looking for whether they could do some dumb coding card trick in a 45 minute interview block. I think they'd look very different, and a whole bunch of people would have to find another industry to prey upon.
I would caution against hoping for a personality test that could weed out the phonies, though. "Behavioral interviews" are strange enough already, in my opinion, even if their goal might be admirable (e.g. identify the assholes).
Anywhere there is money and prestige to be had, you can either keep things small or inevitably suffer the phonies.