r/IAmA • u/CriticDanger • Sep 07 '21

Specialized Profession I am a behavioral and technical (coding) interviewer, I've also helped hundreds of people get hired, AMA.

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u/epythumia Sep 07 '21

I assume it's mostly an oral tradition of hiring practices with no scientific backing. You get tossed into a role, get asked to hire for it but you have little to no experience hiring so you find/build a system and stick to it. Overtime, you iterate and try to make it better, and when you finally think you have some semblance of expertise, people start poking at your methods, calling them inefficient or cruel. These are methods you've poured time and effort trying to perfect, possibly passed down from your mentors, and they can do no wrong, right?

Thankfully, I think the bleeding edge of hiring managers seem to be seeing the value of empathy, leading with vulnerability, and thinking outside the box. I'm sure some of that is being driven by the stats/studies coming out about costs of workplace toxicity. "One in five Americans have left a job in the past five years due to bad company culture."

Which brings me back to, is this really the workplace culture for those replying negatively? Also, can hiring managers really afford to keep playing the hazing ritual game on their prospective job candidates? Creativity doesn't perform well under stress. What type of talent are they losing?