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| "Training out the stupid" |
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| Cerebus:
No, you've got the right word. |
| daqq:
My theory is that people who get stuff done are too busy fixing stuff that the people who can't get stuff done broke and don't have time for silly certifications. |
| asmi:
When I interview candidates, I always ask about one of their past projects. You can always feel when he/she is proud of the work they had done in that project, and such people usually are very passionate and love telling about it to everyone who would care to listen. This is the kind of people I hire into my team. I want engineers to do things in such a way that they won't be ashamed to publicly talk about it, as that's how I do things myself. As for certificates - they have zero importance to me, so I always ignore them, as the only thing they prove is that a person is capable of memorizing certain things and remembering them just long enough to pass a test. I mean, everyone who graduated University knows the drill - you memorize stuff the night before exam, you pass exam, you forget 99% of what you memorized by the time you get home from exam. |
| Syntax Error:
Never confuse a person who is highly capable with another who is just "highly trained". There are two cost effective methodologies to hire the best candidate... 1) Pass candidates through a lengthy selection process including practical real world tests. For example, get the torque wrench out the toolbox and tighten the engine bolts to 20 newtons. (If you ask, "what's a talk wrench?", do not proceed) 2) Hire any candidate who can read, write, and possibly both. Based on the law that if you put enough monkeys behind enough typewriters you get Leo Tolstoy, if you train them all how to use the office computer system, they will become a collective literary genius. At half the price. Indeed there are people who can paper a wall with their qualifications, and deservedly so. And there's the rest, who can't even paper a wall. I remember a doctorate with a PhD in AI software. He was possibly one of the most over-educated morons that I have ever met. Artificial and not intelligent. But managers were infatuated by his title. He had to be clever, right? No, he was just qualified. There is a simple yes or no question you can ask yourself; would I want to be stuck on a desert island with this person, even if they had a night school diploma in surviving a ship wreck? |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on December 14, 2020, 09:45:35 pm ---There is a simple yes or no question you can ask yourself; would I want to be stuck on a desert island with this person, even if they had a night school diploma in surviving a ship wreck? --- End quote --- This is a very good one! |
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