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0 pointsritchiea9y ago0 comments

I'm a freelancer/run-my-own small dev consultancy and I pretty much never jump through hoops. The level of demand doesn't create the hoops. Some combination of needing to create the appearance of "only hiring the best of the best of the best just like everyone else" & fear of a bad hire creates the hoops.

I don't have trouble finding work and often need to bring on additional help. The hoops are cultural.

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mattnewton9y ago

Bad hires are totally worth the hoops to avoid. The problem I have seen is no one knows which hoops are useful and which are harmful and they do all the superstitions they have read about. I don't know if anyone has figured out a methodology for solving that.

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theparanoid9y ago

The interviews for the big five (Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, FB) are disguised iq tests. It's like taking the SATs to get into college.

xxSparkleSxx9y ago

Yep and when my company gets contracts they don't jump through hoops either. Our sales team doesn't do white-board exercises for clients and neither do our engineers.

So what's your point? You are not a traditional employee. You are a company...it would be weird for them to make you jump through so many hoops.

Companies are treated better than employees in the market.

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