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Re: "don't do riddles"
He's insecure and depressed then. I would guess that the correlation between feelings of success and actual success is not necessarily that large.
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He won the 24 hour Le Mans in 2014, .. driving an Aston Martin
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How predictable! I bet he's into hot air balloons, or space travel, or charities.
A great thing about Warren Buffett is that all he does is play the ukulele. Nothing to prove. He's a real man!
A great thing about Warren Buffett is that all he does is play the ukulele. Nothing to prove. He's a real man!
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Ah, the weapon of choice of Blaudzun, our National ukukele hero. Look how cool he is!
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Also trying too hard!
Here is a Real Man, unafraid of whiteboards:
Here is a Real Man, unafraid of whiteboards:
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He needs a souffleur to tell him there a woman wearing a pink negligee in the room! I bet he'd rather be drawing bubblesort diagram on a whiteboard.
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Interviewer: "Imagine your in a room with a whiteboard, a ukulele, and a woman wearing a pink negligee. Behind the curtains is a man with a hat trying to get your attention. What do you do?"
Candidate: "What kind of hat? A Homburg or a Panama hat? Anyway, I guess I would draw three bubblesort diagrams on the whiteboard."
Candidate: "What kind of hat? A Homburg or a Panama hat? Anyway, I guess I would draw three bubblesort diagrams on the whiteboard."
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Dear Collegues,
We'd like to welcome George as our new head of tech recruiting!
A quick assessment showed that George can level with those tech people, he knows how to ask all the "formal tech cliches" listed Appendix B of our tech recruitment manual. Moreover with George we no longer have to worry about the ladies in HR being distracted all the time, nor the constant interference of the CFO in the recruitment process trying to get his nephew hired.
We'd like to welcome George as our new head of tech recruiting!
A quick assessment showed that George can level with those tech people, he knows how to ask all the "formal tech cliches" listed Appendix B of our tech recruitment manual. Moreover with George we no longer have to worry about the ladies in HR being distracted all the time, nor the constant interference of the CFO in the recruitment process trying to get his nephew hired.
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He was famous for his "right hand technique"!Moreover with George we no longer have to worry about the ladies in HR being distracted all the time
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Re: "don't do riddles"
Bubble sort for dancersI had to google bubble sort. It doesn't look like a riddle to me! Riddles require lateral thinking, he's clearly not keen on that. Coding bubble sort is the exact opposite. So what exactly can he actually do?
But that's beside the point. Doing anything on a whiteboard is the issue. Some people really can't think (literally) on their feet. And some jobs require that.
I've tried to discuss some math ideas on a blackboard with famous quants and they are physically incapable. They are also the ones who produce the most unoriginal work
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What planet is he from?! Those two things are like chalk and cheese! Whiteboards are for creativity, they are for improvising. It's where mathematicians get together and make beautiful math-jazz, jazz-math, jath, mazz,...
Non-mathematicians don't appreciate/understand the process that takes place when discussing maths problems. Of course the interview question is not how to compute [$]e^5[$] but to show how you apply your knowledge to new situations, just like Ausubel Subsumption principle. Some people find that scary.
Another point: all the riddles seem to center around discrete maths things like pi, Fibonacci and other dead wood. And sort routines, ad nauseum. It's so 70s.
Non-mathematicians don't appreciate/understand the process that takes place when discussing maths problems. Of course the interview question is not how to compute [$]e^5[$] but to show how you apply your knowledge to new situations, just like Ausubel Subsumption principle. Some people find that scary.
Another point: all the riddles seem to center around discrete maths things like pi, Fibonacci and other dead wood. And sort routines, ad nauseum. It's so 70s.
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Handy extensive list of companies that don't do whiteboard brainteaser interview:
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-withou ... /README.md
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-withou ... /README.md
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I believe that the current jargon for such sensitive souls is "snowflake."
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To cover both sides of the story: I also found a list of companies that *do* whiteboard at they.whiteboarded.me
http://they.whiteboarded.me/companies-t ... board.html
http://they.whiteboarded.me/companies-t ... board.html