Not Hiring the Best Interviewee

Robert Sweeney · 2nd Founder and CEO at Facet 3d · Edited I turned down Daniel Buchmueller for a job at Netflix. After a 60 minute interview I was on the fence, so I concluded that he "wasn't senior enough." He went to Amazon instead where he co-founded Amazon Prime Air (their drone delivery service) and was #2 on Fast Company's "Most Creative People" list. At some point, we programmers are going to have to admit that we really can't judge another programmers technical abilities in a 60 min interview. We end up hiring programmers that are good at interviewing, but not necessarily good at doing the job. And we miss out on engineers like Daniel. #hiring #softwareengineer #programmers #interviews Like Comment Share Top Comments Daniel Buchmueller · 2nd Director Of Engineering at Flatiron Health 1d · … Thank you for your kind words Robert Sweeney and thank you for not hiring me! 😁 Even after conducting hundreds of interviews since, I personally still struggle with this myself. In interview debriefs I like to ask the question: Do we think the gaps are coachable and if so, are we willing and able to put in our investment in the coaching opportunity at hand?

A LinkedIn post by Robert Sweeney says he rejected Daniel Buchmueller after a 60-minute interview because Daniel did not seem senior enough. Daniel replies humorously, thanking him for not hiring him, while the post argues that interviews often reward interview performance rather than real engineering ability. The meme is used to mock flawed hiring practices and overly confident interview judgments. EN: A LinkedIn post by Robert Sweeney says he rejected Daniel Buchmueller after a 60-minute interview because Daniel did not seem senior enough. Daniel replies humorously, thanking him for not hiring him, while the post argues that interviews often reward interview performance rather than real engineering ability. The meme is used to mock flawed hiring practices and overly confident interview judgments.

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