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Software engineers may be the professionals least qualified to judge a candidate's "passion" and "confidence".

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On the topicHow should software engineers be interviewed?under our view: The interview loop is noisy and biased, and rejects good people almost at random

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  1. Thomas Ptacek Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora
    there may be no cohort of professionals less qualified to assess barely-tangible socio-psychological attributes like “passion” and “confidence” than the modern software nerd.

    ↗The Hiring Postsockpuppet.org

    6 Mar 2015

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