Stop Asking Inane & Pointless Interview Questions

Great hires start with thoughtful candidate experiences

Sometimes people will be wrong on the Internet. Ok, maybe it happens a lot. Rarely do I ever comment on other people’s posts these days. Mostly because correcting all the wrongness on the web would be a never-ending, thoroughly exhausting, and depressingly hopeless endeavor.

This is also why I keep my Twitter commentary positive. Over the years, I have trained myself to ignore any and all potential controversy. No one wins Twitter battles. Instead, it is a much better strategy to focus on being helpful, support others, build things, and pour one’s creative energies into adding value to this world..

Sometimes however there are simply things that are too egregious to let go. This is particularly the case when it comes to social commentary on recruiting and hiring practices. Empathy and compassion fly out the window, replaced with the cold-hearted meat grinder of resource filling. Sometimes you get the sense that people would prefer to hire robots than actual humans.

Such was the case with a supposed startup founder. I say supposed because there was very little evidence suggesting that he actually had ever or is building a tech startup. The context is important here because this individual was…