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When hiring developers, fetch a stoic subordinate who is A) good at eye contact and B) able to maintain said eye contact without blinking.

Have this subordinate and the candidate participate in a staring contest. This will show a couple of things about the candidate: A) How well they maintain eye contact (very important for communication) and B) How long it takes them to back down from a challenge; this taps into their primal instincts.



Is this one of those tests where you hire the first person to call out your BS interviewing technique?


I've had managers be critical of candidates with poor eye contact before. I've had to remind them that not everyone is good at that. It certainly isn't required for being a software engineer.


I honestly can't tell if this is satire or an interesting look into an alien (to me) work culture.


Gotta tap into their primal instincts.

I would also sound a fire alarm, to see how they react to working under stress, and measure how much their pupils dilate.


Imagine how valuable pupil dilation would be to a giant tech company pushing infinite scrolling with advertisements to a user base capturing most of America.

...Anyone know if Oculus has been bought yet?


Haha, good one!




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