Re: Bitwise Mag editorial calls OOP 'Snake Oil'

Phlip,

> As a math curiosity, if a company's HR department was relatively perfect,
> the qualifiable applicants would have equal odds.
> No department is, and the applicants don't. I agree this is a fact of life.

There's a thingie called the "Las Vegas test". You ask this about a
process that's supposed to perform some selection in an orderly manner,
right ? And what you ask is, does my process perform *better than
chance*, that is...

What evidence is there that having HR pore over twenty CVs and picking
one is turning out better hires than if you just picked one out of the
pile at random ?

"Just pick one" isn't a bad process. If the new hire isn't up to snuff,
the team will notice pretty fast. An attentive manager will listen and
let the new guy go. And perhaps randomness will yield a candidate with
an oddbal profile that would never have been considered otherwise. And
who turns out to be the find of the century.

Laurent
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  • Re: Bitwise Mag editorial calls OOP Snake Oil
    ... Laurent Bossavit wrote: ... >> As a math curiosity, if a company's HR department was relatively ... >> the qualifiable applicants would have equal odds. ... > process that's supposed to perform some selection in an orderly manner, ...
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