Re: Bitwise Mag editorial calls OOP 'Snake Oil'

Laurent Bossavit wrote:
> 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.

When you wish to avoid lawsuits "let the new guy go" becomes an
involved and drawn-out process.

> 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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