At least nobody ever says "Well technically he hit the dragon but did he hit the dragon in a way which demonstrates cultural fit? I dunno. Could have had more passion in that swing."
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In my imagination, a group of twelve year olds playing D&D is actually pretty serious about what they are doing...
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In my very-not-imagination, they'd e.g. prepare for a session, write a retrospective, adjust future sessions as appropriate, etc etc. Which does not seem to be an unreasonably high bar for an engineering organization.
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To be fair, 12 year olds playing D&D are usually not defining their own dice rolling mechanics. Maybe selecting from between a number of systems, but not inventing their own.
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“selecting from between a number of systems, but not inventing [your] own“ would be a great improvement on the current reality of tech interviews.
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On one hand, the old canard is "No one gets fired for hiring from X" where X is fancy. On the other hand, its amazing that in an industry with so much demand interviewing is so bad.
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We 12-year-old-at-heart D&D players take our RPG's very seriously.
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It's pretty depressing :(. Still miles ahead of college admissions though. Realizing that made me feel a lot less bad about not getting into the most selective schools.
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At a company where we’re just now writing these down, almost a decade in! Better late than never...
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to be fair, hiring is harder than dungeons and dragons
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