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Patrick McKenzie
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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      I am not a fan of using "performative enthusiasm about the job/company" to evaluate interview performance. Many enthusiastic candidates will fail to display it legibly in interview format. Conversely, trivial to "fake it" for 40 minutes if known to be on rubric.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      More generally, any criteria on your rubric you don't share explicitly with candidates tests weakly for the criteria and strongly for "does the candidate possess social technology to access the interview rubric prior to the interview."

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      Sometimes that social technology is, for lack of a better word, "interviews well." More perniciously, that social technology can be "convince a current or former employee to straight-up tell them what secret passwords will be asked for."

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      Returning to the question of performative enthusiasm, even if you're entirely onboard with looking for it in the abstract, you might fail to detect the signal from people who do not share performance preferences with your interviewer.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      I am quite capable of geeking out about things. My performance of "geeking out" occupies a particular range of behaviors which are roughly appropriate for a particular social class / grouping in the US. They're also gendered as heck.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      I am also capable of performing "Japanese salaryman enthusiasm" and if I dialed that to 8 out of 10 almost no US interviewers would score me as passing the enthusiasm hurdle. I'd have to dial it to a parody range for it to be detectable as enthusiasm.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      There are many Japanese salaryman who did not also choose to subclass in American geek, so if you have enthusiasm as a criteria, you're likely to false negative them given interviewer pool. At risk of stating obvious: Japanese salarymen are not the only group this applies to.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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      Salaryman enthusiasm? Oh, you know - I'd say almost nothing during the interview. I'd agree with substantially everything you said, mostly monosyllabic answers. I'd nod a bit - not too much - and dial formality to 11. What, Americans do enthusiasm differently? How do you do it?

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    9. Benjamin Köppchen‏ @keppla 14 Nov 2017
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      Out of curiosity: how would unenthusiastic look like?

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      Disengagement from you (failure to make confirmatory nods or noises); advancing my own opinion in a strong fashion w/o greatly privileging yours; either ignoring the hierarchy ladder entirely or pulling rank on you as opposed to abasing myself.

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        1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2017
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          Some of the spectrum would read to an American as disinterest; some of the spectrum would read to an American as "Oh he's totally nailing this interview."

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