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

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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    Apparently some professional firms are weaponizing imposter syndrome as a recruiting strategy: https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week … Yikes. "[T]hese individuals are immensely attractive to elite professional organizations because they are entirely self-motivating and self-disciplining."pic.twitter.com/NyXXkeqwPV

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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        Oh this seems like a useful thing to make explicit: Self-motivation and self-discipline are in great demand and are VERY RARE in the marketplace, at every level of e.g. educational credential, and therefore if you possess these capabilities you can demand a premium for them.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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        There are many well-credentialed successful smart people who need both very explicit marching orders and someone playing combination motivational coach and whip-cracker to achieve any goal with a longer than N day time horizon. That's pretty much the market expectation.

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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        (Bosses are a technology for a reason.)

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      2. stucchio‏ @stucchio 4 Feb 2018
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        Meanwhile other firms "weaponize" independence, conformity, family friendliness, drive to change the world or other personality traits to attract different cohorts of employee. This clustering seems good to me. It means everyone works at an employer suited to their personality.

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        I'm more concerned by attempts to make *every* employer well suited to one personality type. I probably wouldn't like working at Google; they seem more tolerant of workplace violence than I prefer. I'm fine with that if it stays confined to google. I just won't work there.

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        this happened to me by a shady MSFT recruiter (that changes name every 3 months/operates as a shell company for another company called "LG Consulting" shits real

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      1. Florian Kuhnke‏ @JFKuhnke 4 Feb 2018
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        I have heard that before and dug deeper. They lack development support to gain this confidence. You either make it on your own or you don't. Up or out. Demoralizing, but many young people take the hook.

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        Imposter syndrome are also used by some people to look smarter now that it is trendy

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