Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

[Peter Stuge]

Hi,

Markos Chandras wrote:
> We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the
> recruitment process. The web application does not work as we expected.

I've been considering recruitment for many years and I made my first
effort to prepare for recruitment about two years ago, but I haven't
finished the quizzes yet. I'm very happy to learn that a web
application did not work out (sans the wasted effort of course). I
don't know what a web app could bring that the quiz format can't.


> understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to "hire" people
> either, but they worked ok for all these years

I don't know.. Subjectively I don't think they work ok at all, since
I still haven't finished them even after many years.

But it's totally possible that they actually *do* work ok, and that
I really absolutely *must* know everything they ask about before
starting recruitment. Not sure.


> and it is the only alternative we have at the moment.

Thinking outside of the quiz^Wbox and getting to know people is a
good alternative. It takes time too of course, but no quiz or web
app can replace it.


//Peter