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[–]trident765[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't ask a question because they loved him too much and I didn't want to spoil their fun. It looks like he is going to be offered the job.

Of course all this depends on to what degree your teammates are modern scum.

I think they are non-scum, but they are naive non-scum. They have good values, write good software, but they fell for this guy who I strongly suspect has values that are contrary to theirs, because they fell for his charisma and virtue signaling (for example, he kept mentioning how he was a "proud new dad" and included photos of his infant kids in his presentation and his resume).

In the panel interview someone asked him a question similar to the question about teams, and he responded saying he prefers software development to be "dynamic" (by the way, modern scum love using vaguely defined words) and I think by this he meant that multiple people contribute to a software because afterwards he made a joke about how he gets overwhelmed when he is solely responsible for a software. One of the people on the panel who especially loved this guy said "that's great we do that here too! We each have our own projects we are responsible for, and then every once in a while we work together on the things that overlap". Basically he "corrected" the answer for him, and moved on. He didn't dig deeper, or ask him to clarify what he meant by "dynamic", because he liked his charisma so much that he was almost afraid of prying more, for fear of finding out something that would hurt his candidacy.

When I submitted my review of the candidate, I said that I was impressed by his presentation and experience, but that I felt like I knew very little about his personality, because the panel did not ask him any concrete questions about situations in the workplace, and I recommended for the next panel to ask more personality questions. Even by leaving this I felt like I was being too critical, because of how much everyone else loved him.

I think it is horrible that my teammates allowed themselves to be disarmed by this guy's public speaking skills. Just because someone is good at public speaking doesn't mean he will be a pleasant person to work with. They should have reflected on their values prior to the interview, and then asked questions to make sure the candidate's values were values that they found tolerable. But they liked his public speaking skills so they just assumed his values were good and gave him a "freebie" in that aspect of the interview.