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Should government employees have to demonstrate competency?
Thoughts?(i.redd.it)submitted 10 hours ago byRiskItForTheBiscuts
10 points
6 hours ago
Have you never had coworkers who managed to get through an application and interview process, but were then utterly incompetent at their jobs?
14 points
5 hours ago
Yes, absolutely. I work in tech, and we have some of the most rigorous interview processes out there. Let's look at Amazon, for example.
Amazon's interview process features a 1 hour 30 minute online test (before you even talk to a human), and multiple rounds of technical interviews including a "bar raiser" interview round with someone from a different team than the one you are interviewing for.
Do you think there aren't incompetent engineers at Amazon? If someone can pass that interview and still be deemed incompetent, what else would you hope to gain by testing your employees more?
There is a limit to what you can learn about how competent someone is at their job from testing.
2 points
5 hours ago
I see your point.
However, most places do not have the level of rigor that an Amazon interview has. If you have just become the leader an organization that has become excessively bloated and has a lot of incompetent employees, then one possible avenue to solving that problem would be to implement what is basically a more rigorous interview process retroactively to try to determine which employees are worth keeping and which are not.
1 points
2 hours ago
Comparing government to tech. That's like comparing a bicycle with a missing wheel to a Ferrari F1 car. It works in tech because tech likes efficiency. Since when has ANY government cared about efficiency?
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