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Or weeded out honest people.

It’s literally selecting for people who can tell the best stories. Not great for any company dependent on moving fast with autonomy, with a genuine mission.

Plus “looking for grit” really means “looking for someone to work long hours (typically without good odds of realizing fair equity)”… super unethical to even attempt to be selecting for people with trauatic and toxic Pasts.

If they wanted to select candidates for learning quickly, being adaptive, whatever… just test for that.

This whole thing read like a sociopath selecting for people they can exploit.

While I was, on the contrary, thinking the questions were at risk of finding sociopaths who said the right things, made up the right stories, and then went on exploiting the company and people there

Maybe it's a combination of both

(Just to avoid misunderstandings: I think the article author seems like a good-intentions person, just that the _interview questions_ look partly risky to me)

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