Comment on Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviewsComments−eric00110yWow.. I feel super provoked by the question "What's cool about you?". I wonder why..−clavalle10yProbably because being 'cool' is highly subjective and of marginal, perhaps even negative, relevance to doing valuable work.It is presumptuous and pretentious: 'Are you good enough by my own arbitrary and vague standards to be around me' is the underlying question.
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Wow.. I feel super provoked by the question "What's cool about you?". I wonder why..
Probably because being 'cool' is highly subjective and of marginal, perhaps even negative, relevance to doing valuable work.
It is presumptuous and pretentious: 'Are you good enough by my own arbitrary and vague standards to be around me' is the underlying question.