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On 9/23/2024 10:51 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:

>> We just fired a PhD. Great theorist, no common sense.
> 
> Didn't have enough sense to flatter John Larkin as fulsomely as he 
> should have done. Or maybe a bad case intellectual integrity.
> 

If someone want a "great theorist" who can also sling solder and knows 
their way around a bench that seems like something to be resolved at the 
interview stage, not however many months or years later.

But yeah everyone I know myself included has been turned down for 
positions where despite being very familiar with the potential 
employer's actual problem they prefer to discuss some other random thing 
not significantly related to the job description as written, up to and 
including sports or what my relationship with my mother is like 
(seriously.)

I optimistically chalk it up to "cultural differences" but I do prefer 
employers do that sorting at the interview stage.