You value what you can judge. (Similarly, you value what you can measure.)
Being able to test the ability of somebody in algorithms to a high ability level is a useful late-stage signal.
I always thought it would be interesting to just ask "What do you want to be interviewed on?" and to tease out their strengths from this. You'd then be able to question away to whatever depth necessary without worrying that they were being forced to dance in another man's frame.
I guess the problem with that would be that the interviewer needs to know the area he is testing an interviewee on in order that he may judge it accurately. The communal ground which is intellectually testing is often the academic experience they (possibly) shared.
Being able to test the ability of somebody in algorithms to a high ability level is a useful late-stage signal.
I always thought it would be interesting to just ask "What do you want to be interviewed on?" and to tease out their strengths from this. You'd then be able to question away to whatever depth necessary without worrying that they were being forced to dance in another man's frame.
I guess the problem with that would be that the interviewer needs to know the area he is testing an interviewee on in order that he may judge it accurately. The communal ground which is intellectually testing is often the academic experience they (possibly) shared.