Mastodawn

arclight Sep 3, 2025

@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

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Matt

@arclight @alda I'm looking for an electrician to do some work at home recently and decided that before I even consider them for the job, I'm going to make each of the 10 sparkies come and talk through their portfolio of prior work as part of a 4 hour long interview process and get them to also showcase the homework I set prior to the interview which was to hook up a simple circuit using no more than 2 wires, a light bulb, and a potato. Only then will they get to the second round of interviews.