The case for being biased - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack

Why telling the truth might be the second-most valuable thing data teams can do.

While we're on the subject of the all-time greats, I’ve got two candidates for the best interview of all time. The first contender is an engineer that we interviewed at Mode in 2015. He was at our office for the onsite, and we were prodding our way around his resume, asking canned questions about his prior jobs. In the middle of deadpanning through an otherwise unremarkable answer, he trailed off, his eyes drifted into the middle distance, and, as if sabotaged by some microscopic rebel, his brain sputtered, stalled, and powered down. We all froze in the silence. After a few seconds, he…

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