And how beneficial is telling people they have a mental disorder if they experience common issues that even healthy people experience? A mental disorder has to significantly impact your life for a long period. A symptom list that consists solely of freezing up when put on the spot in a rare high-stakes situation is not going to qualify. Any teacher can tell you this happens to everyone. Stop right in the middle of lecture, point at one student suddenly, and ask them a quick question that demands a quick answer and wait. The most common response will be "uh!uh!..." even when they know the answer. It's about the situation itself that people weren't ready for, not the specific facts they were asked about. You indeed need to practice retrieving information under the particular circumstances to build the confidence to not freeze up like that.
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Spoken exactly like someone who has never had the pleasure of experiencing the vicious and debilitating feedback loop of a panic attack. Of course everyone gets nervous when put on the spot; panic disorders go well beyond that, to the point where you might believe your death is imminent during something like a routine interview, and your fight or flight response kicks in. Rather than concentrating on the problem at hand, your mind is focused solely on survival.
> You indeed need to practice retrieving information under the particular circumstances to build the confidence to not freeze up like that.
Is that part of the job description now?
What are these characteristics that:
1. Are present in the day-to-day work of a great many impactful software engineers that employers want to hire?
and
2. Do not discriminate against gender, gender identity, race, national origin, faith, sexual orientation, veteran status, age, and any and all other characteristics that employers are forbidden from discriminating against?
and
3. Are present and can be easily recognized in a leetcode-style interview keeping in mind that the number of similarities/amount of overlap between leetcode-style and day-to-day software engineering work is very close to zero if not zero?
I think I'd want the smarter candidate regardless in a job like software development that is overwhelmingly based on quiet focus time. It's easier to help them work through the rare emergency, than to help a less-skilled employee work through literally everything else.
But just blanking when suddenly put on the spot happens to everyone. Human memory retrieval is a complicated process, nothing like a computer. You can have vast expertise in there but not be able to retrieve it instantly, unless of course you've practiced interviewing that very subject a lot recently.
The funny thing is IP laws are by definition monopolies protected by government. Every one of the big tech "quasi-monopolies" are sitting on a mountain of it.
Be careful, IP is a hodgepodge of things, like copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
To pick one: trade secrets are not a monopoly. If you figure out the secret ingredient in Coca Cola (by legal means), you are free to use that knowledge and even publish it.
Similarly, I have my reservations about whether patents are a good idea; but I don't mind trademarks nearly as much.
