“They all have excellent resumes… So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.”

— Hyman George Rickover

Discussing his style of interviewing all officers who entered the Naval Reactors program.
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic, or wilt? Or will they continue to function with some modicum of competence and integrity?

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