This video discusses two often confused English terms: “bartender” and “bar raiser”. A bartender is a person who mixes and serves drinks at a bar, while a bar raiser is a metaphor for raising standards or expectations, and was first used to describe the process of gradually increasing difficulty in sports. The term has since been applied to a wider range of areas, such as business. At Amazon, a “bar raiser” is an interviewer who tests the limits of a candidate by increasing the difficulty. I also distinguished the different meanings of the English word “bar raiser” and the Chinese word “抬杠” (picker).
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