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i poo poo up the resume and terrible programming threads and hire on avg 2 SW interns and 1 FT SW toucher per year AMA
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echinopsis posted:what’s it like to work in a job where it doesn’t feel like the business is slowly dying We have a "runway" that isn't ∞ some months so technically I couldn't tell you ...but it generally doesn't feel like its dying and generally outperforms its industry in growth metrics by a lot so overall it...has its own worries.
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Feb 22, 2021 22:19
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Not a Children posted:I had an amazon interview a few years ago where the interviewer either intentionally or unintentionally said something incorrect about a technical matter and I wasn't sure if it was a slip of the tongue or a gotcha kinda thing, I kinda just smiled and nodded and moved on to the next thing Amazon stole my intern and is paying that kid $33/hr. This person routinely submits broken code and must have all of their PRs tested before accepting. Code touching is garbage.
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Feb 22, 2021 22:24
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If I was a pill person in this day 'n age id go work for TruePill™. TruePill™, we mail you dick pills. Find out more at TruePill™.com
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Feb 22, 2021 22:49
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echinopsis posted:🤔 can I make a living simply by being nzs foremost free deliver boner pill supplier the president aint hard to get ahold of he does press for YC n poo poo to try to recruit people like this from 3 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6yT9ez5to just email him (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidviswanathan) and be like.... I want to distribute dick pills in Australia (or NZ or whatever) ...he's literally making ads RIGHT NOW for this purpose CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Feb 22, 2021 22:55
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echinopsis posted:you saying there’s a ground floor opportunity here well... as an american consumer of Rx drugs, the "a good distributor that any doctor can use simply with an API integration" really appeals to the `puter toucher in me. And this dude seems like he really wants to press the issue. IDK poo poo about NZ to know if drug distribution is a problem there. Also Ground floor is like...1+% equity. They've raised $75M USD so...good luck there.
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Feb 22, 2021 23:04
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echinopsis posted:I’ll have a look when I have a minute at lunch time. I mean if NZ is part of their strat...$75M buys a NZ `puter toucher to team up with you and a few $100k in NZ boner pills. So, you dont really need to know about `puter touching...you just need to be excited to tech someone who does about distributing boner pills, hair loss meds, heartworm medication (I guess IDK your laws) via mail in NZ and need to be able to tell Sid, hey this is a problem here pay me some monies and I'll do it here. My guess is Sid has the connect with the US clientele who would gladly do the same thing in NZ but lack a echinopsis familiar with the regs and interested in doing so
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Feb 22, 2021 23:22
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echinopsis posted:pharmacy is a wage heavy job coz a lot of people work part time. i’m on 37.50/hr and do 45 hour weeks. some pharmacists get 40-42 for being manager of a bigger pharmacy. i’m manager of a smaller pharmacy. it’s not often talked about because we work directly with a bunch of people on about 22/hr Here's the US status on Pharm wages: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm
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Feb 23, 2021 00:32
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echinopsis posted:I regret going into pharmacy so much what if you could give kiwis erections by api tho
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Feb 23, 2021 02:59
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Corla Plankun posted:australia does but is this a joke or are you not in the US cause like...that’s many major American cities in the past 4 years
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Feb 27, 2021 02:51
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at moving to a country that has had citywide outbreaks of racial violence in the 21st century; australia is a chud dreamland
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:if they valued you as much as you are worried about letting them down they’d be paying you as much as (and offering the same perks as) those better positions this
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Apr 1, 2021 03:47
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the talent deficit posted:we use a platform where i work that does this. the timeout is not configurable (or if it is, our recruiters don't know how to change it). you can probably just email them and ask for a new link As a person who has reviewed >600 resumes in the past 2 years and hired ~11 people (4 computer touchers). One who gives a simple, practical, similar to our real work coding test after a phone interview. gently caress any place that makes you do a coding test before speaking to you. gently caress them so hard. Don't work for them.
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Apr 3, 2021 02:28
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Valeyard posted:this company im dealing with just now, i done the IKM online horrible multiple choice python test for them without ever speaking to anyone from the company (only external recruiters) I am sure working at this company will be great and they consider their employees valuable and deserving of respect.
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Apr 4, 2021 00:46
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Gazpacho posted:in the US they don't necessarily want to but employment law require employers to have a somewhat consistent hiring process No it does not. I think what you're getting at is that there is a fear common amongst US employers that interviewees may sue on some allegation they've been discriminated against and that employers believe a consistent hiring process is a decent affirmative defense to this allegation. AFAIK there is certainly no federal law requiring this and while that fear may or may not be pervasive, tbh I have it a little bit whenever someone mentions some ADA protected thing for no reason in an interview, these lawsuits are actually extremely rare and this isn't a thing worth putting in to practice because usually the lawsuits settle ahead of discovery anyway.
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Apr 18, 2021 23:23
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bob dobbs is dead posted:theres the law as written down and theres the law as written down in lawsuits, because the common law is such a great idea (sometimes unironically so) I'm pretty familiar with how its done in lawsuits, my company's PACER bill last quarter was >$2K and most of it was spent on employment law related case research. EDIT: To be clear I am saying the number of lawsuits per year based on interview discrimination is in the "a couple dozen" order of magnitude, while the number of interviews done in a year is in the dozens of millions order of magnitude. And also that if you DO get one of these lawsuits, it will likely settle before you have a chance to present your awesome consistent hiring process. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Apr 19, 2021 00:02
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QuarkJets posted:hey how do i interview for a director position at a startup mostly agree with above poster. what stage/round is the startup? assuming they’re >200 employees if they’re hiring directors. i only have ~11FTE employees but here’s what I’d ask if I was joining one: -How much runway -what’s the exit strategy? being post series A means you’re trying to go public. imo a company hoping to get bought is a big red flag for risk unless the offer is already in the works -is there a timeline to going public? -what’s the turnover rate at the company? (might try to phrase this nicer)
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Apr 22, 2021 03:03
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Private Speech posted:What about interviews that prohibit googling, I hate those and don't really see the point, especially if using some crappy online IDE without syntax highlighting or suggestions. Very dumb.
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May 3, 2021 13:11
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Hughlander posted:closest thing to an adversial interview I think is appropriate is we have two principals get as deep into tech as the candidate knows. the goal is to understand the depth but more importantly see how they react when they don’t know something. do they become argumentative? cooperative? refuse to acknowledge that they don’t know? this is super useful for everyone from an associate (are they willing to learn) to a manager (must maintain face for the position) and for the later have sunk some prospects. This was how a FAANG company interviewed me about a new grad mechanical engineering role in 2013. Not sure if they still do but tbh it was a pretty fun, though exhausting, interview. Especially because I was doing research in the area they asked me about at the time and had read ~3 textbooks and 50+ papers about the subject within the last year so we got to chat for several hours about a thing I enjoyed studying. That said I dont adopt that style because if I got that same interview now about what I do I would fail miserably even though I am a pretty productive dilettante of a computer toucher.
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May 3, 2021 20:13
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shoeberto posted:Not really an interviewing question per se but I'm spending a lot of time reflecting on my career and have sort of a general question. How bad is it to actually work for a startup? What are the pros and cons? I started a startup that is no in CA, 10 employees, went through YC, and is pre Series A so take those factors into account. I'm gonna present from an employees point of view. Pros: - If its small what you do actually matters - Extremely small chance but maybe it has a favorable exit. A friend of mine worked for a startup for 2 years and made them write his number of shares in an email after they terminated him a couple years ago. They recently IPO'd. He sold his stock and working is basically optional if he manages his money well. - Working at a big company is soul sucking Cons: - There's literally every kind of risk. My cofounder and I never had direct reports before starting this company. It seems like youre in the "high managem,ent risk" company. - Working at a small company can be soul sucking. - Often the pay is below average but if they just raised a round and you can negotiate worth a poo poo maybe not. EDIT: I am v tired and this post wasnt that helpful. If I can answer any "managing or interviewing at a seed stage startup" questions though, please ask. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 01:47 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 01:44
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Phobeste posted:Lol yea honestly I reread me writing that and realized my post was trash
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May 6, 2021 23:05
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I'm getting very tired of working at my current job, and just signed my lease renewal so i'm going to start looking for a new job sometime next year. I'm an absolute dullard and am bad at the whiteboarding/coding interview questions so I think a year gives me a good amount of time to prepare. generally it would be better to apply more places and spend less time studying for an interview that you haven’t been offered yet (and thus don’t know whether it’s a waste of time) you also might learn your resume is poo poo when your phone interview rate is <2%
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May 7, 2021 21:12
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I forgot about leetcode, thanks! Ahh thats useful data then. Best of luck!
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May 7, 2021 22:31
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you might feel special but usual yields from resume->phone is like 40% for peeps who dont have a dog poo poo resume and phone->job is more like 5-20% I think you might overestimate what qualifies as "not poo poo" statistically by comparison to raw # of applicants. If "not poo poo" means easy to read + an eng/CS degree from an ABET accredited school + experience + a GitHub w/commented code yea 40% might be right. I did the math on an entry level python req for the BFC Resume thread as there was some discussion about entry level programming jobs and what degree they held. CarForumPoster posted:I was very curious what the breakdown was since the advice I am leaning toward with strawberrymoose with coding is that he'd better have some good projects to show off because he's gonna have a tough go at coding jobs. TLDR: I had 91 applicants. 43 got more than 15 seconds of me looking at their application. I phone interviewed or strongly considered 18 applicants. Hired 1 applicant. AnimeIsTrash posted:I hope I didn't sound like I was discounting or ignoring your advice as that was not my intention. I do really appreciate the advice. I wasnt being sarcastic. If you have a good conversion rate on applications you shouldn't optimize your resume. I actually wish you the best. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 22:56 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 22:48
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raminasi posted:out of curiosity, was there a non-obvious reason for this or were you just that set on only hiring people who give away their labor in their free time This reply only applies to SW Engineer w/less than 5 yrs full-time experience. Two years ago I started out assuming I wasn't a good judge of resumes, so I'd phone interview a TON of people and if they were even kinda okay, I'd let them tell me a time where they have 48 hours to complete a practical coding test. We mostly build and deploy web apps in Python. I've given a decent number of people the same coding test. The test doesn't prescribe how to do it but gives clear shalls that essentially require a web app to hit a no-authentication-required REST API and returns the data in a sortable table. If you've deployed 2 or 3 Flask/Django apps to Heroku or AWS before, this project can be done in 2 hours. Sadly, I do not find a strong correlation between good practical test outcome and resume quality, so I continue to phone interview people with meh resumes. Hence the large interview list I posted above. I want to believe I am a good phone interviewer but of the people who do decent on the resume AND decent on the phone interview, the project quality still isn't great. When I look at their GitHub and I look at the code they submitted to me, that is a better predictor than phone interviews of the quality of practical project I will get. Thus, to save both of us time, I require and review GitHubs before a phone interview.
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May 8, 2021 00:33
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100% I will cop to missing good early-career candidates with the GitHub requirement. It's my own fault I can't filter them from resume alone, but I can't. I only hire maybe 1-2 computer touchers per year and have no other help hiring so how I optimize my time might not apply to other companies. Hopefully others are better about knowing you're awesome purely from your resume and phone interview. Forums Medic posted:the interviewing thread should be one way, interviewers need not post yea we should only listen to people who've done 10 interviews and exclude the people who make the decisions we care about and have done 100s of interviews. makes sense The Fool posted:requiring a portfolio selects against candidates that are in life situations that don’t lend themselves to a lot of work-outside-of-work free time but could otherwise be excellent employees See previous post where I didnt have this requirement and decided this was okay. I know I'm digging a hole but: Our little 10 person company is and always has been diverse as gently caress on gender and ethnicity. I'm okay excluding those who are privileged enough to not need to make a portfolio. I'm happy that the people I've hired since doing this contribute to the outcomes for the company and contribute different backgrounds and ideas than we might get if I hired along my own biased perception of "good candidates" which, according to data, isn't that good. My biases are bad at hiring, so I use a portfolio.
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May 8, 2021 01:11
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Xarn posted:What makes you think that the people who don't have a portfolio are the privileged ones? because when you’re making $12/hr and have $2k in savings decreasing weekly, or working a job you loving hate but could be making figgies and spending 10 hours polishing up something that is free increases the chance of figgies you find 10 hours because you have to if you’ve already got that job offer from Lockheed for a fresh $75k cause you have a BSCS, internship and a 3.2GPA yea you can skip a GitHub and a LinkedIn.
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May 8, 2021 14:24
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it’s weird af this thread would advocate for polishing a resume, studying for an interview, learning to negotiate as things that improve your job prospects and outcomes but not make a GitHub, something roughly 30% of candidates do, that’s giving your time away for free
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May 8, 2021 15:02
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Truman Peyote posted:I don't think anyone is saying a candidate should not make a github. they're saying an interview should not require it. This is a fair thing to say.
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May 9, 2021 14:45
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Ardemia posted:Just wanted to thank everyone that responded to my post. I have done some checking around, and I have found no fewer than 12 positions near me that pay more and are purely web development. I do live outside of major tech areas, but close enough to a few secondary ones that I could manage something 80% remote easily. Going to get whatever raise I can and start applying to other jobs this week. thanks goons There's a LOT of companies going 100% remote. Competition can be stiffer but thats what resume threads and autofill plugins are for.
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May 13, 2021 03:08
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Poopernickel posted:Don't wait for your review cycle for this kind of thing. If your review comes in and your boss says "congrats I got you a 5% raise this year", then it's already a done deal. Poopernickel posted:For others reading - if your boss says "it's too early to talk about this", then follow up on it in a month, and in the month after, and in the month after. Good advice ime. raminasi posted:it happened over the course of a month lol What a good boss.
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May 14, 2021 16:03
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asur posted:If a company is pushing you to accept while you're waiting for other interviews then do so and bail if a later place has a better offer. Unless you're in a very niche area the bridges you potentially burn by doing this are inconsequential and you should do what's best for you. This often does burn the bridge, especially at a smaller company, so avoid being a dick when possible. If you wonder why companies dont send rejection emails to potential candidates, or go radio silent for 3+ weeks and then contact you later. Someone agreed to start and then bailed. That's at will employment though, cuts both ways.
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May 16, 2021 20:18
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GenJoe posted:it's worth noting that negotiating at the FAANGS is predicated on you have a competing FAANG (or FAANG-lite) offer -- this is anecdotal to me and the people I know but they won't even entertain negotiations unless you have a competing offer because they know that they're likely already coming in significantly above your existing salary This was not true for me at a FAANG in 2013 where, right of of a mediocre school with a 3.0 GPA, I got $+5K SOB and $5k/yr in RSUs by basically asking for it. This may or may not be true in other situations and was for a mech engineering position. I did not have a competing FAANG or a BATNA that was comparable.
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May 22, 2021 19:14
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anyone ever lol at making >$150k without going to med school and maybe without going to extra school at all literal life saving people make what you make for writing code that is always marching toward obsolescence, often never actually sees the light of prod not arguing against this system its just really somethin EDIT: the 25th percentile of pediatricians is $126k EDIT2: I forgot about drs fellowship prob bringing that number down in a big way, still tho CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 22:20
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handle you need to post your actual resume in here or the BFC resume thread and find a couple job reqs you’d want to apply for. I think some of the advice might be kinda optimistic but can’t tell because I don’t know what your stats are or who you’d be competing with application wise that said you can def count what you described as relevant for the purposes of an entry level programmer job
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May 23, 2021 12:25
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kitten smoothie posted:Meanwhile I used to write software for cancer research and treatment and was paid all of $75K for it that sounds sweet I am doing too much toilet posting r n and anyway if the treatment worked I’m American so I couldn’t afford it might as well crush candy
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May 23, 2021 16:13
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DELETE CASCADE posted:how many junior devs have we all hired who have the resume pedigree, but not the drive? one and it was a hard lesson learned that said, the number of driven junior devs I’ve hired who don’t have the resume to do the job is 0 which is probably an obstacle for handle today that can be fixed within 6 weeks if driven
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May 23, 2021 21:44
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Achmed Jones posted:hey handle: This is very good advice. If you wanna seem like you actually totally did consulting for real though form an LLC. Its also cheap and easy. This is nice to have too because if you get fired you can always truthfully say you worked for DaShitpostBoss, LLC Putting a github together now and starting to commit and star poo poo and fork poo poo is a good way to build a paper trail of your computer touching experience as well. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 02:17 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 02:14
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toiletbrush posted:drive and aptitude is hard to communicate in a CV strongly disagree you show it by accomplishing things that are relatively easy to verify - increasing responsibilities with the same employer - publishing web apps and code to GitHub - having a consultancy that has a real legal entity and people to vouch for it - ???your idea here??? CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 25, 2021 |
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May 25, 2021 00:28
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Arcsech posted:- Peter principle, increasing responsibilities at the same company doesn't mean much. and if they're a dick like handles employers you can have all the drive in the world and get dick all When interviewers look at resumes to try to find "aptitude" and "drive" the things I said are things that some hiring managers look for. That promotion history, life circumstances or resumes in general result in unfair distribution of interviews or the best candidate not getting the job is irrelevant to helping goons get computer toucher jobs. Even managers who are aware of those biases still often look for those things.
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Arcsech posted:sure, that's what people look for when they look for "drive". but it's a lovely way of looking for it. but people still do it because drive is hard to communicate in a resume The audience the resume is communicating to is the interviewer. If interviewers see a list of easily verified accomplishments and perceive the candidate as potentially driven it has been communicated. It may be that interviewers looking for drive this way is unfair, biased, and/or bad for society. Its not hard to communicate to those unfair biases tho.
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May 25, 2021 03:19
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