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Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by product50 »

lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

This is not for you. This is for your company to use. It's tied to Google Suite.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by dragonwriter »

_pmf_ wrote: post #16
lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

Couple that with the fact that they do not offer anything that deserves the moniker "customer service".

I've gotten excellent customer service from them with Google Express. They certainly can offer good customer service where they choose to.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by halite »

lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

Even without reading the article, this is what I came to add. Now they have a service of this nature, the need and urgency of saying goodbye to Google has increased tremedously.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by Spivak »

_pmf_ wrote: post #16
lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

Couple that with the fact that they do not offer anything that deserves the moniker "customer service".

If you pay them you get good customer service. Google Play, YouTube Red, Chromecast, Chromebook, Nexus, all have pretty good service.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by w00bl3ywook »

bamboo_7 wrote: post #6

"Google says Hire is meant to help businesses do away with manually tracking candidates. " Right, because there's no other software that exists to track applicants: http://www.softwareadvice.com/hr/applicant-tracking-software...

eh? where does Google say it's the ONLY software to track applicants?

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by halite »

product50 wrote: post #21
lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

This is not for you. This is for your company to use. It's tied to Google Suite.

Why is it useful to a company unless Google provides "value add" features that are better than thousands of other services for hiring.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by Jonnax »

lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

It is certainly annoying with how they try and nudge other products away in subtle ways. Like like Firefox on Android, works really well. However on Google's search, they give you a stripped down version of their search results inferior to what Chrome gets.

Use an addon like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-...

And you find out that Firefox has no problem rendering the full featured chrome version.

I assume the only reason they do it is so that Firefox for Android users feel slightly inconvenienced enough to remain Chrome users.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by [deleted] »

lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

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Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by [deleted] »

lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

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Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by Androider »

I was just about to select a recruitment management service. Both Lever and Greenhouse has "call us" pricing, and sadly Google Hire follows the same trend. Only Workable has a clear pricing page, which gives them a big plus in my book. Since we're on G Suite, Hire could be a natural fit but the requirement to book a demo (and the accompanying upside-down shaking to see how much money falls out of our pockets) is a big turn-off.

Would love to hear experiences from someone who has for example tried both Workable and Lever.

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