Bill Gates Resume (1974)

Post by cosmodisk » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 3:56 PM UTC

iratewizard wrote: post #48

Zombieball wrote: post #43

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Do a lot of first year computer science students get paid $75k/year? I know internships can easily earn that but my understanding is they go to 4th year students.

A lot of first year cs students have under a year of experience and can only list python, Java and possibly C++ under proficiencies. What's more sad is when you try hiring at a job fair and 300 4th year / master's students also only have python/Java/C++ with no side projects.

Post by jimmaswell » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 4:03 PM UTC

quietthrow wrote: post #5

Waterluvian wrote: post #2

Despite it being a violation today, I get the point of wanting to know marital status. But why height and weight?

“Attractability” of a candidate was not limited to their skills. As in some parts of the world today we know that these things are largely orthogonal to performance at job. As rational and simple as that sounds today, back in the day knowing these details was equally rational and simple. We just find it difficult to get that point of view since we didn’t live in that time. This is the same as ageism today. “Young peo…

Post by magerleagues » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 4:11 PM UTC

Post by random42 » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

rand84545 wrote: post #23

I'm amused that such a resume would be binned by many HR departments. That is some HR depatments, are so bad at their job, that they will literally lose your company the chance to get a Bill-gates-caliber dev. I mean obviously if he gets to the technical interview, an engineer can see that he is competent. But they question is would such a resume get past HR?

Post by tasuki » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

jimmaswell wrote: post #63

quietthrow wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Attractability” of a candidate was not limited to their skills. As in some parts of the world today we know that these things are largely orthogonal to performance at job. As rational and simple as that sounds today, back in the day knowing these details was equally rational and simple. We just find it difficult to get that point of view since we didn’t live in that time. This is the same as ageism today. “Young peo…

Is the belief really that age is irrelevant to mental performance, or do we just want people to be able to continue being employed for moral reasons?