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Re: Throw It in the Pile

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Post by MandieD »

deregulateMed wrote: post #8
MandieD wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a candidate can’t give a good-quality written answer to a job-related question when given several hours or days, would you really want to rely on them to provide usable bug/feature descriptions or documentation later, when they have other time pressures?

Maybe the candidate realizes they are in high demand and don't need to waste time. I wont interview/apply at some notorious companies because I know I can get an equal offer without jumping through hoops. So you lose out on the highest demand candidates and get the most desperate candidates.

And lose out on (potentially) excellent coders who can’t (or won’t) put their thoughts about a requested technical topic in writing, in favor of decent (or better) coders who can explain and defend their decisions.

Wonderful! Saves us all time, money and frustration!

Re: Throw It in the Pile

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Post by rendall »

swiley wrote: post #9
simonbarker87 wrote: post #2

I can see why the demise of CV/Resume is discussed a lot but I don’t see it going anywhere because it is so easy to automate the reading as an initial screening. Sadly most hiring practices are about minimising the chance of making a bad hire rather than maximising the chance of a great hire and the resume provides a lot of good initial signals to that end without a human needing to be involved. I would love the CV t…

>LinkedIn No! Vendor lock-in Horrible privacy track record "Dark-patterns"/manipulation before it was even popular Absolutely not.

Agreed.

Remember the dark pattern of "To which of these Google contacts would you like us to send an invite?" Then they would show a list of what was apparently about 10 people, prechecked, and you would uncheck the ones you did not want to include. But hidden below the fold, this list was actually all of your Google contacts. Selecting send would blast your entire contact list. Including exes, their exes, people with whom one might be in a legal dispute, mistaken emails, people you had to fire, or got fired by. A goddamned disaster, that was.

To this day I open LinkedIn only in its own sandboxed browser.

Re: Throw It in the Pile

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Post by 3maj »

deregulateMed wrote: post #8
MandieD wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a candidate can’t give a good-quality written answer to a job-related question when given several hours or days, would you really want to rely on them to provide usable bug/feature descriptions or documentation later, when they have other time pressures?

Maybe the candidate realizes they are in high demand and don't need to waste time. I wont interview/apply at some notorious companies because I know I can get an equal offer without jumping through hoops. So you lose out on the highest demand candidates and get the most desperate candidates.

Agreed, if a hiring page asks me to upload my resume and then asks me to manually enter all the info along with answering extra questions I will close the application. It's not worth my time, especially if they can't be bothered to pull the info from my resume and auto populate the resume section.

Re: Throw It in the Pile

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Post by deregulateMed »

MandieD wrote: post #11
deregulateMed wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the candidate realizes they are in high demand and don't need to waste time. I wont interview/apply at some notorious companies because I know I can get an equal offer without jumping through hoops. So you lose out on the highest demand candidates and get the most desperate candidates.

And lose out on (potentially) excellent coders who can’t (or won’t) put their thoughts about a requested technical topic in writing, in favor of decent (or better) coders who can explain and defend their decisions. Wonderful! Saves us all time, money and frustration!

This assumes no interview stage.

Re: Throw It in the Pile

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Post by laurent92 »

rendall wrote: post #12
swiley wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>LinkedIn No! Vendor lock-in Horrible privacy track record "Dark-patterns"/manipulation before it was even popular Absolutely not.

Agreed. Remember the dark pattern of "To which of these Google contacts would you like us to send an invite?" Then they would show a list of what was apparently about 10 people, prechecked, and you would un check the ones you did not want to include. But hidden below the fold , this list was actually all of your Google contacts. Selecting send would blast your entire contact list. Including exes, their exes, people w…

And if you had been on the receiving end: It would prompt you dozens of times, every month if necessary, if you didn’t open a LinkedIn account with the same email address as your high school janitor used when she invited you.

To this day I still have the automated rule that classifies LinkedIn email as spam. Their spam score must be the highest of the world.

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