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A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Post by lostdog »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #78
typon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had a similar experience. The recruiting part of the process went pretty smoothly, until I got to the onsite. Had 5 on-site interviews (excluding lunch), all exactly the same format: walk in the room where my interviewer is waiting with a question written on the white board, they say "hello" to me and I'm expected to read the question, clarify it a little bit and start coding. Not a single interviewer cared about my…

>> and the feedback was that I need to practice my algorithms more. I'm optimistic I will live long enough to see the death of this type of interview. Great gate-keeper question, easy to mark, next to zero signalling value as to ability to problem solve or program. Sigh...

What would you consider to be a good interview question?

Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Post by throwaway86530 »

The author delayed his attempt to do something about the cult and got fired because he planned to do so. It would have been better to be fired after raising concerns to the HR. This would have been both more ethical and would also give a more solid ground for the trial, so that's a bit sad. Yet, that's so much better than the tons of people who knew and did nothing. Good luck to him!

Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Post by Melatonic »

throwaway86530 wrote: post #152

The author delayed his attempt to do something about the cult and got fired because he planned to do so. It would have been better to be fired after raising concerns to the HR. This would have been both more ethical and would also give a more solid ground for the trial, so that's a bit sad. Yet, that's so much better than the tons of people who knew and did nothing. Good luck to him!

There is also the little tidbit about him joining the Alphabet Union recently.....

Surely not related and they could not have fired him for joining a union right.... right?!

As far as I know however that would also be highly illegal - interesting story to follow for sure

Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Post by dexwiz »

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn this is a common occurrence across tech. Coming from the Midwest, the West Coast seems full of cults. Talking to people, it doesn’t take long to find someone who was raised in a cult, or has family members in a cult.

Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Post by akomtu »

Suing a cult with hundreds of members is a dumb idea: they'll turn vindictive and will go after you. Instead, you appear mildly suppotive and friendly to them, gather information, give them publicity via media outlets, and give anonymous tips to FBI.

Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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throwaway86530 wrote: post #152

The author delayed his attempt to do something about the cult and got fired because he planned to do so. It would have been better to be fired after raising concerns to the HR. This would have been both more ethical and would also give a more solid ground for the trial, so that's a bit sad. Yet, that's so much better than the tons of people who knew and did nothing. Good luck to him!

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Re: A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

kradeelav wrote: post #153

Not going as far to say "anyone currently at Google is morally compromised" - but anyone who knows about this, and stays is ... not somebody who I'd want to associate with. Or hire for that matter.

If I only worked at companies that weren't "basically evil", I would have to work for myself - and I'm sure if I looked hard enough (and definitely if someone else did), I wouldn't even be able to do that.
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