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Why I Won't Hire You

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Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by nikki9696 »

wccrawford wrote: post #93
edw519 wrote: post #42

I am expecting you to be one of the 99%+ people who I know I won’t hire in the first 5 minutes. If you can't narrow down resumes and phone interviews to candidates with better than a 1% chance of being accepted, then your interviewing pre-screening process is flawed. What other processes in our everyday work will also be flawed? You send me a stupidly long resume 90% of all written correspondence (from customers, use…

Pretty much exactly right. 1 difference for me, though. I already know what I want to be when I grow up: A programmer! Yes, I've reached the end of my career. I'm where I want to be, and I don't want to change. I don't want to be a manager, team leader, or otherwise do anything other than programming. If there were any change I wanted, it would be 'do fewer non-programming things'.

THANK YOU! I feel the same way. Why is it that people who supposedly love programming are somehow expected to no longer want to be programmers at some point in their career? Being a great manager / team leader takes a whole different skill set than being a great coder.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by GiraffeNecktie »

csomar wrote: post #40
GiraffeNecktie wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple of points: - I don't get that he's asking for the moon. He just wants competent people who have a reason to work beyond money and aren't going to be a PITA to him and his team. That seems pretty fundamental to me. Why should it command double or triple an average salary? I don't get it. - The market will decide. If what he's looking for is rare, he'll have to pay more to get it. If it's not, he'll pay the go…

No. He is being an ass in the way he is stating it. - You send me a stupidly long resume - forget it . You have annoyed me - More likely, I will ignore the whole thing - If you can’t nail it in one sentence, do I really want to look forward to your rambling emails every day? WOW. Okay Sir. Something else? Now there is nothing wrong with what he is asking for. Can you tell that politely - Please send me a short and co…

I think you are missing the point that this is simply intended to provide insight into what is going on inside the head of the person who is doing the hiring. They might be excruciatingly polite in what they say to you directly and personally, but in their mind they are thinking "Why is this fool wasting my time with this stupidly long resume." He's telling the world in blunt terms the reality of what it takes to get hired and how people are going to see you. He's not composing a personal letter to you.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by [deleted] »

ntkachov wrote: post #28

>If I have to spend more than 30 seconds finding out what you have accomplished, forget it. Well then, Don't expect me to even bother writing a cover letter or tailor my resume. In fact, if your only going to be scanning over my resume in 30 seconds why, on earth, should I even spend any time filling out your form to send you my resume? When I send people my resume, I at the very least expect them to read through it.…

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Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by ww520 »

nimblegorilla wrote: post #82
eykanal wrote: post #8

I disagree with most of this post, and I'm glad I didn't apply to any position with him as an interviewer. Specifically: You can’t tell me why you like your current job - Maybe I hate my current job, and took it to pay the bills. Maybe I actually did take it because I like the challenge. Sure, I could and should give more details about it, but that's a valid response, which shouldn't be thrown out so quickly. While t…

How many people have you interviewed? I haven't done a lot, but when I was interviewing a lot of people for a couple positions it seemed like everyone said they were "creative" or "liked a challenge." Claiming they were creative didn't really disqualify, but it didn't make anyone stand out unless they had a couple examples.

You ask general generic questions and you will get general standard answers. Try asking engaging questions that can get more specific answers. Like "can you give me an example where you devised a creative solution to a problem?"

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by queensnake »

ntkachov wrote: post #28

>If I have to spend more than 30 seconds finding out what you have accomplished, forget it. Well then, Don't expect me to even bother writing a cover letter or tailor my resume. In fact, if your only going to be scanning over my resume in 30 seconds why, on earth, should I even spend any time filling out your form to send you my resume? When I send people my resume, I at the very least expect them to read through it.…

> When I send people my resume, I at the very least expect them to read through it.

Wait till you're on the employing side, like, even, your boss asks you to look over /100+ resumes/ that are 95% irrelevant.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by triviatise »

Peroni wrote: post #66
edw519 wrote: post #42

I am expecting you to be one of the 99%+ people who I know I won’t hire in the first 5 minutes. If you can't narrow down resumes and phone interviews to candidates with better than a 1% chance of being accepted, then your interviewing pre-screening process is flawed. What other processes in our everyday work will also be flawed? You send me a stupidly long resume 90% of all written correspondence (from customers, use…

Thank you. Interviews are a two way street. If I am applying for a job, my role during the interview is to convince you why I am a worthwhile hire, your role during the interview is to convince me that you are a worthwhile employer. If he was one of my clients I would disassociate myself from him very quickly. As for his 5 points, I wonder if he realises that all 5 inversely apply to him just as much as they do to th…

this is absolutely true. almost 100% of job ads are terrible. They are focused exclusively on what the company wants. Instead the ads should be marketing to attract the best. The ads should explain why someone great would want to work there.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by groggles »

HN has been soundly trolled.

This guy -- who apparently rejects 99% of interviewees -- apparently runs a single-person company of dubious purpose. This absurdly trollish post is over the top because that's what ensured it a front-page showing.

Kudos on the pagerank earned by trolling the gullible folks on HN.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by triviatise »

zalew wrote: post #11
csomar wrote: post #6

Why I Won't Work For You: Because you are a dick. Now who are you? What are you going to give me in return? Why should I tell you that I love my job and my career. Why should I tell you about my vision and plans? What are you really looking for in that. The hiring should be a lot simpler: - You have a problem. You need someone with the right skills, and hire him. - I have a problem (need money). I pick a job that I h…

Why should I tell you about my vision and plans? What are you really looking for in that. These 'where do you see yourself in 5 years' questions sound like straight from a 'HR for dummies' book. I would really appreciate if an interviewer reading this post explained me what such cliches are trying to test, other than BS skills. Cliche question => cliche response.

I ask this question to better understand whether we can provide an environment that will be right for the candidate in 5 years. I dont want to hire someone that wont have a shot at achieving their long term goals with us because it wouldnt be fair to them.

On the flip side, I just hired a new finance person. I wanted someone who can eventually become a controller then CFO. I have no idea if they are really capable of it, but I want them to at least want it and to have demonstrated some activities to have tried working towards it.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by triviatise »

asolove wrote: post #60
zalew wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am glad that there are people like you for whom 'running your own company' isn't a bad answer . I think most people are afraid to tell the truth and choose the cliche path about climbing the ladder of success in company X, being afraid of rejection. And to be honest: how many companies out there want someone who tells them right away that experience and money obtained during their job is only to quit on the first m…

This is how I got hired. The manager talked with me for a while, and then looked me straight in the eye and said: in three years, you need to either be a technical lead or start your own company or you're going to be miserable. If you pick which of those paths you want, we'll help you get there through the work you do here. So honestly, the question is: would you want to work for a company that wants you to lie to th…

We would love to have someone like that for 3 years. I would then try to pitch them on how we might help them to accomplish that.

Re: Why I Won't Hire You

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Post by steve-howard »

zalew wrote: post #74
prophetjohn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do I really want to look forward to your sour attitude every day? This sums it up for me. The author sounds like a grumpy person who would be terrible to work for. I also suspect many of these rejections are self-fulfilling prophecies. When you're actively looking for a reason to reject candidates, you're probably going to find one.

and this: > Do you have hiring war stories (interviewer or interviewee)? Share them in the comments! looking for an employee is a WAR for this guy?!!

Well let's be fair now. "War stories" is an expression.
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