I think you're correct re the signalling. Any org with this on the books is going to be rife with bureaucracy. For better or worse you'll have to decide how much you care.
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#12I was asked, not only for all my paper work from school to university, but also human reference from each school and university with whom they could talk :) And this was by one of the world leaders in the tech field. And then they spent the next one month doing background check using an "agency".
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#13I think it’s common. A large and well managed company usually doesn’t want to pay someone a lot more than someone else without any reason, so they have internal rules. For example they will pay more someone with a master degree than someone with a bachelor degree. And they want proofs of your degrees because sometimes people lie. The rules may be stupid and you may think they are unnecessary, but it’s not a red flag…
> For example they will pay more someone with a master degree than someone with a bachelor degree.
This is ridiculous! There are lots of examples in the tech world where people with less education have performed very well than those with higher degrees. I have worked with few of them who went on to create a very profitable new revenue stream in gaming for a very well-known company.
Higher degree != better candidate.
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#14I'm not familiar with [location redacted], but in Poland you need to prove your work history and education to calculate how much time off you get (e.g. if you have a degree and 2 years of work history, you get 26 days of PTO a year, otherwise you get 20 days). It seems like such a minor thing that you could get it clarified by calling them instead of posting on HN.
I want to work in Poland now
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#15I think it’s common. A large and well managed company usually doesn’t want to pay someone a lot more than someone else without any reason, so they have internal rules. For example they will pay more someone with a master degree than someone with a bachelor degree. And they want proofs of your degrees because sometimes people lie. The rules may be stupid and you may think they are unnecessary, but it’s not a red flag…
> For example they will pay more someone with a master degree than someone with a bachelor degree. This is ridiculous! There are lots of examples in the tech world where people with less education have performed very well than those with higher degrees. I have worked with few of them who went on to create a very profitable new revenue stream in gaming for a very well-known company. Higher degree != better candidate.
It was an example and you can indeed find a few exceptions.