Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

Post by foobaw » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 10:09 PM UTC

DataWorker wrote: post #58

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If you pay them you get good customer service. Google Play, YouTube Red, Chromecast, Chromebook, Nexus, all have pretty good service.

I completely disagree. Recently did a factory reset on my nexus only to find out that without the password for the last sync'd google account, a throwaway I don't remember, it's bricked. I can report it stolen on the device page, can easily prove to google it's my device, but I can't reset or sell or do anything with the phone. Google's response after spending days trying to fix, and talking to different support peop…

Post by dantiberian » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 10:12 PM UTC

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She donated all of her share ($150m) to charity to boot.

For an extra $30MM in tax write-offs... because clearly she stands to make more taxable income than the $150MM in stock she donated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10844592 .

Post by ksk » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 10:20 PM UTC

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>cannot be factory reset without the original owner's permission) Presumably the permission should come _before_ the reset? After the reset, all the data is gone anyway, and asking the password at that point seems pointless since > I I read it as - "I did a completely normal thing like performing a factory reset of a consumer device (something that people have been doing for over a decade)"

>Presumably the permission should come _before_ the reset? After the reset, all the data is gone anyway, and asking the password at that point seems pointless since The point, in this case, is not to keep the data secure, but to disincentivise theft of the device. You cannot resell a phone that prevents someone from using the device. >I read it as - "I did a completely normal thing like performing a factory reset of…

Post by cdno9 » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 10:27 PM UTC

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I've never seen the claim made that Lever only hires for 50/50 male/female developer teams. Can you cite a source on that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353146

Post by biztos » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 10:33 PM UTC

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I said nothing about corporate customers . I'm talking about individual accounts, and individual devices. Google knows where I go, who I talk to, how long I'm at places, how long I spend in the office, and on, and on, and on. And at an aggregate, they know how busy every shop is, the types of people that visit, etc. They're quite forthright about this. Through personal accounts -- which Google quite openly mines -- G…

It is in violation of Google's core principles and policies, and will never happen. Ever googler understands, and has it hammered into their brains repeatedly, that the worst thing the company could do is breach user trust by exposing or trading on user/customer data.