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those are the people you should hire. why would you pay to reinvent the wheel when you really need someone to invent better IAM controls?
Because people who are both incompetent and deceitful are an utter waste of everybody's time, and also a liability?
...so what is the answer to 27 : 24 :: 64 : ?
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What's the non-inept way to stop cheating on the test? They can't ask the applicant to walk into their neighborhood Faraday cage.
Not administer it in the first place. Paid homework projects are far superior. Plagiarism checks can be run on the provided solutions, and a follow-up conversation concerning the project at the interview should easily suss out anyone who had a third party to do it for them. That approach also has the advantage of actually being a relevant to the position—unlike some generalized intelligence test. Frankly if people ar…
This will lead to hiring people who can be coached until they sort of understand a solution, although they still couldn't create it.
For anyone else curious, I got the following answers: 1) Fan fiction websites have pros and cons for the authors 2) Both the conclusions are true 3) UVS (the only one not in reverse alphabetical order) 4) 60 (because 3^3=27, 3^3-3=24, 4^4=64, 4^4-4=60)
1) Some authors feel that they created a good story, but it is not appreciated as much as the fan fiction versions.
2) Only conclusion 1 is true (assume X = 0, then conclusion 2 is false).
3) POM, the only one that doesn't have two consonants in a row.
4) 63, because it's always an even number and an odd number.
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Because people who are both incompetent and deceitful are an utter waste of everybody's time, and also a liability?
we both know those people make it past fizbuzz anyways, and they are left in the dust fairly quickly anyways.
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If some corporation did want to be racist (which has not been established), they'd hardly need fancy face-analysis technology to do it. They could, you know, just look at the applicants.
Blatant old-fashioned racism would be very obvious - new fangled data science racism is more insidious.
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So straight off the bat their eliminating linux users, who you'd think would be a large part of their target market. >a basic calculator (please do not plan to use your phone, computer, or graphing calculator) Who even has a basic calculator anymore?
You can get them from the dollar store.
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Well if you participate in an on-site test which the person was willing to do you are essentially tested under the same conditions, so I'd not really consider this to be a privacy invasion.
You're presumably giving them a view into your home and its location. You'd potentially be required to change security settings on your computer, to re-enable things that had been explicitly disabled. You're likely to also want to close whichever browser tabs or open programs that might be deemed unprofessional. Those are all things that I'd consider invasive that I don't have to deal with during an in-person intervi…
And given that all of this happens voluntarily, and assuming that Amazon isn't going to infect you with malware(which seems very unlikely) this kind of testing is a great opportunity for people who have the resources or time to show up in person.
There's some kind of privacy chauvinism involved in these discussions that ignores the realities of people who don't live next to the Amazon HQ.
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I'm so tired of the assertion that it's "difficult" to fire someone, even insofar as "difficult" means "HR won't allow it." HR's reasons are stupid, particularly if you're in a so-called "right to work" state. I work on multi-million dollar lawsuits for a living, and in every single employment suit I've worked on involving an individual who was fired from a large organization, that person had already been through som…
How are you defining "right to work" in this context? I thought that had to do with not requiring employees to join a labor union?
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You can get them from the dollar store.
Sure, but that requires me to actually go out and buy a calculator. For a single use. It's so incredibly wasteful and forces me to go completely out of my way to complete the process.