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I wonder how they determine an applicant's ethnicity. Is it by the name?
"We only attempt to identify adverse impact based on self-reported racial information and do not impute data, noting that we do not have access to features like applicant name. 62.35% of all applicants in the data do not self-report race as belonging to one of the four racial groups we study."
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I am miserably bad at soft-skills interviews and never get past this round. Been over a year since I've had somebody actually try to assess my technical competency in any real capacity. I'm also getting maybe 1 INITIAL interview every 3 months right now because of this AI screening stuff and I just haven't felt like re-writing my resume to game them.
Aren’t soft skills much more important than hard skills when it comes to building a team?
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I don't have a dog in the race, also I'm not based in the US, but aren't intelligence tests for hiring illegal in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co .
Not if they are dressed up in a particular way, and not if intelligence is genuinely relevant. I have done a few of these tests for jobs in the US before. They are just bad.
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I am miserably bad at soft-skills interviews and never get past this round. Been over a year since I've had somebody actually try to assess my technical competency in any real capacity. I'm also getting maybe 1 INITIAL interview every 3 months right now because of this AI screening stuff and I just haven't felt like re-writing my resume to game them.
Aren’t soft skills much more important than hard skills when it comes to building a team?
The guy from the carbon fiber + silver tape titanic sub had super people skills. But if you don’t want to be crushed in a submarine by a 10.000 feet water column, you’ll rather have the clumsy/awkward/jerk guy with superb tech skills leading the project.
This is keeping me out of work at the moment. The usual flow is that I have a great HR interview, then I'm assigned an online intelligence (what dots should be in the next box) test and a personality test, and then the company wants nothing to do with me. They manage to screen me out before I have the opportunity to talk about anything computing related . (The old horror-stories of 'I couldn't reverse a BST on a whit…
I don't have a dog in the race, also I'm not based in the US, but aren't intelligence tests for hiring illegal in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co .
This is keeping me out of work at the moment. The usual flow is that I have a great HR interview, then I'm assigned an online intelligence (what dots should be in the next box) test and a personality test, and then the company wants nothing to do with me. They manage to screen me out before I have the opportunity to talk about anything computing related . (The old horror-stories of 'I couldn't reverse a BST on a whit…
I passed a series of those and since I remembered the questions from a relatives autism diagnosis testing I asked what they do since they are effectively filtering for things like that. HR rep said those applicants should probably go see a shrink instead (!!???) and that was the end of me interviewing there. The testing needs to end. The people using these tools don't know how they work, what they are testing and wha…
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I don't have a dog in the race, also I'm not based in the US, but aren't intelligence tests for hiring illegal in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co .
Coinbase wanted me to do one before I did the second round of interviews and I'm in the US. Intelligence and personality tests. Wound up telling them that I didn't want to enable the type of discrimination they facilitate and that with the best faith reasoning for using them is at best a sign the company is indexing on the wrong things for hiring.
Anyway, they did layoffs like 2 weeks later so I guess I dodged a bullet there.
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Highly dependent on ones specific financial situation, risk-tolerance, and employment trajectory. While not a personal preference, most acquire revenue properties as they build equity over time. Assets secure lower loan rates, qualify mortgage fixed-payment schedules on investments, and require good management-companies to handle leases. Generally, mitigating tax exposures by investing in small businesses is still po…
So basically, in order to have a steady stream of money coming in, you need to start with having a steady stream of money coming in? :-D
Others spend their lives making decisions out of impulsive narcissism. Unless you are a trust-fund kid, life can have very real consequences if things go sideways.
Most will learn the hard way... only lawyers and politicians get paid for excuses in life. =3
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Highly dependent on ones specific financial situation, risk-tolerance, and employment trajectory. While not a personal preference, most acquire revenue properties as they build equity over time. Assets secure lower loan rates, qualify mortgage fixed-payment schedules on investments, and require good management-companies to handle leases. Generally, mitigating tax exposures by investing in small businesses is still po…
So basically, in order to have a steady stream of money coming in, you need to start with having a steady stream of money coming in? :-D
This is keeping me out of work at the moment. The usual flow is that I have a great HR interview, then I'm assigned an online intelligence (what dots should be in the next box) test and a personality test, and then the company wants nothing to do with me. They manage to screen me out before I have the opportunity to talk about anything computing related . (The old horror-stories of 'I couldn't reverse a BST on a whit…
1) these tests are valid and objective
2) they are qualified to understand how personalities would interact in a complex system
It's astrology for professionals, and companies have let themselves be captured by what are effectively religious zealots.