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The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

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Re: The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

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Post by webmaven »

commandlinefan wrote: post #228
DoreenMichele wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are real world examples that support that claim. Aflac always said "We hire everyone because we sell to everyone." Having internal people from different demographic groups helped with things like cultural sensitivity. But I imagine that is only true if it's done right and probably just setting some kind of quota to hire more of X type demographic is not it.

Yeah sure, but that's the "product focus group" example. I've never seen any research that supports this claim for engineering groups, or accounting groups, or even HR itself.

Using that definition, isn't every pre-product-market-fit startup a focus group?

Re: The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

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Post by kelnos »

rightbyte wrote: post #568
kelnos wrote: post #341

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> I guess you need to remember your lies? Or don't say you are single when you have wife and three kids. Yeah, that's the odd thing. You'd think that the guy who handled the interviews would have gotten some background on the guy who would actually join the company and adjusted his small-talk story to match. Then again, the low-effort approach "worked", at least to get the guy hired. If the interviewed guy was gettin…

Sure. But he had the wrong hair and glasses etc. It feels like one of these things a scammer would think about, assuming the scammers are not incompetent. Imagine the opposing side write up of this. Note that HR did not confront him with allegations of fraud. "My boss is staring at me with a confused look. My smalltalk about my family made him leave the room hastely. Lawers are lurking around in the hallway. They sta…

> But he had the wrong hair and glasses etc. It feels like one of these things a scammer would think about, assuming the scammers are not incompetent.

If the scam was just a dude hiring someone off the internet to attend his interview, the guy who interviewed may not have cared about what happened after the interview (or after an offer was given), as he already got paid. So he might not have expended the effort to make himself more like the "real" potential employee.

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