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Why expend additional effort to filter along meaningless axes to wind up with some unknown lesser number of applicants (which you might then want to shrink furt
by dllthomas 11y ago
Why expend additional effort to filter along meaningless axes to wind up with some unknown lesser number of applicants (which you might then want to shrink further) when you can already filter meaninglessly to end up with precisely the number of applications you want (by simply grabbing randomly and dropping the others on the floor)?
- potatolicious 11y agoBecause it lets people feel better about themselves and is - superficially - justifiable. A lot of what we do in hiring, even in tech, is effectively just ways to whittle down numbers of applicants, but even here on HN there are people who will insist their way of whittling numbers down improves the applicant pool, because hand-waving and superficial logic.
- dllthomas 11y agoI buy that - I was probably reading the "just" too strongly in "just because it cuts down the number of applicants".