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Not even close for me. I would no sooner discount someone who worked for Yahoo anymore than I would give high-mark credence to those who work at Google or Face
by jroseattle 11y ago
Not even close for me.
I would no sooner discount someone who worked for Yahoo anymore than I would give high-mark credence to those who work at Google or Facebook.
Trust buy verify.
- danieltillett 11y agoTrust buy verify Is this a typo or are you deliberately trying to be profound as this is quite clever.
- sangnoir 11y agoIt's a Russian proverb[1] made famous by Ronald Reagan during the cold war. Offtopic: before today, I was unaware of the (alleged) Russian roots of the statement and assumed Reagan coined it. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
- jroseattle 11y agoIt's deliberate -- although I don't know about being "profound". :-) In other words, while I take prior places of employment as signal (just as others do), I tend to discount it heavily. I know smart people working at not-great places, as well as people I would never hire working at some very well-respected companies. In the end, I'm hiring the person now, not their history.
- jroseattle 11y agoActually just re-read this: YES, typo. My bad. "Trust but verify."
- danieltillett 11y agoI like the typo more - there are so many ways to parse it :)