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Fascinating but flawed. > By targeting internet companies in particular, I’d chosen an industry with a high likelihood of reliance on resume-processing algorit
by abraae 10y ago
Fascinating but flawed.
> By targeting internet companies in particular, I’d chosen an industry with a high likelihood of reliance on resume-processing algorithms.
Internet companies hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowflakes.
By contrast banks, insurance companies and departments like call center hire armies of drones.
You are much more likely to find automated resume analysis in the latter, it works much better there.
- autokad 10y agoits really hard to apply to a large number of non-tech companies though. they make you go through sign up processes, ask you to fill out everything you already put on your resume, etc.
- theparanoid 10y agoProgramming is nothing special. You're an employee just like any other.
- piptastic 10y agoI don't think that's 100% true. It's like hiring an NFL player.. you get the talent you pay for (sometimes)
- lostboys67 10y agoSo you think a professional job is exactly the same as working on a supermarket checkout? An attitude like that will get you filtered out as not a culture match in a lot of places.
- _pmf_ 10y ago> So you think a professional job is exactly the same as working on a supermarket checkout? > An attitude like that will get you filtered out as not a culture match in a lot of places. There are people who are able to work with people who do not much their culture perfectly, you know. There are even people who like working with people of differing experience levels instead of perpetuating their frat boy days well into their thirties; do you believe it?
- lostboys67 10y agoOh dear sounds like you have missed some of the subtle clues here. Wasn't taking about your "ethnic" culture. It's the unwritten rules of professional jobs i.e. read a broadsheet and not a tabloid paper - this is what the infamous "The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To Being A Man" is all about. BTW I went to a bog standard comprehensive and did not go to Uni
- typon 10y agoI wish this culture would die. The sooner we realize that most programming is a skills trade and not a profession, the better it will be for the industry.
- lostboys67 10y agoWhat "culture" is this and Why would having our profession degraded and reduced in status help anyone except the employer. Would you suggest a surgeon is just a tradesman after it just cutting meat so its totally like a butcher.
- smoyer 10y agoExcept that the butcher can't put what he's cut back together again.
- lostboys67 10y agoI think you just made my point for me
- typon 10y agoI'm advocating for humility, which should result in a net increase in prestige for programming, not the other way around.
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- busterarm 10y agoSlight disagreement here. Former bank employee. Banks hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowflakes. In fact, they hire the absolute best-credentialed and most-experienced in the market. Our receptionists, mail and facilities staff at minimum had a Masters degree, went to a Tier 1 school and did something very interesting/exceptional with their off-time. They just try to turn them into drones via compensation schemes and internal politics.
- chrisbennet 10y agoThat is so sad. What a waste of human potential.
- Sunset 10y agoPitty
- michaelt 10y agoOur receptionists, mail and facilities staff at minimum had a Masters degree, went to a Tier 1 school I'm curious as to how you convinced such people to take such jobs? I would have thought it would be difficult to convince a graduate from an Ivy League university or similar to take a janitorial job?
- lostboys67 10y agoWould not Janitors be outsourced
- MusaTheRedGuard 10y agoThey pay them. A lot. Plus exit ops
- Humdeee 10y agoGirlfriend has climbed the ranks in a bank over the years to a pretty decent pay right now. The tellers you talk to when you walk in generally have a degree to a masters level education, and make about 28k to 35k CAD. Outside of tech and a select few other industries, jobs like this are pretty competitive with limited payoff. That 60k entry job (here at least) that is the norm for CS and other eng disciplines is a pipe dream for many with more general degrees. It's a situation a lot of us here forget or don't even know exists.