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Am I the only one who is kinda bugged that everyone is getting hung up on the "37signals vs. 37 Signals" debate, both in HN's comments, and SvN's comments? Loo
by mosburger 18y ago
Am I the only one who is kinda bugged that everyone is getting hung up on the "37signals vs. 37 Signals" debate, both in HN's comments, and SvN's comments?
Look - that wasn't the point of the article! IMHO, the point of the article was to do some research, try your best, and not come across as shoddy. As a former hiring manager, I can attest to the sometimes shocking lack of attention to detail people have when applying for a job. You are sometimes competing against literally hundreds of other applicants, and people reviewing the resumes don't have a lot to go on. Just make sure you try your hardest and do your best if you want to be considered for the position.
And I didn't come away with the feeling that 37s would exclude someone ONLY BECAUSE they put a space between 37 and signals. But they do count it as a negative mark when reviewing a pile of 80 applications.
If there are 10 interview slots, and you and one other applicant have identical resumes and are competing for that 10th slot, and it's down to you and that other applicant, the spelling of the company name just might matter.
Of course, everyone here is an entrepreneur and not really applying to corporate jobs anyway, right? ;)
- dreish 18y agoThis seems to be about the only reasonable comment on this page, and yet the ones that are getting upvoted are the ones that are making excuses for mediocrity and criticizing 37signals for using attention to detail as a hiring criterion. (I can't upvote yours -- I lost my vote months ago when I downvoted all 20 or 30 copies of a multiply-posted comment, which the system interpreted as karma-bombing.) I hadn't believed news.yc was really headed downhill until I saw the comments here. If "details don't matter" is really the winning view, lolcats and "we'll do it live" post chains are probably not too far behind. (Edit: I just noticed the reason the parent comment is being ignored is more than likely just a timing issue.)