4 ms·
I think he threw this background check thing out there as a red herring. You're telling me that a standard background check for a candidate succeeded for Google
by TideAd 5y ago
I think he threw this background check thing out there as a red herring. You're telling me that a standard background check for a candidate succeeded for Google and two other big tech companies but not Stripe?
No, what probably happened is that the job opening was for a particular team, but the team got re-orged and some exec took the headcount away from them.
- vanusa 5y agoAgreed, that is by far the most likely explanation. What's interesting about his attempted "save" is that (aside from being pure speculation) it just comes off so... snide. Basically what he's saying is: "Yeah, we kind of cut corners with those people, but you know what? They forced our hand - first by having lukewarm references, and second, for being so damned emotionally fragile and oversensitive to the implicit criticism of having this hard truth delivered to them."