3 ms·
> Even though I have a Mac, when a prospective job applicant sends a resume in Pages, it’s a disqualifier, because they don’t understand that Windows users can’
by jmull 4y ago
> Even though I have a Mac, when a prospective job applicant sends a resume in Pages, it’s a disqualifier, because they don’t understand that Windows users can’t read that.
Hiring is hard enough. You want to know something you can't possibly know, so you have to use very imperfect, approximate signals. I don't know why you'd want to kneecap yourself on purpose like this. You might as well just roll dice and hire when 7 comes up.
- smoldesu 4y agoHonestly, I kinda get it. I'm tired of people pushing Xcode dotfiles and __MACOSX folders to the main branch. If you're not conscious of the machine you use and the formats you employ, how can you be expected to collaborate effectively?
- kitsunesoba 4y agoI would take that to mean that the person in question doesn't know that .gitignore exists or why it's useful more than anything else.
- adwww 4y agoI'm honestly mortified if I somehow manage to push a .DS_Store to a PR...
- jmull 4y agoI've been doing this for decades and I don't even know what an Xcode dotfile is. Maybe you mean .DS_Store files? That's probably best described as a Finder dotfile... For that, maybe just add the line ".DS_Store" to your .gitignore (or the equivalent for your SCM software)?
- projectazorian 4y ago> Hiring is hard enough. You want to know something you can't possibly know, so you have to use very imperfect, approximate signals. I don't know why you'd want to kneecap yourself on purpose like this. You might as well just roll dice and hire when 7 comes up. In this case the signal is that the candidate would probably be a difficult colleague, since they couldn’t be bothered to spend the extra 30 seconds it takes to export to PDF from Pages. Or they didn’t know how, also a disqualifier.
- Closi 4y ago> Hiring is hard enough. You want to know something you can't possibly know, so you have to use very imperfect, approximate signals. I don't know why you'd want to kneecap yourself on purpose like this. You might as well just roll dice and hire when 7 comes up. You have to use the signals you have. And if the signal someone has sent for certain professional roles is "I don't understand appropriate formats to send documents in" then that is the signal you got. Depends on the job of course.