> 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

> 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.