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Some of us like our jobs too much to risk leaking these things from resourceful companies that can ruin away our lives in an instant. Might be going too far to

Some of us like our jobs too much to risk leaking these things from resourceful companies that can ruin away our lives in an instant. Might be going too far to say “unqualified”, but I have already seen “less qualified” changed to “meets the minimum requirements” specifically changed to push through some hires. I am not taking a stance, the hired still worked great, but decisions were made, calls were exchanged, interview notes were modified, and I don't think you can defend this position honestly as of ~2020 Spring. There was a good 3 years where it was not about getting “the best”, but specifically for asking us to lower out bars to “get enough”, and letting HR take it from there.

pavlov 2y ago
Was your previous hiring process actually getting you “the best”? In that case you’re much better at hiring than any corporation I’ve ever seen. I was at Facebook for several years, and the hiring process was 90% noise where everyone pretended very hard that it’s signal.
- frowaway4anoday 2y ago
  Definitely not! They let me in, after all, and I know where I’d fit in. Churn used to be high enough I believe they would expect to grind you out if you couldn’t do the work. It was very cruel. I’d say the SNR was higher than -19dB, though (assuming we are using Volts on this shocking topic). You can’t target the best if you are not open to looking for them but instead start looking for people to make them your best. I think that this fit the overall company strategy pivot from one that encouraged “personal excellence by dealing with excellent people”, to one that pushed “managerial precision through finding acceptable cogs”. Im paraphrasing the exact phrase, but I think thats a fair interpretation. These are not bad things, they are just the winds of change based on the lungs of whoever is in charge to think whats best for the company. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it blows, sometimes it goes nowhere. The new approached allowed for different people to get lucky, different people to get ahead, and different people to start filling the hallways. Thats gotta be worth something, somewhere. People willing to try at this level deserve a chance, and it’s not my money, so why not. What changed for me was that previously they could make a claim and cloak the results in facts (maybe because I believed it), but now they were looking to that tweak the claim so that it could be one where you could cloak the facts with results (and were asking me to do my part). Part of this shift was warranted, part of it was appeasement, all if it felt like you’d just been served a bundled cable TV plan.

pavlov 2y ago

Was your previous hiring process actually getting you “the best”? In that case you’re much better at hiring than any corporation I’ve ever seen. I was at Facebook for several years, and the hiring process was 90% noise where everyone pretended very hard that it’s signal.

frowaway4anoday 2y ago
Definitely not! They let me in, after all, and I know where I’d fit in. Churn used to be high enough I believe they would expect to grind you out if you couldn’t do the work. It was very cruel. I’d say the SNR was higher than -19dB, though (assuming we are using Volts on this shocking topic). You can’t target the best if you are not open to looking for them but instead start looking for people to make them your best. I think that this fit the overall company strategy pivot from one that encouraged “personal excellence by dealing with excellent people”, to one that pushed “managerial precision through finding acceptable cogs”. Im paraphrasing the exact phrase, but I think thats a fair interpretation. These are not bad things, they are just the winds of change based on the lungs of whoever is in charge to think whats best for the company. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it blows, sometimes it goes nowhere. The new approached allowed for different people to get lucky, different people to get ahead, and different people to start filling the hallways. Thats gotta be worth something, somewhere. People willing to try at this level deserve a chance, and it’s not my money, so why not. What changed for me was that previously they could make a claim and cloak the results in facts (maybe because I believed it), but now they were looking to that tweak the claim so that it could be one where you could cloak the facts with results (and were asking me to do my part). Part of this shift was warranted, part of it was appeasement, all if it felt like you’d just been served a bundled cable TV plan.