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About two years ago I was fast-tracked to interviews at Apple via recommendation. About 9 interviews later over 4 spread-out days, I was told I had done quite
by Miserlou57 12y ago
About two years ago I was fast-tracked to interviews at Apple via recommendation.
About 9 interviews later over 4 spread-out days, I was told I had done quite well during the interview process.
Eventually I was not given the position because I was holding a beer in my LinkedIn picture.
They ended up paying my current employer (their vendor at the time) astronomical amounts of money to do the very same service, done by me, on-site.
Go figure.
- geetee 12y agoI believe you, but they actually admitted that was the reason?
- Miserlou57 12y agonot really. I had a close contact part of the process who revealed this to me.
- ugh123 12y agoProbably couldn't have hurt to reach out to the recruiter and/or hiring manager and make a personal case for yourself.
- hueving 12y agoWhy would you lower yourself to the level of having to justify drinking beer to get a job?
- libria 12y agoThis is rationalizing. Just because some stuffy suit caught a glance at his profile and nixed him doesn't mean the team he would work with has any issue with it. As with all interviews, you gotta do a little dance to get in, but they're not reflective of daily experience.
- adamnemecek 12y ago"Think different. But not too different."
- swang 12y agoI'm not sure if your parent was referring to interviewing at Apple.
- Miserlou57 12y agoIt was. Now edited
- Double_Cast 12y ago"Drink different. Beer is too mainstream."
- mhurron 12y agoI drink beer I've made, you've probably never heard of it.
- jeffbush 12y agoWouldn't they have seen that before they brought you on-site? Isn't that how they found you? I'm a little surprised this was the reason; we had beer bashes all the time at Apple.
- Miserlou57 12y agoYou'd think so. I think it just didn't pass a final filter.
- jeffbush 12y agoIt would probably be worth a point or two for me, fwiw :) This can be a stressful business, it's important not to take things too seriously.
- grecy 12y agoWhile I would love to work at Apple, I honestly don't think I want to work somewhere that isn't happy to see a picture of me holding a beer. If they don't want my whole personality, they can't have my intelligence. I refuse to turn myself into a "corporate robot" for the sake of a paycheck.
- Miserlou57 12y agoThat was my thought.
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- Gustomaximus 12y agoTo play devils advocate, Linkedin is professional profile site. Personally I would not put a photo of myself holding a drink for this reason and agree or not, its reasonable to expect people wont like this. If someone said the same cause they saw a Facebook picture of you holding a beer then I would be in absolute agreement.
- oalders 12y agoOn a whim, I recently updated my LinkedIn picture to a photo of myself in a multi-coloured clown wig. This put an immediate end to all messages from recruiters.
- adamnemecek 12y agojust wait until the circus recruiters get a whiff of your profile
- raverbashing 12y agoDon't worry, they will come back They only grep the CVs for words, if you put you're a lion tamer, archeologist, but has the word PHP in your CV (or something similar) you'll get a flood of IT jobs
- misiti3780 12y agohow did you find out you were not given the job because of a beer in your Linkedin picture? - I never wanted to work for apple, but if this story is true it's very sad
- mikesickler 12y agoWas it like a Miller Lite or some other macro beer? If so then I can totally understand their rationale.
- Miserlou57 12y agoPacifico. On a sailboat.
- swatow 12y agoPoe's law in effect here.
- shurane 12y agoIs there more legitimacy/recourse to pay another company for services than to hire an employee (with the skill to back it up) to do the same work in-house? That level of indirection sounds inefficient...
- rwallace 12y agoSometimes there is, yes. If you pay another company for services, it's strictly business. Hire an employee, and all sorts of primate emotions, politics, laws and so forth come into the picture. Sometimes that can more than outweigh the cost of the extra level of indirection. On the bright side, this is one of the things that stops the entire economy being swallowed up by a handful of megacorporations.