PaulRobinson

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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
Yes, I meant it in a flippant and off-the-cuff manner. I have no interest in a person's religion. In fact if anything, I find religious diversity in the workplace a bonus. I've worked with Catholics, Protestants, Pagans, Muslims, Jews, Sata
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
You aren't going to fix that problem by hiding their real names, because the moment they turn up for interview the bigoted response is still going to be there. So let's have some transparency, and deal with the actual root cause of the prob
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
You're talking shit. As another poster has pointed out, you will refuse to let me deny what I actually meant, because you will insist I had no reason to obfuscate unless my intention was perverse and bigoted, but I needed to disguise the fa
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
Most developers can't write a CV for shit. Part of the problem is that because they know recruiters are so heavily involved in the process, they cram it with technology acronyms that they barely touched once, just to get through the filters
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
I don't want to do blind evaluations. If I'm about to give somebody £50k a year and spend 40-60 hours a week basically living and working with them, putting my job on the line on the promise they can deliver, I don't want to be blind. I wan
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
Great, so I'd love to see your HN profile, your github profile, etc. I don't want to see stuff for the sake of being nosey. I want to understand you better, and to have a better place to start the interview other than "how was your journey
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
OP here. I've done the LinkedIn and Facebook approach, and it works, but I don't do it algorithmically. I send them personal emails. "I see you've been working a lot recently with JRuby, that's kinda interesting to me. Want to schedule a ch
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
I feel your pain, which is why I wanted to address it to some extent, and why I wrote that post. I hope that thread dies, and the discussion moves here. Can you not see however, that the recruiters are all over the list, hitting reply-all,
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
Hello, I'm Paul the author of the original piece. Pleased to meet you. Thanks for taking a few hundred words I wrote over a lunch break and extracting from them a warped inference that I must be a racist, misogynistic bigot. I actually have
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by PaulRobinson 14y ago
I'm the original poster. I don't want to cyberstalk anybody. I want to see what projects they're interested in, what technologies they're loving, what they're hating. My twitter feed has large amounts of swearing at Jenkins. Says a lot abou