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heartofadog
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heartofadog
5y ago
I don't see much of any "reason" behind what this invading army has been doing for the past 3.5 weeks, actually. Or if it's even right to call them an army. Anyway I don't think the concern is that they would targ
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heartofadog
5y ago
Or too many folks still hung up about how they ranked and what they were able to "accomplish" in those years. A competent HR department exists, in fact, precisely for the purpose of preventing the adoption of inane practices like
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heartofadog
5y ago
Only problem is - the Amazon process doesn't filter for your belief in, or ability to, you know, actually abide by those principles. But simply your willingness to memorize and recite them.
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heartofadog
5y ago
And exclusive of people who dropped out of (or barely made it through) high school -- which as a category includes some of the most responsible and accomplished people I know.
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heartofadog
5y ago
"signed off on that post" - sorry.
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heartofadog
5y ago
Which makes them basically meaningless as questions.
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heartofadog
5y ago
It isn't of course. It's patently illegal. As well as just plain slimy and awful. Which is what makes this episode so juicy. First the language was not in the least ambiguous -- the post means exactly what it says. And from th
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heartofadog
5y ago
Posting seems to have been removed. Fortunately, however: https://web.archive.org/web/20220318235002/https://recruit.a... And yes, it literally says: The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCL
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heartofadog
5y ago
It's possible to have both a talent shortage and a woefully irrational and dysfunctional hiring culture. As this industry seems to have.
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heartofadog
5y ago
Agreed. The disparity between EQ and IQ reflected in that questionnaire is truly breathtaking.
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heartofadog
5y ago
War is, by definition, a "massive violation of due process". I get your point (that ethics and law matter -- including basic principles of law where international law is not codified), and on a certain level this is valid. But his
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5y ago
Overall it should be entirely doable to complete this in 30 to 60 minutes, This is ludicrous of course. There no way you can sanely expect someone to answer 37 open-ended / largely interpretive questions of this sort in 30 minutes.