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Jeff Moden (12/10/2012)
What I'm suggesting is that tests such as MB ... do little in determining if someone will go postal or be an excellent employee.
Again, that's not the point...
December 10, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Jeff Moden (12/10/2012)
The problem is that companies ARE, in fact, using them to discriminate.
And companies discriminate against people who don't know certain programming languages. That's part of doing business: choosing...
December 10, 2012 at 8:02 am
Jeff Moden (12/7/2012)
December 9, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Nadrek (12/5/2012)
December 7, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I once held a job where I was *forbidden* from using my employer's services: a Native-American casino. (They didn't have a problem with me gambling elsewhere.)
October 8, 2012 at 3:01 pm
chrisn-585491 (9/14/2012)
An idea: Apply this on Friday afternoon after lunch, when you're probably not going to accomplish much in-the-box work anyway.
Friday afternoon? That's when project managers that have been sitting...
September 14, 2012 at 9:42 am
I have held four different full-time jobs over the last 8 years. Each job required a different skill set. The result is the precisely this sort of "undesirable" skill set:...
September 13, 2012 at 9:06 am
An idea: Apply this on Friday afternoon after lunch, when you're probably not going to accomplish much in-the-box work anyway.
September 13, 2012 at 7:07 am
Michael Valentine Jones (8/24/2012)
August 25, 2012 at 9:29 am
Fix versus create? In my experience, more like plan, implement infrastructure, create, test, correct, tune. And the sum of the percentages is more than 100%. (At least that's the impression...
August 24, 2012 at 1:05 pm
This is what I wanted to do and was trying to do for a previous employer. But it was completely lost on the decision makers. I was accused of not...
August 9, 2012 at 8:23 am
jmgroft (7/30/2012)
The best we can do is create a system that keeps honest people honest and forces dishonest people to work so hard that it's not worth their while.
It...
July 30, 2012 at 8:20 am
James Stover (7/24/2012)
July 24, 2012 at 9:51 am
I too would like to know the significance of the flagpole and the fish tank. "There are, of course, the classic general danger signs such as a fish-tank in the...
July 23, 2012 at 7:27 am
Russell Lavelle-langham (7/20/2012)
at the risk of starting a whole new thread fork, it's Beer O'Clock here in London, England so I'm off out to play.
That is one definite problem with...
July 20, 2012 at 1:06 pm
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