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[Darvi]

If both stacks were to the left, how'd the employees know which ones to dump?

[kaijyuu]

If both stacks were to the left, how'd the employees know which ones to dump?

Obvious typo, Darvi


And yeah, with places with extreme competition like that, employers sweep through the applications for the most trivial things. That happens in the USA too (though they generally sort first by experience, not which college you graduated from. That's next).

[Darvi]

If both stacks were to the left, how'd the employees know which ones to dump?

Obvious typo, Darvi

Didn't notice that؟

[Cthulhu]

A guy asked me why a conversation between three people wasn't called a trialogue.  I pointed out that the prefix Dia- does not mean "two."  After he continues on that line of thought and I point out again that the prefix here is Dia- and not Di-, he says:

I'm referring to the Di, not the Dia. Carbon Dioxide does not mean Carbon through Oxygen.

what

[The Darkling Wolf]

Yeah.

What?

[penguinofhonor]

I'm not sure whether he thought it was spelled "carbon diaxide" or "diologue".

[RedKing]

I'm more wondering where the "through" came in.

A person telling an anecdote about his time at a big Korean online game company. It was job application time, and he went a big room and helped everyone spread out all the applications. There were 20,000 applications for 200 jobs. The team leader looked at the first page of each app and kicked one the the left, where employees collected them and threw them away, or the right, where they were stacked up for secondary evaluation and interviews. Shocked, he asked how he could make such a split second decision. The team leader replied that everyone not graduated from Seoul, Koryu, or Yonseo University went into the trash bin. That's like rejecting every job app where the job finder wasn't out of an Ivy League school. He considered nothing else, not even the major (for a programming job!). Gave not a damn for other things like experience, depth of study (master's? Bachelor's?), or willingness.

I wasn't sure if that should have been a rage, sad, or wtf. It's a stupid thing for companies to do, though, so...

I've heard that that's a major problem in South Korea (and one of the reasons for the insane level of competitiveness to get into those schools). The US has its own WTF regarding resume screenings. Often, they use computers and just scan for certain keywords. If you don't have them, PFFT...trash pile.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, when you consider the huge volume of Resumes. I mean, 20,000 to go through for only 200 jobs? It's natural that companies would find ways to automatically winnow through them so that the people only have to pay attention to a manageable subset.

Of course, how they do that is often questionable.

At least the Key Word searches will usually grab people with the right background. It might omit a few, but if you're looking for people who can do C++ you expect the majority of them to list that on their resume.

Seems better to me than taking people without a programming background over people with one just because of the college they graduated from.

[misko27]

A guy asked me why a conversation between three people wasn't called a trialogue.  I pointed out that the prefix Dia- does not mean "two."  After he continues on that line of thought and I point out again that the prefix here is Dia- and not Di-, he says:

I'm referring to the Di, not the Dia. Carbon Dioxide does not mean Carbon through Oxygen.

what

What.

[Cthulhu]

I'm more wondering where the "through" came in.

A person telling an anecdote about his time at a big Korean online game company. It was job application time, and he went a big room and helped everyone spread out all the applications. There were 20,000 applications for 200 jobs. The team leader looked at the first page of each app and kicked one the the left, where employees collected them and threw them away, or the right, where they were stacked up for secondary evaluation and interviews. Shocked, he asked how he could make such a split second decision. The team leader replied that everyone not graduated from Seoul, Koryu, or Yonseo University went into the trash bin. That's like rejecting every job app where the job finder wasn't out of an Ivy League school. He considered nothing else, not even the major (for a programming job!). Gave not a damn for other things like experience, depth of study (master's? Bachelor's?), or willingness.

I wasn't sure if that should have been a rage, sad, or wtf. It's a stupid thing for companies to do, though, so...

I've heard that that's a major problem in South Korea (and one of the reasons for the insane level of competitiveness to get into those schools). The US has its own WTF regarding resume screenings. Often, they use computers and just scan for certain keywords. If you don't have them, PFFT...trash pile.

I'm on my phone so I can't delete the extra, sorry.  The Dia prefix means "through," andthats what dialogue uses.

[RedKing]

I'd post my "The More You Know" afterschool-special logo gif, but img.ie. 

[Vorthon]

...I read 'leader thingymabob' as 'leather thingymabob'...

...I have issues, don't I?

[Mr Space Cat]

...I read 'leader thingymabob' as 'leather thingymabob'...

...I have issues, don't I?

At least it wasn't "leather thingymathong." You're still slightly sane, then.

[Flying Dice]

Breaking news: Chris Hansen is a leather thong.

[Euld]

Speaking of leather thongs.  Don't worry, it's safe for work.

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