[SATLUG] [Fwd: Hello From Google]

[R. Tyler Ballance]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 11:42 PM -0600 1/21/07, tom weeks wrote:
>
>>  They get 3,000 resumes a day.  Spending all the time weeding out  
>> the weenies
>>  is expensive.  It's faster (and cheaper) to go to the geeks who  
>> do it for
>>  fun.  They're the ones who will really excel at a geek type job,  
>> opposed to
>>  the guys coming to you in a suit with an MCSE/Linux+ in their  
>> hand.. ;)
>
> So, it's cheaper and easier for them to spam thousands of computer  
> geeks to get them to submit resumes, than it is for them to  
> actually read the resumes that they get.  Did I get that?
>
> Am I missing something here?

You're trying to draw some correlation between human resources, and  
the actual engineering folks.

Regardless of the corporation, human resources is usually quite  
Dogbert :)


Cheers
R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
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