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A review site (for Americans, think of the consumer rating service Angie's List) for potential employees to find out how crazy a company's hiring department is. The website would allow interviewees to review the hiring process and note things like:
[ ] Had to wait two hours past appointment time
to be interviewed
[ ] Spent 1 hour in interview, after which was told "job has already be filled, but we will keep your application on file..."
[ ] Interviewer had crazy "cut up the pie" method of screening programmers
Angie's List
http://www.angieslist.com/Angieslist/ Consumer reviews site. [phoenix, Mar 31 2009]
Glassdoor
http://www.glassdoor.com Some of what you're looking for [lepton, Sep 02 2016]
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I'd lend you my exploding resumes but they blew
up a while back. (About the same time I did).
Anyway they would make a great soundtrack for
your website. KABOOM...CRASH...POWWIE. |
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[Ian], Angie's List is a rating website that allows people to tell about their experiences with various service people - plumbers, gardeners, cleaners, electricians, and suchlike. The point is to help other potential customers avoid a bad experience. |
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[+] ... I have a company in mind. "Made me drive two hours for a fifteen-minute interview, do it again for a half-hour interview, and then never called back, even when I called them three times". |
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What's the "cut up the pie" method of screening programmers? |
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//"cut up the pie"// Sequester the candidates in a room with a pie, and issue them a knife each. Sorta like "Hungry Hungry Hippo" but with pie... and knives. |
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Whichever one emerges alive and not knifed in the back
gets the job? |
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Baked some time ago in Japan, for buying a full-sized car. |
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1 Go to the inkan shop, where they will make you an official signature stamp, in kanji, about 50 USD. Maybe it will be ready the day after tomorrow. |
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2 Go to city hall and register your inkan stamp, at least 45 minutes of hanging around. |
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3) Contact your landlord. |
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4) Your landlord contacts the architect who designed the building. |
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5) The architect provides a diagram of the apartment, with your car parking space indicated. Then the architect will use his inkan stamp to show it's for real, and sends it to the landlord. |
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6) The landlord then uses his inkan stamp on the diagram, and hands it to you. |
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7) You take the diagram, and your inkan (just in case) to the Police Station. They will then double-check the diagram and use their official inkan stamp on the diagram. |
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8) You are now free to go buy a car. Obviously you have to take the diagram, and your inkan of course to the car sales place. |
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...I decided it was just easier to walk to work. |
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/ ...I decided it was just easier to walk to work/ |
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Better take the inkan stamp, just in case. |
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This seems ridiculous until I hear my brother talk about how in his city many apartment buildings go up with no parking, because "people will ride bikes". |
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// ...I decided it was just easier to walk to work // |
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We think we see your error. As [MB] is certain to point out, your mistake is to be ordinary, i.e. poor. We assure you that to our certain knowledge, the super-rich are never subject to such trifling bureaucratic inconveniences; partly because they can afford accomodation with lavish parking, partly because their transport is by and large chauffeur-driven, but mostly because they don't go to work, because that's something only poor people do. |
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[8th], you are a scamp and a scurrimonger. I'll have
you know that I walk to work every day. It can take
up to 18 seconds (more, if the weather is against me)
to get from the main house to the laboratory, yet I do
this unaided and entirely of my own volition. |
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Your sedan chairmen are off on holiday again, aren't they ? |
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Tsk tsk, [8th]. You know very well that it's a
palanquin, and that I only use it (a) in the tropics or
(b) if I find myself suddenly taken drunk. |
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//palanquin// Hmm... do you keep a midget in a trunk on the back of the chair ? |
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