[anonify8]

Fuck so I need to put SQL in my CV? Do I also need to say "can eat with cutlery"? You probably filter out people who explain their impact in the CV rather than keyword soup.

We need something like driving tests for this basic stuff. Do it every 10 yrs. Standard vocational qualifications that all companies accept. Likena forklift.

[halfcat]

> Do I also need to say "can eat with cutlery"?

Only if it’s a core part of the job (it wasn’t in our case, we were fine if the candidate eats with their hands).

You're right, we will absolutely filter out a lot of good people. We aren’t trying to find the best, and it’s not obvious that if we did read through every application in detail that it would result in a better outcome, because it would take significantly longer and good applicants will have had other offers by then.

[anonify8]

Thanks. There has to be a better way. At risk of sounding cliche an LLM could probably do a better job. If yiu ask if the person probably knows SQL and they talk about setting up a postgres cluster... a natutal language model might score them as very likely and you keep em in. Maybe that wasnt available at the time.

Otherwise screen with a 5 to 10 minute quiz. Which also would probably encur the wrath of a HN snark from someone else but I accept these sorts of thing as a necessary evil and fair modulo creating more work for busy people.

[brudgers]

Selecting for people who try to make other people’s lives easier is a feature not a bug.

[anonify8]

It is a game where I need to psychicly guess what keywords to put in.

Hopefully it is the ones on the job ad.

I am not suggesting lying.... this is about 100-1000 technologies buzzword lists based on wide experience.

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