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by rkuska 2 hours ago
This reminds me of my former CTO. He would take bunch of CVs and randomly throw some of them in a bin. He didn’t want to work with “unlucky” people.
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I thought this was only an old urban legend; some people actually use this technique? Especially in a trade supposed to be led by people trained in sciences?
It's OK! We can disguise it as the Secretary Problem and it'll be fine, we could even write a post on the company blog about it. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

The problem is with this system he only worked with unlucky people.