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The Recruiter Honeypot (2012) (ewherry.com)
7 points by buro9 on Dec 27, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



From a recent hiring session, we decided to forgo the outside recruiters and simply post to Stack Exchange's job site, along with Node's and a couple others... though the number of resumes we saw was a bit smaller (about a dozen over a week), the hit:miss ratio was much better in terms of those who could pass a fizz-buzz challenge (figuratively).

A few years ago, I sat in phone screen rotation at a very major company for technical screening... I was constantly amazed how many people will put "expert" next to a technology they barely knew. It's rough being on either side of the table, no matter where you are.




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