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Re:Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation by zyxley on Friday October 16, 2015 @12:48PM (#10400517)
> she believed I'd been subjected to ageism

I would suspect more "we don't want to hire someone who thinks it's appropriate to show up in a literal school uniform to a professional interview" more than ageism, per se.

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Re:Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation by capisce on Friday October 16, 2015 @01:15PM (#10400691)
If his skills were that good they should be able to afford to sponsor him with a new suit.
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Re:Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation by zyxley on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:30PM (#10401506)
It's easier to train a professional and prepared candidate in some fraction of job skills than is it to train a very skilled candidate in business proprieties, especially for an interview that starts with a multiple-choice test.
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