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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by user5994461 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:21PM (#12701854)
> I wonder what would happen if ordinary people recruited for medical doctor jobs? Would you be comfortable rejecting a guy who'd been in medical school for 10 years based on his not knowing what the "funny bone" is? Wouldn't you tell your boss that you felt a bit out of that league? It's amazing you can get someone to do this without them going red in the face.

The medical recruiter asks to see the diploma. The doctor shows his degree and gets the job.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by lordnacho on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:34PM (#12701979)
"Diploma says DO, not MD. You don't get the job."

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

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by inopinatus on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:25PM (#12703359)
Given that osteopathy is pseudoscientific dogma, that's not an unreasonable outcome.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by alfalfasprout on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:08PM (#12710372)
Eh, that's really oversimplifying it. Yes, DOs are taught some fringe-ish things. But the rest of their education is very comparable to that of an MD. I expect in the long run that many of these quacky aspects of the osteopathy curriculum will quickly vanish.
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