Re:What’s the best feedback you got when you DIDN’T get the ...
by belovedeagle on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:38PM
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> You move your mouse too much
This is the third time in as many days I've read that. Is this becoming the go-to excuse for rejecting applicants? I mean, as with all excuses it has a basis in reality -- I'd be bothered enough by an applicant sitting there futzing around with the mouse to have doubts about their technical competence -- and yet it's completely irrelevant to the actual job of a software engineer, which is to stave off manglement long enough to cobble something together.
This is the third time in as many days I've read that. Is this becoming the go-to excuse for rejecting applicants? I mean, as with all excuses it has a basis in reality -- I'd be bothered enough by an applicant sitting there futzing around with the mouse to have doubts about their technical competence -- and yet it's completely irrelevant to the actual job of a software engineer, which is to stave off manglement long enough to cobble something together.