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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by DrJaws on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:47PM (#13682615)
Saying that they "poached" engineers make it look like they are property of a company and can't move looking for better opportunities.
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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by mnx on Sunday February 19, 2017 @06:12PM (#13682761)
I don't like that word either, but it seems to be the standard term.
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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by mikeash on Sunday February 19, 2017 @06:37PM (#13682902)
"Hired" would work just as well here.
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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by bpicolo on Sunday February 19, 2017 @09:20PM (#13683745)
Uber recruiters once emails about 100 engineers in my company the same email...except they managed to swap around the first/last names on all of them.
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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by rspeer on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:18AM (#13685429)
Most recruiters are comically bad at targeting -- apparently there isn't enough downside to just carpet-bombing as many e-mail addresses as they can find -- but this does not mean that recruiting is inherently wrong.
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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by bpicolo on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:58AM (#13687214)
The funny bit was the swapped names, it's like they had a spreadsheet but shifted a column down. Didn't double check the names against emails so I assume it was automated.
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