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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by mquander on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:28PM (#15188260)
I'm sure he could have done a better job communicating to the recruiter. You could tell he was slightly irritated, and maybe somehow he could have figured out a different framing that the recruiter would understand. (But note that at the end, he changed his strategy and said simply that he had experience with Linux and UNIX, and the recruiter still didn't care. It really isn't clear whether there was any approach that would have worked.)

He did like a 75% good job. But the recruiter did a 0% good job. It's not easy to personally take it upon yourself to make every interaction work perfectly when the other party is trying their hardest to make it fail.

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by flukus on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:35PM (#15188283)
> He did like a 75% good job.

I'd say a 75% good job for a fresh grad is a really good score. Explaining technical jargon to the computer illiterate is not really something you can learn at school.

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by nulagrithom on Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:22AM (#15189311)
Not to mention he shouldn't have to in this instance. He's talking to someone who's recruiting for technical positions.

At a big-name company like this, is it really too much to ask that someone understand the basics of the technology and they're recruiting for?

I mean, I explain technical jargon all day long, sure, but I work at a trucking company. Still, my interview process certainly didn't run in to any problem like this, and had it, I can assure you I would've been met with no resistance with the given explanation...

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by cushychicken on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:48PM (#15188349)
>Explaining technical jargon to the computer illiterate is not really something you can learn at school

...but, yet, probably should be.

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by isostatic on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:58AM (#15189653)
> Explaining technical jargon to the computer illiterate is not really something you can learn at school.

How can you not learn that - how else can you talk to IT/Conputer teachers?

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by euyyn on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @10:06PM (#15188644)
> and the recruiter still didn't care

It wasn't not caring; at that point the recruiter didn't believe him about the Unix experience.

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