Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by technion on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:44AM (#15977817)

These discussions tend to assume in-house development though.

I've spent far too much time around organisations where "more time with bums on seats" = "direct correlation to billing more", which = "better work" if you ask the right people. That leads to an unfortunately different scenario.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by jcadam on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:18AM (#15978529)

Defense contracting. It's all about billing hours against a contract. As long as I'm doing that, I'm making the company money.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:05PM (#15980569)

And that's how you get code from company A that's performing sanity checks on a parts of a file that are outside the scope of the spec the data in that file is supposed to meet failing content that meets spec but has had all superfluous information discarded by a custom compression algorithm that's designed by company B to improve performance on a network with insane latency.

That was a fun bug to track down.

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