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Re:Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case by quanticle on Saturday April 14, 2018 @12:53AM (#16835944)
>The cost of doing interviews to screen candidates is much lower than background checks.

I highly doubt that. An engineer-hour costs roughly $100. A background check probably costs roughly as much as a phone screen, and an order of a magnitude less than an on-site. It'd be pretty easy to do the background check step in between the phone screen and the on-site, and it wouldn't appreciably raise costs to the company.

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Re:Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case by walshemj on Saturday April 14, 2018 @12:53PM (#16838156)
A low level BG check costs that but that's probably just checking they are on the electoral register an don't have any outstanding judgements against them.

Also spending money externally appears to the company to cost much more than using internal resources

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Re:Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case by lotu on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:02AM (#16836129)
Most interviewers aren’t engineers, in tech sure, but their are lots of other industries
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