News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply based on bad writing?.

Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by sucuri2 on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:20AM (#2245461)
One word for you: foreigners (or people that English is not their main language).

Very capable, very smart and awesome to work with (most of the time), but can make some silly mistakes when writting in english... Specially on things that a spell checker wouldn't catch.

Not unfair, but you could miss a lot of good people by doing that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by petervandijck on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:39AM (#2245535)
Missing good people isn't the issue when hiring, hiring bad people is.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by sucuri2 on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:59AM (#2245593)
Not when it is so hard to find qualified people...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by petervandijck on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @07:10AM (#2249627)
No, even then.
[ Parent | on HN ]