Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements

Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by javajosh on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:11AM (#27688751)

I would interpret that as a face-saving way for the HR person to say: you're too good to work here, and will feel alienated and alone surrounded by comparative mediocrity and incompetence. Then, as a cherry on top, they demonstrated the truth of the implicit assertion.

In the end, I'd say that HR person did your brother a solid.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by yellowstuff on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:20AM (#27688867)

Based on the story it's also entirely possible that the HR person just disliked the guy for some unrelated reason, or had someone else in mind for the role, and came up a plausible excuse for the rejection.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by michaelbuckbee on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:18AM (#27688847)

I'd interpret it differently as well - that the HR person realized that the compensation they could pay would not match what was required and they didn't want to deal with woo'ing the candidate only to offer a lowball offer they would refuse.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by geoduck14 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:06AM (#27689448)

I've interviewed people before and thought "I'm going to reject you, and you should thank me".

To be clear, not all of the jobs I've hired for sucked. But there was one project that was designed to chew up your soul (mine included), and we had very specific requirements- and people that had "extra" skills weren't qualified. I learned A LOT from that project.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by throwaway_egbs on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:05PM (#27691677)

Really wish you'd been on my last hiring panel. (Quit after six months.)

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by DelightOne on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:17AM (#27689586)

What design can chew up your soul? Never heard that before.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by geoduck14 on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:12PM (#27716287)

I was working for a small department inside of a large company. The large company was migrating databases (it was a 2 year journey), our department was TRYING to get sold.

In our area, we had 2 teams racing VERY FAST to 2 different objectives:

1) migrate ALL code and data to the new system (because it needs to be available on the new system) AND

2) archive everything (because we might sell all of our stuff and be unemployeed)

It was gut wrenching to look at code that I put my heart and soul into and know it would never run again. Or to look at code with comments like "I just threw this garbage together - it needs to be fixed, circa 5 years ago" and know it would never be fixed.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by pope_meat on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:54AM (#27690043)

I imagine writing software that IDs people so a drone can drop a bomb on their head would make one feel terrible.

Or those automated gun turrets?

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by walshemj on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:39PM (#27691351)

Working for doorstep lending or payday loan companies that prey on poor people.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by watwut on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:02AM (#27689388)

I would interpret it as HR excluding him due to something else, possibly for random reason and then making rationalization/excuse.

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Re:Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements by rvba on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:28AM (#27689718)

Probably thr HR representative wanted to hire their friend or family. Lots of companies dont screen for hiring family members that and dont have any policy against it.

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