Re:Update on Hiring Plans
by AlbertCory on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:50PM
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> Jacob Applebaum is giving back rubs to Demore under a bridge somewhere
It's Damore. And he's working, as far as I know.
As for "bad reputations": at Google, and I assume at most modern companies, if an applicant came in who worked somewhere you worked at the same time, you got an automated email asking you to rate that person. I don't think I'd even call that a "backchannel."
How much influence did that have? Don't know.
I always knew when the bonuses had gone out at Oracle, because I'd get a flood of reference questions for people trying to leave Oracle.
It's Damore. And he's working, as far as I know.
As for "bad reputations": at Google, and I assume at most modern companies, if an applicant came in who worked somewhere you worked at the same time, you got an automated email asking you to rate that person. I don't think I'd even call that a "backchannel."
How much influence did that have? Don't know.
I always knew when the bonuses had gone out at Oracle, because I'd get a flood of reference questions for people trying to leave Oracle.