Re:I don't hire unlucky people
by lawnchair_larry on Thursday April 05, 2012 @05:22PM
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Personally I think those terms indicate feeble attempts at psychological manipulation. I feel like responding to job ads like that would be like admitting you're a gullible fool. They're trying to recruit and stroke egos, not people.
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Re:I don't hire unlucky people
by huhtenberg on Thursday April 05, 2012 @07:06PM
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Or they think of themselves as ninjas, which is too a big red flag.
I dunno. Think about Steve Jobs recruiting for Mac engineers with a pirate flag flying from the building. If 'pirate' then == ninja/rockstar now, you might be missing a great job.
Was that part of Steve's recruiting schtick? IIRC, that was just internal company culture and not something that Apple HR (or Steve if he was interviewing) would have mentioned.
I do believe he used words like "changing the world", etc. These are more about results than ego. Huge difference.
You are on to something here.
If people want o make it a hipster contest don't use the recruiting op and waste it. It simply does not add up unless you are stuck in a mindset that is not conductive to anything productive. Nihilists are us should never be a place one "wants" to work at unless there are no other ops available.