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Facebook is doubling down on its mistake after admitting it: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22455076/facebook-misinfo...

That’s surely an exaggeration; _any_ part of the interview offers opportunity to mess up.

A certification exam wouldn’t survive a disparate impact challenge. Google stopped asking for SAT/ACT scores long before universities did. And long before that (according to my father, who actually used them), telegram companies had to stop giving spelling tests to telegraph operator applicants. Add to that difficulties with preventing cheating during a pandemic, and I see no alternative to rolling your own live examination. (Not that I’m defending the often dumb choice of trick tree recursion coding problems; I didn’t learn a lot about a candidate by watching him not get the trick.)

Discussion with Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS, at https://talk.tidbits.com/t/hiding-apple-s-big-sur-upgrade-ba...

Fair enough; perhaps only when I was young and foolish (e.g. MacOS 7.0.1), or the late Senator McCain: https://twitter.com/senjohnmccain/status/344187253955907584

Computer software and hardware used to get monotonically better. Due to a combination of marketing imperatives, lack of respect for customers and testers, and ignorance of tradition, we are losing that; traditional test planning has become deeply unfashionable, and new hardware and software may take features away. Once users liked us and paid us, and we deserved it: Software got better and added features; hardware got faster, thinner, lighter, and better. During the golden age of Silicon Valley, we put a dent in the universe. Now users hate us and we deserve it.

Your LinkedIn profile is public, and your contacts might notice if you padded it conspicuously. Even more important, it’s _one_ thing, whereas a targeted résumé is what the target wants to hear.

When reviewing résumés for a software quality assurance position in a trendy sector, I saw numerous résumés from people with no apparent desire to do software quality assurance, but plenty of desire to move into the trendy sector. One was from a senior manager, who had sometimes supervised departments that included lots of stuff, including QA. His targeted résumé differed from his public profile basically by appending “& QA” in several places. After that, I largely ignored targeted résumés.

LinkedIn has a news feed, and you actually look at it? There’s your problem. I’ve set up an OnMyCommand macro so that when I select some text and right-click, it will search for the selected name:

open "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=__OBJ_...

Apologies to non-Mac users. OnMyCommand is at http://www.abracode.com/free/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html, though for beginners I will immodestly suggest my fork of the ReadMe: https://github.com/abra-code/OMC/pull/9/files