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0 pointsreadams4y ago0 comments

It's just because the interviewing tool you have to put your notes into at Google takes text and not pictures :-). The hiring committee will actually look at this, and this is a different person from the interviewer.

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cperciva4y ago· 3 in thread

Ok, but they were transcribing from the whiteboard onto paper. So everything I wrote must have been transcribed twice before it reached the hiring committee.

teirce4y ago

Isn't this a bit of revisionist thinking? I don't know that cameras of that quality were commonplace in 2006. It's not like you could just pull out your iPhone. And most digital cameras weren't much better (i.e. I wouldn't trust being able to read handwriting from their pictures). So then what, you supply each interviewer with a roll of film and a company darkroom?

It's also easier to write your own notes down this way too.

joatmon-snoo4y ago

2006 was... early. I don't remember when HCs were formed, but there's no way the internal ATS had any level of sophistication, if it even existed then.

(Admittedly this is all years before my time.)

cperciva4y ago

From what the recruiter told me, there was a hiring committee but their recommendations had to be approved by the founders before an offer could go out.

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