Comment by bee_rider
8 days ago
Working in retail is 99% lying that you care about your job, so might as well start it out on the right footing.
8 days ago
Working in retail is 99% lying that you care about your job, so might as well start it out on the right footing.
What about working as a SWE at Google? Apparently they recently implemented a personality test as an initial screener (they call it a Googleyness test).
It doesn’t necessarily need to be beneficial for the company.
Game theoretically there’s an advantage as an employee of a successful company to artificially reduce the number of people who can be employed to raise your own relative value to the company. If Google can only select from left handed employees suddenly they need to pay higher wages and existing employees are facing less competition as new employees are selected from a smaller applicant pool and thus worse.
Probably not the actual answer, but it’s worth considering such indirect motivations.
That's called wrong-think.
If one were to do that, you would be imposing costs to the point where demand drops to 0, and supply in the near term would follow that to 0.
From there you have a short march to economic collapse.
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Google is screening for compliant, fungible engineers. Especially those swayed by the need to be told they’re the best of the best. Tests like that make sense in an ugly sort of way.
Googlers told me that appearing obsessed with climbing the career ladder is an expectation of SWEs, though not a strict requirement. Being a good liar seems like a huge plus.
I had a manager at a part time job at _Blockbuster_ say surprised in review “You make it sound like you are only working here for the money”.
I mean, lol, yes?
My retail managers were mostly pretty chill “this is all bullshit so let’s get through it with minimal hassle” types. The workers were mostly teenagers, and teenagers haven’t learned how to quiet their bullshit detectors yet, so externalizing the bullshit generation seemed to work pretty well.
I can’t really understand the mindset that gets really on-mission for that sort of thing, like somebody has a life goal of selling clothes or renting videos out.
Well if you love clothes or loved movies before the internet was a thing, why not. Of course not at the soulless corporate shitholes we are talking about here. Oh wait, isn't that the exact way of doing business ycombinator is promoting? What are we doing here? Venture capital was the enemy all along.