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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 35 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Interviewing is (ideally) quite a structured type of conversation, when is a job interview. A lot of people have to lock in pretty hard to deal with how unnatural it is, and they might not have the spare bandwidth to catch a joke.

Especially not someone from HR, they're fucking troglodytes.

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I completely agree with your first paragraph.
But TheFogan was probably not explaining UDP to an HR person in this scenario.

[–] MSBBritain@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh I've seen some pretty bad interviewing, where HR is sent in with a question sheet and a box to tick for which key words the interviewee mentioned per question.

Obviously a red flag and useless method of interviewing, but it does happen frighteningly often. Especially where the IT team is so understaffed, they can't spare the time to do interviews.

[–] captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oomph, ~~buzzword~~ keyword guessing sounds like great interview indeed

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