Ah, the joys of job interviews where you get a free psych eval instead of, you know, an actual job! 🙄 Because what better way to gauge "cultural fit" than by playing therapist with your potential employees? 🛋️ Someone call Freud, we've got a new patient! 🤦‍♂️
https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had #jobinterviewfail #culturalfit #psychologyeval #workplacehumor #hiringpractices #HackerNews #ngated
The worst job interview I ever had

Or how not to do a culture fit interview

🎉 Congratulations, you managed to shrink a bloated whale of a Docker image into a dolphin-sized miracle. 🚀 But let's be real, if your "production" image was a 1.2GB monstrosity to begin with, maybe the real optimization needed is in your hiring practices. 🤔💼
https://the-practical-developer.online/posts/docker-image-from-1gb-to-80mb/ #DockerOptimization #ImageSize #HiringPractices #TechHumor #SoftwareEngineering #HackerNews #ngated
Your Docker Image Is 1.2GB. Here Is How To Get It Under 80MB.

A step-by-step optimization of a real Node.js Docker image — from a 1.2GB monster to a 78MB production container. Each technique is benchmarked, copy-paste ready, and explained with the trade-offs.

A Ninth Circuit ruling on faith-based hiring clarifies how the First Amendment’s church autonomy doctrine limits state interference, with implications extending beyond Christianity to Pagan and other minority religious organizations.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/01/ninth-circuit-opinion-faith-based-hiring-conditionally-ok-beyond-clergy.html

#pagan #witchcraft #churchandstate #firstamendment #hiringpractices #appealscourt #churchautonomydoctrine #EmploymentDiscrimination

Ninth Circuit Opinion: Faith-Based Hiring Conditionally OK Beyond Clergy

A Ninth Circuit ruling on faith-based hiring clarifies how the First Amendment’s church autonomy doctrine limits state interference, with implications extending beyond Christianity to Pagan and other minority religious organizations.

The Wild Hunt

I was wondering how the training for new hires went
#trumpregime #hiringpractices
#whoseyourdaddy

#NSFW

In the final instalment of this edition of the Talent Aperture Series, I continue the case that hiring isn't procurement—it's stewardship—and explore:

🧠 How we reclaim human judgement in hiring
📈 Why blind recruitment and contextual interviews are gaining ground
💎 What good decision-making really demands in a world drunk on metrics.

https://robert.winter.ink/the-talent-aperture-reopened/

#Discernment #EthicalHiring #AlgorithmicBias #HumanJudgement #ResponsibleAI #TalentEthics #StrategicRecruitment #HiringPractices

The Talent Aperture, Reopened

In a world of automated hiring, human discernment is vanishing. Part III of the Talent Aperture Series explores how over-reliance on algorithms compromises diversity, adaptability, and ethics. Yet through a three step process we can restore judgement as a core capability in hiring—and outlines how organisations can do so. Once upon a restructuring, someone in […]

Dr Robert N. Winter
Companies Are Outsourcing Job Interviews to AI. What Could Go Wrong? | The Walrus

Human resources is getting much less human

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