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Comment Re:This is dumb (Score 1) 192

"during time of war" is more broad than you would imagine. While the wikipedia article specifies the timeframe for the Gulf War I period of eligibility through 1995, I remember a brand new butterbar coming into our unit around the end of 1992, and we all made fun of him because he only had the "I made it through Basic!" medal.

Comment Re:How to interpret the statistics (Score 1) 435

I'm not sure why you would pick CS graduates as opposed to applicants for positions. Any large company is going to have sales, marketing, administration staff, etc. so picking one specific category, even if it would be the largest, will not give you remotely accurate results. It also implies a CS degree is a pre-requisite for a job at a company, instead of for specific jobs. For example, you're going to have a lot of support staff (server, network, desktop teams, helpdesk, etc.) who would have no requirement for and a low likelihood of having a CS degree. Companies, even tech companies, are not so easily reduced to simple statistics that are meaningful.

Comment Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? (Score 1) 435

Why do you figure HR is prejudiced against women or ethnicity? Wouldn't it be the other way around? That'd look better being all diverse and stuff, right? Maybe they really are presenting you all the people that responded.

I find a lot of people on Slashdot seem to hate HR, but don't have any idea what they really do or why. Lots of standard kneejerk reactions. That said, it doesn't mean that processes in general may not be broken and that incompetent people don't exist everywhere up and down the chain. I find both conditions to get generally true.

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