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- Employers increasingly using online "tests" to screen out candidates - 4 Updates
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| "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com>: Oct 08 01:34PM -0700 On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:29:21 PM UTC-4, Robert Hutchings wrote: > they give a test with inaccurate information? Do candidates have any > legal rights in this area? > -> Rob My advice: Do your absolute best, and trust in and rely upon the Lord to guide you through this life. He has those who seek after Him in His hand, and they will be moved wherever He would like them moved. Begin with that foundation (upon Him) and do all you can do, and wait upon Him to move in your life. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin |
| jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net>: Oct 08 10:52PM +0200 Le 08/10/2014 22:34, Rick C. Hodgin a écrit : > upon Him to move in your life. > Best regards, > Rick C. Hodgin Didn't know your lord supports spamming other people with nonsense... |
| Christopher Pisz <nospam@notanaddress.com>: Oct 08 05:17PM -0500 On 10/8/2014 3:29 PM, Robert Hutchings wrote: > they give a test with inaccurate information? Do candidates have any > legal rights in this area? > -> Rob I looked into that once and came up empty. You can't really punish someone for being stupid. I had a few interviews where I knew the askee was incorrect and I proved it, which only made them dislike me more and reject me. I viewed it as a win, because I don't want to work for a supervisor that A) Does not respect and consider my opinion given my experience B) Takes personal offense when proven wrong I really expected bonus points if anything! The person in question made such an issue out of it that I started a little search and made some calls to see what recourse someone had. I came up empty. I assume online tests are no different than in person tests. Someone somewhere in the company decided it was good enough and if they won't accept your pointing out otherwise, what can you do? |
| Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>: Oct 09 11:35AM +1300 Christopher Pisz wrote: > I assume online tests are no different than in person tests. Someone > somewhere in the company decided it was good enough and if they won't > accept your pointing out otherwise, what can you do? Look elsewhere! -- Ian Collins |
| Mark <ma740988@gmail.com>: Oct 08 01:37PM -0700 I have a threshold on the size of the imagery I'm willing to accept. Clearly I could do int const MAX_SIZE ( 0x100000) ; typedef boost::shared_array < char > SHARED_ARRAY; SHARED _ARRAY sequence ; sequence.reset ( new char [ MAX_SIZE ] ); iss.read ( &sequence[0], MAX_SIZE ); But again if the size of the imagery the client sent me is greater (say 1 terabyte) than max_size I'd rather report a meaningful error rather than imposing a hack as shown above and I really don't want to allocate 1 terabyte of storage to determine 'hey size is unsupported'. I want to determine the length/size from istream without having to copy the istream object via rdbuf or read or using the vendor utility. Sounds like the answer is no way around this. True/false? |
| Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>: Oct 08 09:39PM On Wed, 2014-10-08, Mark wrote: > (say 1 terabyte) than max_size I'd rather report a meaningful error > rather than imposing a hack as shown above and I really don't want to > allocate 1 terabyte of storage to determine 'hey size is unsupported'. No, you don't. Well, I'd say "rejecting the message, because it's larger than 2 MB" is a decent error message to hand to a user. (In superficially similar situations it's not. I hate filling in a field in e.g. a web form and being told 'error, max 255 characters', when I don't know if I've entered 340 characters or 257. But that's when I'm likely to hit a very low limit without noticing, and when it's obvious that the system knows exactly how many I entered.) > I want to determine the length/size from istream without having to > copy the istream object via rdbuf or read or using the vendor utility. > Sounds like the answer is no way around this. True/false? True, because like I said a std::istream can and often is infinite. Someone upthread suggested casting to the "real" stream type, but chances are that's not a type you have access to. Or if you do, it doesn't know the size either. Then there's the option to make yourself not care about the size. E.g. a HTTP client can spend a year downloading a terabyte of data at a kilobyte per second, letting the user's patience and disk quota set the limit. Noone else gets hurt much. Not applicable in some other scenarios, though. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . |
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