Re: *** Software Architect & Lead Openings @ Hyderabad

On 29 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.embedded, in article
<f3h4t2276l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Actually, fully three quarters of our hires come from internal
| referrals. The employee providing the referral gets a finders
| fee when the candidate finishes the probation period, and gets frowny
| points if the candidate bombs. We think we get better quality that way.

You probably do. That is a good way to find good people.

Carrying it further, another source is student intern programs. We have
agreements with local colleges and junior/community colleges to provide
student intern (work experience) positions. At each facility, there is
one person designated to handle the administrative details (verifying
attendance, handling the paperwork), and each department has a
designated supervisor/trainer. This gets us warm bodies at a low
expense, with a commitment of a quarter or semester. If we like what
we see, they get invited back for a second (occasionally third) stint.
The good ones get hired on. This isn't a slave labor program (much as
we joke that it is), as the students are given real world situations.
Both of the 2nd time interns in my department have 'sudo' capabilities
of real trust.

| I seem to recall that ms word had the option to print to a fax
| connection, though I haven't used word in 15 years.

Ooh. I used once Word 4 years ago. But I didn't look at what it could
print to.

If I recall correctly, this was a windoze printer setup function, rather
than specific to the application. In the application, you could then
select which printer you wanted, and one of them could be a fax connection.

We just get the original resume in the original format, unmodified.
We've gotten ASCII text, PDF, and Word (that OOo could handle). No PS,
yet.

Again, HR and legal want to avoid any hint of bias, and it was decided
that cutting/pasting a copy such that "all" identifying points were
not visible was the way to go. I think we ran into a buzz-saw with the
California Labor Relations Board or something, and corporate overreacted
as occasionally happens. I know this is the procedure throughout the US
and Canada, and is probably true in European facilities as well. I don't
know about facilities elsewhere.

Old guy
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