I wonder what it's like to be on the other side of this. Is the whole tournament thing kind of fun, or demeaning and humiliating? Are seasonal agricultural workers in the UK really mostly Eastern European university students? I wonder how they would transfer to, say, the US. - ⓞnor
I agree with Catmull's disagreement with a studio head's belief that the "central problem was not finding good people—it was finding good ideas". I find I just can't predict how well I'm going to like a movie if all I know is the "high concept". - Howard Trickey
"Mr. Kenk was something of an informal social worker, Mr. Jansen explained, giving work to street people and outpatients from a nearby mental health institution. Of course, the police say some of that work involved stealing bicycles." - Howard Trickey
'Ms. Stoeckle said the underlying message of the research was simple: “If you’re paying for white tuna and you’re eating tilapia, I think you’d want to know that.”' - Howard Trickey
"...the state’s payroll system — which uses a programming throwback known as Cobol, or Common Business-Oriented Language — is so antiquated it would take months to make the changes to workers’ checks" - Howard Trickey
Interviewed (on site last year) at both but received neither. Will likely try Google again in a few years depending on where I'm living (put the good word in for me!) as I think I've learned a lot since then. - Benjamin Golub
via fftogo
You know you have my support, Ben! But I'd tease the heck out of you for the tie, too. (In a friendly way.) - DeWitt Clinton
Hmm... I'm getting a pageload error on that. But I can say this: I interviewed with Google and Microsoft multiple times, and the experiences ranged from truly awful to really awesome. In no particular order: hostile interviewers, wonderfully empathetic and smart recruiters, stunning rudeness, quick reimbursements, incompetent recruiters, etc. - Adam Lasnik
=thatadamguy. not only is it a crapshoot but it's a fairly poor predictor of what life will be like when you actually arrive... - ƃuɐʞ
'The maturing Internet and evolving array of Web 2.0 services has turned our customer base into what many have called a “Google Generation.” We can debate that moniker, but, clearly, no one is calling this the “Academic Library Generation.”' - Howard Trickey
