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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: New Employee Test
- Message-ID: <24271@alice.att.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 14:38:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24271
- References: <assist.721943530@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1992Nov19.002724.13837@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <gregc.722224296@eagle.fsl.noaa.gov> <641@ulogic.UUCP> <1992Nov21.112718@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- In article <1992Nov21.112718@IASTATE.EDU> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
-
- > I thought I would mention that, at least it in New York, it is illegal to give
- > a test to prospective employees before hiring them.
-
- I was windering how long it was going to take this to turn up.
-
- In the good old days, when Bell Labs was actually hiring people,
- I was given a thing called the `Recruiter's Handbook' to read.
-
- If I remember correctly, it said that any kind of skill test in an
- employment interview was a violation of Federal law unless the test
- had been proven to be non-discriminatory.
-
- On the other hand, the handbook said that there was nothing wrong
- asking questions like
-
- `Tell me about a programming problem you solved that you
- found particularly interesting.'
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-