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Comment · 9 years ago
It could well be, as a non-native speaker I'm not aware of such shades of meaning. It sounds a bit "TopTal speak" to me. Probably I picked it up subconsciously as I was skimming my TopTal post during writing.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks for the encouragement! :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Scores are normalized so it doesn't matter. If you always give a low score, that score will count more after normalization. It would be interesting to know how they treat outliers: for example, if you give always scores 1-2.5 and then suddenly a 4.
Comment · 9 years ago
Once upon a time, a hiring committee was presented some feedbacks and had to come to a yes/no decision for some candidates. All them were rejected. It turned out that the feedbacks were of the hiring committee's members, from when they got hired.
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Comment · 9 years ago
It is the Zurich office from the street.
Comment · 9 years ago
Right, with 4 being basically impossible to get, and scores being normalized wrt the history of the interviewer.

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