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Same here. Most difficult people just need a challenge and a little recognition. Give them an area of ownership and you get both.

So-called difficult people who are actually very talented have clashed with middle management types for a long time.

Credit card entry, I think you should know a few basics like don't put it in MongoDB?? Or nah? It's just like any other user data?

How about a background check - can anyone take a user-entered DL and randomly Google stuff to see what they find?

Can I store your SSN in plain text in a text file? Why not?

The user had to upload their ID for IDV but I use Vercel. I guess I have to put it on S3. What should the bucket policy be for all these driver's license photos - there are so many???

And 0% of human systematic research considers "anecdotal" of any value at all lol. What is your overall point? That personal experiences you had are more important than rigorous scientific research? Lol

So you don't need to know anything about credit cards for someone to enter it into an app? I don't get the take (is it bad sarcasm?)

> There's no point being hyper-specific about the exact software packages because that's not what they want

Okay. This makes it sound like they're more sophisticated but it seems more like they are less sophisticated, less specific, and a lot more vague in the job descriptions they themselves create.

If you look at any technical role, game dev or something where people are building important things at scale - there are a lot of specifics. Libraries, methodologies, where if you didn't know them you are nowhere near a fit.

I'm just wondering. It's OpenAI. Surely there is some domain-specific something beyond "has experience shipping front-end and back-end services" since that includes basically everyone.

It makes this job look like a Starbucks role.

> just an app development role

Maybe this is part of the problem

> Have experience shipping production full-stack products across modern web frontends and backend services.

I'm amazed that the requirements are so low (or at least this vague) for jobs at companies like these.

Has anyone else had the experience of going to an interview and feeling like you were never asked any qualifying questions?

All the questions were easy, your answers were straightforward, you "got them right", but then were not chosen?

I find on the other side, they're also left with dozens of people who "passed" and then it comes down to a pretty arbitrary decision on who gets hired (if we are talking external, no referral, etc.)

I wonder if they can make job descriptions highly specific to filter the shortlist faster and more effectively (to actually get a shortlist).

Anyway end rant. Cool job, hope you fill it.

Apparently not

fsflover you are one of the lowest quality shills I've ever encountered

Read again genius

"anecdote" is the word you are looking for - which means based only on personal stories and not systematic research.