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How to deal with a candidate that cheated at the initial test?

I was asked to participate in an interview with a candidate for a junior programmer job within the company I work in. The interview includes a colleague of mine an HR representative. Studying the solutions provided to the problems (the initial…
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Is it acceptable to deny salary information to recruitment agent

I had a talk with a recruitment agent on the phone yesterday afternoon who called me about a position she wished to discuss with me. The call was going very well until the recruitment agent asked what my expected salary was. I responded with…
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What does M/F/D/V mean on a job application?

While filling out a job application in the US, I noticed a label designating M/F/D/V. Is this important? What does this label mean?
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Interview question "How long will you stay with us?"

Location: India Industry: Electronics I was being interviewed for a multinational company of relevant field. The job location was outside of India (my home country). During discussion with HR he straight away asked me “How many years you will be…
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What should one do when paychecks keep bouncing?

A friend of mine works at a small company, maybe around 50 employees. The company has repeatedly had insufficient funds in the bank to cover the employees' salaries, resulting in several of her paychecks bouncing. She gets paid eventually, but…
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How to deal with an employee who ignores you

I am having an issue with an employee/former co-worker who is flat out ignoring me. I work in a department in a college and for many years I worked as a student assistant. When I graduated I became a full-time employee and I became the supervisor to…
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Why are interviewers unaware of what's on my resume?

For reasons that are not relevant for this question, I went to several interviews at multiple companies in the past few months. What I noticed is that, in the vast majority of cases, interviewers have absolutely no idea about what's on my resume.…
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How can I tell my boss that my productivity is low due to a conflict with a coworker, without blaming the coworker?

Four months ago, I started a new job and joined a project with a co-worker who has been employed here for many years. We were both brought on as experts, but he has subdomain expertise that I do not and I have subdomain expertise that he does…
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Potential new employer wants to contact my current employer as part of intrusive background checks

I've got a formal job offer, conditional on the background checks. Because of my sector, the background checks are being detailed and intrusive. The prospective new employer wants to contact my current employer as part of these background checks.…
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Should I send out an apology email or IM after introducing a production bug?

I deployed a new version to a critical application in production last week. Post deployment we found out that the code in question ran into an edge case and we had to quickly roll back to the previous deployment. We ran the buggy code in question…
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Should I take the blame for an error by someone on the team I lead?

I am a software team lead. One of my guys built an update for android, but left the environment on "staging" and now everybody is freaking out: the marketing guys, PM, product owner. So far I have taken the "blame", and it is my fault really for not…
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Dealing with a co-worker who is a shameless careerist? He is deliberately bad at things that don't add value to his resume

I work as part of a 12 person software development team, which is one of several in the organization. We have a relatively new junior developer (6 months) who has managed to catch the eye of senior management (think three levels up) by consistently…
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How can an employer better accommodate workers on the autism-spectrum to reduce absence from work?

Question: What are measures an employer or colleagues can take to better accommodate workers who are on the autism-spectrum? The goal of the better accommodation/changed behavior would be to improve the wellbeing of colleagues on the spectrum to…
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What should I tell a customer when my co-worker fails to show up to a meeting?

I'll typically have meetings with customers in which they set it up and invite me and other co-workers. Sometimes I will show up to this meeting and my co-worker(s) won't because they forgot, became busy, didn't see the invite, or any number of…
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How to deal with people whose priority is to not get blamed?

I recently had a project which suffered a needless delay of a month because all three people involved thought it was someone else's turn to do something. My reaction was "Sigh, now finish the project". Their reaction was "See this chain of emails? I…
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