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Yes, be a good trained puppy! Your mind was made to train giving the right answers to business recruitment experts! Learn what you should think and how to be a good A+ wagie!!! Follow the rules. Make the desired mindset your own! Remove your critical thinking and tell yourself: my whole purpose is to serve the globocorp stakeholders! If you do a good job you make them a ton of money so they can get new mega-yachts/mansions/islands/luxury! If you or the economy don’t do so well the next year it is utterly important to protect the stakeholder-wealth and remove you from the payroll :) Good and now go and train to give the answers they want to hear :)

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I can't figure out the insight of this comment? Ostensibly it is meant to reveal how misanthropic this approach is, but what I see being defined is: an organization trying to find talent that agrees with their perspective and 2-sided at-will employment?

"Yes, be a good trained puppy! Make a reservation to be able to get into the restaurant. Read the menu, then order an entree. Then eat the food the chef made just for you. Chew it allllll up." I guess you can make any banal activity seem misanthropic with this tone?

Its not too hard to figure out this is a satirical comment about the future of work. I guess most people do not want to be cast, directed or performance rated by machines.

I guess I am missing the reference to machines in the comment and all I see being satirized is an interview process.

Google is well known for hoarding/warehousing talent, and this is exactly how they find compliant employees, not competent ones.

Google employees are mostly competent

but very obedient though, very obedient

they even have dog whistles attached to them, aka. a pager that will call them whenever the corporation needs them

Well it's a flawed optimization in the end. Shareholders will actually not gain from removing critical thinking, the inverse happens but at an unknown point in time which is somehow the worst-case for a shareholder. But I think things actually got better, there was a time when people would have to answer about their greatest weaknesses that they are impatient about tasks getting finished.

i feel like this is an attempt to train an AI model so they can get rid of those stinky human recruiters

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