[sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com

[Joseph Brenner]

A friend of mine-- with weak credit-- once commented with some annoyance
that a place had pulled a credit report on him and then hired him anyway.
My thought was they might like programmers with bad credit because they're
more likely to stick around longer.

Really, I think things like this are essentially nonsense.  Companies like
to do things like this because it makes them feel like they're being
diligent, but really they're making hiring decisions on first impressions,
or, if you're lucky, a half-hour of technical interviews.




On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:

> What is it about bad credit that might be any of your business as the
> person's employer?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:35:01PM -0800, Earl Ruby wrote:
> > Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an
> > explanation. We're not heartless bastards.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman <uri at stemsystems.com> wrote:
> > > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote:
> > >
> > >> We require three professional references from candidates at the
> > >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background
> > >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate
> > >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation.
> > >
> > >
> > > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is
> working to
> > > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get
> > > credit again.
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries.
> > >
> > >
> > > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :)
> > >
> > > uri
> > >
> > >
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