weeding

You may say that whoever does the weeding is practicing censorship, but that doesn't mean it's an unnecessary job.

And if they do a great job at weeding out bad apples then eventually it will become accepted practice.

This is presented as a weeding out technique but it is actually a negotiation step.

So, getting feedback of the quality of the target of clickbait links would be potentially useful in weeding out the garbage.

Yes, it's difficult (and morally hazardous) to decide what constitutes a weed, but the alternative -- not weeding -- is worse.

Simply asking the same set of questions to all candidates won't fix it, if the questions themselves have the effect of weeding out women.

Rather than weeding out the people who will fail the test, it weeds out the people who understand that asking for homework is unreasonable.

Someone has to do the weeding, or it will be all weeds.

> it easily pays for itself in identifying good candidates and weeding out bad ones It even easily pays for itself in just weeding out the bad ones.

The sprint impediment is taken as a measure for weeding out low-performers.

I haven't put all to much time into weeding out all the bugs yet.

I know some people get frustrated by those kinds of questions, but I'd just see it as a reverse weeding out process.

I think jquery was pointing out that this affirmative action might explain the reduction in diversity after the "weeding out", which the article author mentions.

Maybe a more useful indicator is weeding out the candidates that didn't say "no thanks." Cause really why are they so desperate for a job and why do they have all this free time?

This is a great line: "If you view your staff as a liability, it's more likely a leadership problem." If a company's employees are not an asset, then leadership hasn't done it's job of either weeding out the bad people or spending enough money to attract and grow good people.

Saying "invert a binary tree" creates an immediate suspicion in my mind that what I'm really being asked is not "do you know how to swap elements", but rather some kind of weeding-out trivia looking for a specific, probably named-after-a-person, algorithm they're expecting me to remember from a college course (tricky for me in particular, as I didn't do CS in college).

Weeding out those that don't take the material serious from the ones that do.

Weeding is a huge part of managing a collection.