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The pitch is designed to screen out some people who are a poor fit for the company's business model.

A charitable reading allows for the possibility the company pays well. A less charitable one is that their logic is along the lines of why Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1677...



Great perspective. I've never went so far as to think of companies as scammers but it makes sense in some cases.




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