Krithika Varagur

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Should You Include a Reference Letter in Your Job Application? · 6 May 2021 podcast

the threat of litigation or pushback or just any kind of interpersonal problems.

So it definitely is a factor and we are seeing a rise in kind of no comment policies in a lot of places for that reason.

I think at smaller companies and startups, it seemed to me like people valued references more just because they're a smaller team.

They're not subcontracting a lot of HR stuff and they want to make sure every next employee is a really good addition because they're bootstrapping and so on.

I would say it's less popular or important in technical fields where you might have a coding assignment or multiple coding assignments to prove that you can do the job.

At big tech companies, for example, at Apple, where one of the people I talked to for the story work now.

He didn't have any references at all, but he did do a take home coding assignment that took about six hours.

And that was by far the most important criteria for getting hired.

So, you know, in some of these STEM fields that can be more useful than calling up some for a qualitative reference.

But the test is not restricted to STEM, of course.

There's writing tests, editing tests.

You know, you can really test any part of any job.

You could even test a line cook on the job, for example.

So the rise of kind of substantive interview assignments has also displaced references in some ways.

Thank you so much for having me again.

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Negotiating Salary Might Not Be the Best Option · 2 Mar 2021 podcast

This is one of the most interesting takeaways for me from my reporting, which is that almost every veteran negotiation expert says that salary is the least of your problems and you shouldn't focus on base pay.

Thanks so much for having me.

You know, it's hard to say.

I think that it's become kind of a cultural paradigm, especially for millennials and younger workers, that you should ask for more.

And according to veteran scholars who've been looking at this for a period of decades, it slowly became more and more prevalent since the 80s and 90s.

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