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“Hey there; everything ready?”
“Yes, I have my laptop with the presentation, but I also made some hard copies of
the deck in case we don't have time to project.”
“Good call,” he says, stepping into the elevator and grabbing a copy from your
stack. “Joey prefers hard copy of everything.” He lips through the deck. “Are you
conident of these indings and recommendations?”
“Yes, they all make sense given what I've seen in the lab over the past year.”
“OK,” he says, still lipping through the deck. “One word of caution: Keep it
brief. Let the data do the talkin'. He respects that and his brain contains a well-tuned
nonsense detector.”
“Got it.”
You step off the elevator, and Joey's secretary stares at you impassively. “Can I
help you?”
“We have a 10 o'clock with Mr. Vellucci.”
She glances at her computer. “Yup, I see you guys in here. He's waiting for you;
step right in. He's anxious to get you guys in and out because he's got to catch a
light at noon.”
Vellucci's ofice is a combination of old world charm and modern chic, with
two luxurious sofas in the anteroom that leads to his desk. Behind his opulent
desk, a panoramic window provides a sweeping view of the old mill town where
Behemoth
makes its home. Vellucci is on the phone, berating someone, but he
sees you and Hans enter. He waves you in, motioning for to take seats on the
sofas.
“Look, I already give you my answer!” he yells into the phone. “Now you've got
to execute!” He hangs up the phone, stands up, and comes out from behind his desk
to sit next to you on the couch. During the entire movement, his eyes remain ixed
on you, ignoring Hans.
“So, you're the Boolean fanatic, eh?”
“Well, not exactly, sir. Let's just say I'm fanatic about good data”, you say, pass-
ing him your PowerPoint deck.
“That's not what I heard” he deiantly replies, lipping through the pages of the
report. “I heard you think our search should be one big Boolean box; sort of like
Google but with the ability to do insanely-long Boolean stringing.” He looks up. “Is
this an accurate assessment of your indings, or is there some kind of evil spin going
on here?”
Sir, I'm not sure how you obtained that impression,” you reply quietly but with
conidence. “But allow me to describe the research I conducted.”
“Ah! A diplomat as well!” Vellucci exclaims with a sardonic chuckle, looking
over at Hans. “This is one slick researcher”, he says, pointing to you. But Hans has
your back; he stares at Vellucci impassively. Sensing support form Hans, he turns
back to you and quiets down. “Alright, alright..waddya got?”
“We ran an unmoderated usability study with recruiters searching for candidates
for speciic jobs using our current search engine—not the Novix search engine. After
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