BrandonWatson

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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
It being 2 pages is a cultural vestige - that was my point. When you think about the resume, it's a terrible representation of you and what you can do in a work place. If a human is to look for a summary, sure, 2 pages is great, but wh
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
It's slightly different than that. It's the low "cost" of publishing a job post to various boards, and the low "cost" of applying to jobs that are posted. The combinatorial math has exploded the number of appli
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
There's a huge difference between objective measures and skill sets, and how effective someone is in performing work. This is why leet code tests often fail to truly identify the best talent. Working in teams, problem solving, etc are
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
I've built tech around this. Spent a ton of time here. It's shockingly good, provided your process of using the LLMs is sound. I had built demo tech to solve the problem of helping candidates improve their answers. Turns out that&
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
I have long said with my customers that the #1 job of the interview loop is to answer the following question: can this candidate do this job at this company and likely exceed expectations? It's surprising how many companies are bad at
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
Me. I am building and releasing in this space. I have a tool that I "shipped" as demo-ward (loopalla.com) but pivoted to HiredUpon to focus higher in the funnel. I want to rejigger the tech I built for Loopalla. I would love to do
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
I have already built HiredUpon and InterviewAt. I have been focused on this space as ex-AMZN, ex-MSFT, ex-startup, etc for the last 3 years. My experience with ATS systems shows that there is room for improvement. If there are any decision
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by BrandonWatson 3y ago
I've worked with Dave before. He will in fact implement ask the things in a very short period of time. We used to talk about him as the master of spinning developer plates.
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
I for one would love to see a $$ breakdown of what is being proposed here. This is the one thing I find always catches people out. That, and some of the default aws options which aren't necessary but can really run up the $$ intentiona
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Ask HN: Indie Hacker, Solopreneur, Entrepreneur Achievement Milestones
1 points by BrandonWatson 4y ago|0 comments
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
This is very helpful - thanks for taking some time to respond.
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
Do you mind if I ask follow up question? Are the feedback/forms internally developed or part of an ATS? Are you having these forms filled out post interview, and discussed in the room/driving the meeting?
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
Do you mind if I ask a follow up? Do you feel that the breakdown with recruiters is because there is not an easy way to present as "suitable" for a role? At the risk of leading to an answer, do you think that this is related to th
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Ask HN: What Do You Hate About the Hiring Process?
2 points by BrandonWatson 4y ago|8 comments
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
I have been doing free mock interviews for the last 2 years at InterviewAt. My free calendar is booked out to end of June, but I do have a ton of mock interviews available on the YouTube channel. These have my inputs as to how candidates ca
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
I'm going to do all of you a favor - this is one of the greatest stories ever. EBUG from just 2 years ago. Here's the incident as it happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0JTRm-wf2E&ab_channel=Slick...
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by BrandonWatson 4y ago
This will be a very underappreciated observation.
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by BrandonWatson 5y ago
Impacted iOS Kindle users ... We had an oopsie. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/bug-i... Customer fears were far worse than reality, but my management team (up to and inc
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by BrandonWatson 5y ago
To the extent that this is helpful for those looking - I am still doing COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE interview prep. Go to InterviewAt.com to sign up. I also have real mock interview questions with answer analysis on youtube. https:/&#x2
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by BrandonWatson 6y ago
To the extent that I can be helpful, I've been doing FREE behavioral interview prep through InterviewAt[dot]com. I'm ex-AMZN ex-MSFT executive and have run many large teams and been on hundred of hiring loops at all levels. I have
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by BrandonWatson 6y ago
Yeah, I'm wish it were that simple with the Bezos emails. :)
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What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video](youtube.com)
61 points by BrandonWatson 6y ago|64 comments
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by BrandonWatson 6y ago
We've all been there. You do the loop and the feedback you get from the recruiter/hiring manager is binary Yes || No. And when it's a No, you get one of the two types of feedback: 1) Sorry, you didn't get it 2) None This
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Show HN: InterviewAt – mock interviews by a real exec with real feedback(interviewat.com)
3 points by BrandonWatson 6y ago|1 comments
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by BrandonWatson 6y ago
(posted this on ShowHN last week) I was on track to have this paid service offering launched in the coming weeks, but the economic uncertainty brought on by COVID caused me to rethink the go to market plan. I iterated quickly on something I
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by BrandonWatson 6y ago
I was on track to have this paid service offering launched in the coming weeks, but the economic uncertainty brought on by COVID caused me to rethink the go to market plan. I iterated quickly on something I could offer to those in need now
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Show HN: Mock Interview Service(interviewat.com)
1 points by BrandonWatson 6y ago|1 comments
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
I'm an ex pretty sr level exec at a few of those FAANG companies (we'll add an M on there to make that true). I transitioned out in 2016 to redesign my path and optimize for my quality of life. It's been the best decision I c
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
There's a great scene from the show Modern Family where one of the parents threatens to ground the kid by taking away their iPad. The child's response was perfect: "that's going to affect you way more than it affects me.
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
Back in 2006 I cofounded a company called IMSafer. My co-founders went on to be S09 class with Y!Combinator. We grew up as hackers and thought we could end around the problem of kids removing safe guards to our software. What we quickly fou

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