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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
Java is a tad boring to program in, but other than that there's not too much to complain about. I'm personally going to stick to what I think is its best part, the JVM, and use Clojure to abstract myself from all the lower level necessities
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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
It's a good point. The only case I can think of where you wouldn't want that is if you don't even know if you'll have enough runway in 9 months, but that's probably not quite hiring stage.
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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
People will occasionally hint at this. The impression I got is that startups often interview for high technical skills and hope that the brief interaction during the meetings gave them sufficient insight into the person's personality and cu
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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
I want to make sure I got you correctly. Are you saying that the technical (co-)founder of the startup you're interviewing for on average doesn't know how to spot a good programmer?
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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
I can tell you from personal experience that very large companies, especially the ones that are no longer perceived as hot as they once were, have a rather low bar of entry. I can see however why a small business would want to be very cauti
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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
What is your typical customer, if you don't mind me asking? Can smaller startups afford your services? Also, do you consider culture fit at all? I read somewhere that because recruiters make their money on volume, their interest in small co
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by ihadaquestion 14y ago
I hear that many small companies cannot afford to use recruiting services because of their prohibitive costs. What about that case?
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Ask HN: Why is tech recruiting broken?
4 points by ihadaquestion 14y ago|17 comments