jamespollack

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Ask HN: How to improve Who's Hiring posts?
2 points by jamespollack 6y ago|0 comments
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by jamespollack 6y ago
so what's the way to do this that doesn't break the rules? just an Ask HN post about how to improve Who's Hiring posts?
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by jamespollack 6y ago
that's not what happened. if you click the link you included, your "self-respect?" comment isn't on that thread at all. because it was a reply to my comment. you're intentionally misrepresenting what happened. le
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by jamespollack 6y ago
The link addresses the "If they know you can't get more elsewhere" portion of what you posted, but I didn't respond substantially to the rest. Thanks for the chance to expand. > "at risk of harm due to a possibl
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by jamespollack 6y ago
that's on me, looks like it was below the fold and is still there for now. but you're likely about to send it to the bottom for being off-topic, like you did last month. i've posted the same thing for 3 or so months in a row
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by jamespollack 6y ago
Companies literally collude to keep salaries down. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
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by jamespollack 6y ago
edit: he did not delete my comment, it was below the fold. sorry. my question is still the same though. yup, dang already deleted my comment on Who's Hiring. what's your issue with engineers being able to compare processes betw
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by jamespollack 6y ago
Once again, I'll post this. Admins will probably send it to the bottom, but it's especially important now that companies tell us about their process so that we can compare and expedite, including how many: - technical phone scree
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by jamespollack 6y ago
What are you on about? Here's the post I replied to below, it said nothing about self-respect. You're the one who brought that up and still haven't explained how compensation factors into your "best work" / &qu
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by jamespollack 6y ago
From an HN admin this is pretty off-putting. If I work for a company and I'm earning them millions of dollars, you're saying that I don't deserve to be compensated proportionally, I should just give them my time and effort be
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by jamespollack 6y ago
> Last I checked, I was 9700 kilometers away from California. Not everybody on HN is from Silicon Valley. So... you have strong labor where you live? Where do you live? Employment is not at will? Everyone gets a contract with a specif
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by jamespollack 6y ago
just write it yourself, you don't need their permission!
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by jamespollack 6y ago
exactly! if you're taking home the same salary whether you're creating massive value for the company, why bother?
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by jamespollack 6y ago
"not hiring a good candidate is way better than hiring someone who turns out to be bad." is it though? CA is at-will employment, so there's literally nothing stopping a company from firing someone that isn't working out
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by jamespollack 6y ago
it's not a relationship, it's a job - you don't have to fall in love with every candidate.
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by jamespollack 6y ago
people aren't cars
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by jamespollack 6y ago
Google tries to "remove bias" by not having you interview with anyone you might work with or even people in your area. During my onsites for a VR role none of my interviewers were VR people. It's "in case you want to s
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by jamespollack 6y ago
"Resumes are only for screening" -- yeah FAANGs suck at looking at you as a person, at every point in the interview process you end up having to repeat yourself and almost no interviewer ever looks at your resume. it's as i
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by jamespollack 6y ago
how come you have to ask this stuff at the end? wouldn't it make more sense for this information to be provided up front? what does it matter if i'm technically qualified for your job if your team size, structure, tech stack, re
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by jamespollack 6y ago
Thanks for the response. Appreciate that you're working on it. Good luck. Let me know if you want some help :)
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by jamespollack 6y ago
@dang Righto - so will you consider asking companies to include some of this information? It's basically impossible to compare job opportunities without it. If you see two similar postings, but one has a 6 week process with unpaid pr
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by jamespollack 6y ago
@HN - is there a reason why this was moved to the bottom of the comments list? everything else seems to be chronological and this post has 51 upvotes when i'm posting this. will you consider expanding your rules to make sure that com
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by jamespollack 6y ago
It's especially important now that companies tell us about their process so that we can compare and expedite, including how many: - technical phone screens - video interviews / coding interviews - projects (esp. length and duratio
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by jamespollack 6y ago
ayy, that's awesome if they pay candidates for significant work samples. i think there's some discussion to be had about what's significant. anything more than 1.5-2hours in my opinion. an hour or two is how long an interv
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by jamespollack 6y ago
by "classic" do you mean the "if you were stuck in a blender?" questions? you haven't interviewed in a while if you think they're asking those. it's all standard DS&A whiteboarding, etc. there'
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by jamespollack 6y ago
so you're gonna pay us to do these "work samples" at market rate, right?
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by jamespollack 6y ago
Love getting the jump on this. It's especially important now that companies tell us about their process so that we can compare and expedite, including how many: - technical phone screens - video interviews - projects (esp. length and
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by jamespollack 7y ago
I just want to thank you and point out that Picnic has the most thorough explanation of the interview process I've seen in a posting lately. Thank you.
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by jamespollack 7y ago
HN really needs to change the rules on this, if that's so - it's incredibly problematic that candidates can't compare processes.
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by jamespollack 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...

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