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Stop hunting unicorns(linkedin.com)
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A great product is important, but it's not enough(linkedin.com)
1 points by justinY 11y ago|0 comments
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The Hidden Reason for Exploding Startup Costs(linkedin.com)
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DevOps Ninjas – please help us scale to 1M requests/min(jobscore.com)
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Help us scale our ruby app to 10B requests/month(jobscore.com)
2 points by justinY 12y ago|2 comments
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Help scale our Ruby app – 10x user, 3x revenue growth YOY(jobscore.com)
1 points by justinY 12y ago
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C++ Hacker (jobscore.com)
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50+ of the top 1,000 eTailers pay us for our software – Engineers needed(jobscore.com)
1 points by justinY 13y ago
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Our customers pay us $millions/yr to help them compete vs. AMZN(jobscore.com)
1 points by justinY 13y ago
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Growth/Press Hacker (jobscore.com)
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by justinY 13y ago
500friends founder/CEO here. It's not that people with 12+ years of experience are not as good. We were trying to screen out candidates (many of them who are smart) but have been "managers" for so long that they can&#x27
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by justinY 13y ago
Hello sir. 500friends founder/CEO here. It's not that people with 12+ years of experience are not as good. We were trying to screen out candidates (many of them who are smart) but have been "managers" for so long that th
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by justinY 13y ago
Brian, In our original job post, we had specified that the ideal candidate would, "not have more than 12 years of MANAGEMENT experience." We UNDERSTAND that this could be misunderstood to indicate that we do not value experienced
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by justinY 13y ago
That's because he (bob tekiela) was at 500friends until may of 2013. In other words, op is lying/mistaken because we were not hiring for this role last year.
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by justinY 13y ago
You do have a point sir.
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by justinY 13y ago
My co-founder was previously the (only) VP of Engineering (and did a great job), but we mutually parted ways after the Series B. These things happen... tl;dr, we are not "running through" them.
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by justinY 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188
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by justinY 13y ago
via 500friends founder/CEO. As I mentioned to you in my initial apology, we had a fire drill. That being said, the tardiness was inexcusable, and I talked to the developer about that. Regarding our interview questions, they were meant
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by justinY 13y ago
Thank you sir. my response here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188 Justin (500friends founder/CEO)
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by justinY 13y ago
500friends founder/CEO here. Look at my team - 500friends.com/team. Most people are who you may consider to be "old." And we wouldn't be where we're at without them. We do not discriminate against age. What we
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by justinY 13y ago
500friends founder/CEO here. Look at my team - 500friends.com/team. Most people are who you may consider to be "old." And we wouldn't be where we're at without them. We do not discriminate against age.
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by justinY 13y ago
that is not true... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188
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by justinY 13y ago
Thank you sir. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188
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by justinY 13y ago
YES, YOU ARE CORRECT, THANK YOU. And my team is very senior - check them out @ 500friends.com/team. We definitely value experience at 500friends.
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by justinY 13y ago
this has caused so many misinterpretations that I have edited it out of the post completely... But essentially, the ideal candidate was someone who was CODING 5-12 years ago...
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by justinY 13y ago
It has been no longer than 3 months...
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by justinY 13y ago
The reason for this is that if you haven't been coding (just managing) for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough for a company of our stage. We have gotten a lot of very smart but "big company" people w
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Being a hustler (or banker) does not qualify you for "biz dev" (forbes.com)
1 points by justinY 13y ago|0 comments
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Are you a real JavaScript Hacker? (jobscore.com)
1 points by justinY 13y ago
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Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer (jobscore.com)
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