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by l3amm 14y ago
The Pipedrive guys have been super helpful in helping to form our distribution strategy, independent of their great product. Congrats guys!
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by l3amm 14y ago
FYI: thoughts based on posting/studying CL ads, so application to SO may be limited. Title > ASP.net (c#) and Javascript Developer (Fast Growing Startup) Straightforward title, like the inclusion of the type of company and type of work
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by l3amm 14y ago
In general I think that working in an area you have experience in makes things smoother especially in the beginning. You know the pain points without having to do any research and have some initial "instinct" that points you toward potentia
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by l3amm 14y ago
This is great solution and the impetus behind Interiew Street. And while HN is a very programmer centric culture, most jobs can't be automated in this way. Look at the OP's job description, how do you automate that? And how does someone lik
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by l3amm 14y ago
While I agree that work samples are definitely the way to go, I'm unsure how you could possibly engineer a work-sample that is time effective for 600 people. Clearly, the first pass of the screen cannot be the work sample alone or you will
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by l3amm 14y ago
> I had broad competition While the competition in these situations is not often that broad (though there will always be a few ivy leaguers in that mess), the real problem is the noise factor. The chance that your resume even gets read
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by l3amm 14y ago
The much sadder reality is what actually happens in a company that posts that ad: 1) Optimistically post the job ad. 2) Receive hundreds of responses within hours of posting it. 3) Begin going through those hundreds of responses, reading co
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by l3amm 14y ago
Adding hurdles will definitely reduce the number of applicants, but what you'll find is that if you ask for X, Y, Z in the ad most people will still send you whatever they were going to send you before (most likely a resume and coverletter)
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by l3amm 14y ago
The comments have become a firestorm of grammar-as-a-filter for programmers. While this is an interesting debate, I think there are three things about this filter that give it value: 1) Grammar serves as a cultural touchstone in the company
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by l3amm 14y ago
This is an excellent point. The analogy I like to use is based on prospecting: you can try to find fully-formed gold from the earth or you can smelt down ore into something useful. Right now the valley is full of prospectors stealing gold n
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by l3amm 14y ago
That's really too bad. I don't work with/for them, but I know many of the recruiting team and they have been very responsive to feedback in the past. If you have specific comments/critiques feel free to message me, I'd be happy to pass the
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by l3amm 14y ago
Sadly, I think this is right. I know several recruiters at a big-name recruiting agency in Silicon Valley, they try to act like an internal recruiter (thorough vetting of candidates, understanding company culture, etc) and they make much le
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by l3amm 14y ago
It really depends on the size of organization. For something like Google, I would say that long-response times are the norm and frequently the recruiter/contact person are extremely swamped and may have forgotten about you. Not necessarily
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by l3amm 14y ago
It integrates with Google Apps, specifically: Google Calendar, Google SSO, Google Contacts, and Gmail. The widget listed is currently for Google Chrome and inside the Gmail frame. Thanks for the feedback on pricing. We are going to add a ti
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by l3amm 14y ago
Totally agree, I think of hiring as a chance to create company cultural emissaries. The best companies turn potential recruits into advocates for their brand, so even if they don't end up working at the company they tell their friends about
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by l3amm 14y ago
Thanks for your interest, we haven't officially launched, but we have a number of early beta customers. We'll be doing an official launch in the next month. Our initial beta customers have been working really close with me and the rest of t
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by l3amm 14y ago
As a start-up CEO in the hiring-efficiency space, I get to see a lot of company's hiring process in gory detail. Anyone who's been around new start-ups (and old guys, see: Google) has seen a great candidate withdraw from a req due to long r
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by l3amm 14y ago
Being a good external recruiter in Silicon Valley is a tricky balancing act. Everyone in the Valley wants the superstars, so competition is ridiculous. Additionally, cultural fit in small startups is of utmost importance, so you have to lea
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by l3amm 14y ago
Depending on how you define interview. In my experience a rough funnel of 100 people (random people through a job board, not referrals) -> 20 phone screens -> 5-10 actual interviews. Generally at large organizations in the Valley a
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by l3amm 16y ago
An example of meeting friends-of-friends is soshi.com. They recently launched at Stanford and leverage your facebook network to display eligible friends of friends, it two people express interest in one another, it matches you up.
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Facebook updates while driving your car(engadget.com)
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by l3amm 16y ago
TL;DR version (though you should just read it): The space industry is a great example of path dependency and lock-in in innovation. The reasons why we use rockets to launch satellites are historical dating back to the days of Hitler and the
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by l3amm 16y ago
I agree, it's sad to see posts like this because the medium itself could be used to such great effect, but this effect is blunted by the prevalence of poorly-designed, idiot-driven infographics. As a counter-point to the infographic trend,
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by l3amm 16y ago
These kinds of things are why I hate papers with undetailed methods sections. Being too explicit in the methods section is obviously unnecessary (e.g. restating Bayes' theorem), however your assumptions and probablistic methods should at le
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by l3amm 16y ago
Presumably if they can identify patients with high likelihoods of returning they can take extra precautions while they are in the hospital the first time. Potentially this could be used to stop unnecessary hospital visits (via education, pr
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by l3amm 16y ago
I think this dovetails nicely with Mark Suster's article from awhile back: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/22/6-tips-to-buil... Basically, active engagement with journalists is key to getting the right press, especially in a co
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by l3amm 16y ago
I really like the clean design, but part of what i love about HN is the fact that you can quickly scan 20+articles just by reading single sentences of text. I would like this format better if it had some type of flipbook functionality mappe
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by l3amm 16y ago
I like the analogy. I'm in graduate school, but I've recently realized that I would much rather be an entrepreneur. I think a large part of the problem is that I'm in the slog-mode of graduate school where I've stopped learning, and I can f
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by l3amm 16y ago
"> 600 million years of evolution did not prepare humans for traveling at 60 mph (much less controlling two tons of steel and insuring the safety of their children, while doing so), nor did it prepare humans for sitting in front of a br
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by l3amm 16y ago
Agreed, now if only someone could write the one line command to robustly install couchdb on ubuntu.

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