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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 i…

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 ha…

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 b…

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…

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 expec…

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…

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 th…

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.

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 a…

For those of you who have jumped off the corporate train (or never got on) - what would you consider the key "achievement" points in your journey? I started thinking through what I…

This is very helpful - thanks for taking some time to respond.

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 r…

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 …

For the past 2 years I have been running free and paid mock interviews with hundreds of candidates who are primarily targeting tech companies - free content on YT under InterviewAt…

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 Y…

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=_0JTR…

This will be a very underappreciated observation.

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 (…

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 …

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 bee…

Yeah, I'm wish it were that simple with the Bezos emails. :)

Hey HN: I've pulled together a video for one of the most common questions I get about Amazon: What's it like to receive a question mark email from Jeff Bezos? https://www.youtube.c…

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: …

(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 reth…