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HN contributions only amounted to about 5% of the total score. Mostly it was Github contributions (measured by number of forks and watchers and a couple other things) and Stack Ove…

We made money from matching our job seeking users to companies. We contracted with companies to do this. If you go to the hiring? link at the top you can see some of that. Most of …

Yeah, finding the homepage should probably be easier to do from the blog. I normally try to link to the homepage in the first couple sentences of the post, but not always, and not …

Cofounder here. Since you guys are speculating, I thought I'd jump in and try to answer a few questions and help where I can. tl:dr it's a really hard business because matching dev…

San Francisco is 1.85x what it costs to live in, say, Nashville, TN. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=salary+comparison+Nashv...

Wrote a relevant blog post about this issue not too long ago. The article states the obvious of course. Talent isn't evenly distributed, but it is distributed. What's most compelli…

Auto-delete all messages that contain the phrase "my client" and you'll eliminate 90% of spammy recruiter emails in my experience. That's the goal, right? If the recruiter had an a…

Same is true for sales-type emails, I'd say. All too often, the mistake is to "sell" the reader in the initial email. That only works if you're selling something incredibly compell…

Most companies seriously underestimate the level of exposure they have. We usually recommend applying inbound marketing techniques to your recruiting process to improve your exposu…

I've been playing around with it recently, among other options. I'd definitely say it's closer to the way I work, but not quite "it" yet. Two things I think might help: 1) Integrat…

Not as it relates to MOOCs. IIRC the stated business model of Udacity is related to helping graduates find jobs.

I think this is correct, for the most part. Call me a dirty capitalist, but I think that especially for problem no. 1 the solution probably needs to involve--in a significant way--…

A little feedback: I think the real interesting answers won't necessarily come from the companies themselves. I think it's a good start, but much more interesting from my perspecti…

Not completely fleshed out jemka, but we're working on this over at Work for Pie. https://workforpie.com/companies/gallery/ Free for companies to set up a page.

I think the most interesting bit of the Stripe article was that they did most of their hiring via referrals. That's really one of the very few ways you're going to be able to hire …

We've been working to solve this problem for a long time at https://workforpie.com/ . I completely agree with everything OP says, but I'll tell you what the real problem is: time. …

The am>ventures site is here: http://amventures.co/ We're really happy with the work they've done for us. For early stage startups, they're a great option.

Co-founder of Work for Pie (the other company mentioned in the article) here. I will say I'm glad that these guys expanded from their original, pretty elitist degree and/or experie…

I think where the college and credentials bit is failing--for me at least--is the lack of differentiation between "learning to do" and "learning to think." I went to a liberal arts…