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Thanks!!

Probably, but not everyone has the luxury of a great tech person to lead their remote tech team. Also, if it’s a field where the nontechnical person has some level of domain expert…

glad it resonates, painful stuff using waterfall at this stage

Thanks! Will ask my colleagues at YouTeam to fix this!

Glad it’s useful!

Glad it helps!

I'm looking for a technical partner. I think there's no secret recipe, but I especially like the answers below that suggest to be methodical about finding people and assume most wo…

Glad you like it + appreciate the kind words.

OP here: I wrote this post to shed some light on everything I've learned about managing remote developer teams when you're nontechnical (as in you don't write usable code for your …

I'm the founder/CEO of The Lobby (YC W18). Looking for a founding team member to lead our engineering efforts in NYC. Here's a post I wrote describing it genuinely: https://medium.…

Hello! Thanks for the candid feedback. Only time will tell :). best of luck

They already spend time doing this for friends/alumni/family. Whether or not employees are fully productive at work is a completely different discussion - we're just trying to give…

OP here: Thanks so much to the HN community for all the amazing support + critical feedback. Deeply appreciated! Apologies if I don't see / respond to more comments, will try to ch…

definitely a concern. For something like this to happen, The Lobby has to have already reached a very large mass (i.e. employers wouldn't care otherwise), but we'll think of guard …

hello! i like this idea - we'll keep it in mind. again my only concern is when The Lobby does pre-screening without giving any coaching, we again resort to arbitrary measures such …

Thank you! On it :).

Got it, I misread that!

Exactly on chicken & egg - but we feel the hyper local approach is a really actionable way to solve it, we're already seeing it work in our niche. It's not really our responsibilit…

Again here would suggest you check out GLG, Alphasights and other expert networks. They deal with much more sensitive info than "interview prep,"and much larger dollar figures; the…

Hello! Appreciate your deep dive on the thread and agree that if we look at bits and pieces of my comments, it's not totally clear. So let me write up a unified answer here. In som…

Yes! See your points. We'll have to agree to disagree :). Good night!!! Appreciate the candid feedback.