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Hi HN, My name is Jaclyn Ling and I'm the co-founder/CEO of Hatchways YC S19 (https://hatchways.io). Last summer, we launched our product that promotes internships instead of inter…

- we generally give an average salary to expect depending on your skill level/ experience level, so both the candidate and employer going in with a similar expectation. -at this ti…

I was really touched to read your story. Thank you for sharing your challenges, and particularly around how you felt the only other option was to go back to school just to get the …

Yep definitely a fair point. Our assessments are building out full projects (so it's less easy to share answers/ get one person to do one question and another person to do another)…

Right now we mainly onboard employers manually, and hoping to create the other side of the market in the near future.

Thank you for sharing and it sucks that you feel you 'wasted' years. I'm glad you found your way into tech and wishing you the best as well :)

Hey Pete this is great! Thanks for sharing. I'll reach out. Would be awesome if there was some way to help each other :)

Appreciate your comment! Will look more in-depth and perhaps reach out in the near future to pick your brain further (probably after the yc demo day rush though :P) Great website a…

Love this analogy. Everyone showcases their skills in different ways, and we definitely want to help more people shine in whatever run they perform best in.

I would guess in most cases candidates can't fully be their authentic self or perform at their best during the interview process, so for me I'm not sure I can boil it down to "fit"…

Thanks for sharing your story. Glad to hear you were able to overcome the traditional barriers. Great idea to explore design as an industry we can expand into in the future!

Thank you for your note on LinkedIn. I hope one day you'll come back and share your non-traditional story as well!

In some cases employers we work with are very open to offering visas for potential migrants, but because we mainly focus on startups at the moment this isn't super common (yet!)

Thanks for sharing your story. I hope your career transition has been rewarding since!

Thank you :)

I do think there is huge value in internship/ trial employment at all levels. We've personally hired a senior engineer this way-- she was working full-time and trialed with us for …

Really appreciate that you, as a non-traditional candidate, promote non-traditional hiring now that you are an employer!

Great questions. 1. Codility (to my knowledge) skews more short coding challenges, whereas ours are more practical project-based assessments. We're trying to assess "can you build"…

Thank you for this. It's a very difficult problem to solve because many employers are stuck in their own ways and going to go to big /enterprise companies and telling them they can…

Great ideas-- never thought about virtual career fairs, but that sounds very interesting. You're definitely right that undervalued AND entry-level candidates is a hard sell most of…

Thanks for signing up! We're still working on the dashboard side for employers so I'll be contacting you shortly to set up a meeting to share more. High level-- we're trying to app…

Thanks for your comment. To address your questions: -no the timer does not start until you hit 'start' button! -you are coding in your own environment an uploading a zip file once …

Hey there, thank you for sharing your cousin's story. I think you're definitely right that a great place to target are programs outside of top 10 CS programs. I do believe we could…

Great points and comments here. Few things to add: -one big benefit for our candidates doing our take-home project is that they only need to do one assessment that can they qualify…