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The Pipedrive guys have been super helpful in helping to form our distribution strategy, independent of their great product. Congrats guys!

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, lik…

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 …

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 des…

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 pas…

> 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 n…

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)…

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 goi…

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 valu…

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.…

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/…

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 candidate…

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 extremel…

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. …

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…

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 custom…

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) …

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 i…

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 interview…

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 e…

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 satelli…

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…

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), ho…

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…