Doesn't look scalable for a startup but I'd give my pinky (OK, maybe just a month's salary) for having a decent tech recruiter work for me (developer open to new opportunities), as in sparing me of the 90% of BS that I usually go through when dealing with recruiters/companies.
Ask HN: Do you know startups that are changing the world of tech recruitment?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you know startups that are changing the world of tech recruitment?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. What was the screening like? I did a lot of work in candidate screening at my old job; this is a hobbyhorse of mine. Thanks for responding!
Apparently, the comment depth is exceeded.. You can mail me (id in my profile) and I am happy to discuss it.
Sigh.
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#13Re: Ask HN: Do you know startups that are changing the world of tech recruitment?
#14Doesn't look scalable for a startup but I'd give my pinky (OK, maybe just a month's salary) for having a decent tech recruiter work for me (developer open to new opportunities), as in sparing me of the 90% of BS that I usually go through when dealing with recruiters/companies.
thanks lazyant; there are specific challenges for a startup which we're trying to address in the product. happy to chat more if you'd like to try.
Re: Ask HN: Do you know startups that are changing the world of tech recruitment?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. What was the screening like? I did a lot of work in candidate screening at my old job; this is a hobbyhorse of mine. Thanks for responding!
Apparently, the comment depth is exceeded.. You can mail me (id in my profile) and I am happy to discuss it.
It's an anti-flamewar device to hide the "reply" on deep threads. You can just click "link" and reply from there, though.
I'm be interested in hearing what you have to say, so I'd be much obliged if you'd continue posting. ;-)
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#16I started a project similar to talentbin.com: scraping Github, StackOverflow, and about two dozen other sites to compile searchable developer profiles. Figuring out when a Github and StackOverflow profile belonged to the same person was a pretty fun challenge. Eventually I abandoned it though, because it felt like I was just enabling keyword-based recruiter spam. Selling it to people made me feel bad instead of good.
Re: Ask HN: Do you know startups that are changing the world of tech recruitment?
#17Hi, hackerrank founder here. Happy to answer any questions.
Could you give any insight into how many companies are creating their own questions versus using your pre-loaded ones?
Re: Ask HN: Do you know startups that are changing the world of tech recruitment?
#18I started a project similar to talentbin.com: scraping Github, StackOverflow, and about two dozen other sites to compile searchable developer profiles. Figuring out when a Github and StackOverflow profile belonged to the same person was a pretty fun challenge. Eventually I abandoned it though, because it felt like I was just enabling keyword-based recruiter spam. Selling it to people made me feel bad instead of good.
Good on you for being so altruistic. Do you think there's any way to leverage that while making it desirable for the developers? Imagine you have great offers that you know would be valuable to the people you found. Would it be spam to share it?
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#19Doesn't look scalable for a startup but I'd give my pinky (OK, maybe just a month's salary) for having a decent tech recruiter work for me (developer open to new opportunities), as in sparing me of the 90% of BS that I usually go through when dealing with recruiters/companies.
Why do you think it's not scalable? Think there always has to be a level of attention on an individual level?
What BS are you referring to btw? The usual, "This guy knows Java. He'll probably interested in this Javascript position!"?
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#20Workable? Not world-changing but certainly takes some of the "urgherhergasdasd" out of it.
:) as long as it takes that out of it! What would make it world-changing for you?
Is that the only option you've considered?