How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
shane.engineer
How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
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Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#2It's a high risk method. But it's much more effective than traditional job applications. So if you weigh the time spent (10-20 hours building custom thing for company) vs spending 10 hours filling out 30 applications, I would guess this is a better approach.
It's also a method described in "guerrilla marketing for job hunters". There's others in the book if you're looking for a little lower effort non-traditional methods.
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#3Thanks for sharing. I agree with doing the unconventional, and I think it comes down to making a very clear case to the founders that you can add value off the bat when joining the company. Given the limited time and resources, it's hard for the company to pass on hustlers who can get shit done right away.
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#4Hug of death. Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Dc-koH...
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#5Great approach. I would hire someone like this. You're gonna be a legend the day you join. Probably easier to be noticed/hired this way with smaller companies.
Even if you don't get hired, you've learned something new and produced something cool which you can show in your next interview, and only lost a couple of days of your time.
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#6Why the goal is a startup? I don't undertand the obsesion of being part of something so fragil.
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#7I am curious as how this .engineer TLD plans to keep it's doors open if it only hosts a few websites?
What happens if .engineer can't pay the bills?
Why would anyone register such a terrible TLD?
Engineers have poor taste.
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#8It's a high risk method. But it's much more effective than traditional job applications. So if you weigh the time spent (10-20 hours building custom thing for company) vs spending 10 hours filling out 30 applications, I would guess this is a better approach. It's also a method described in "guerrilla marketing for job hunters". There's others in the book if you're looking for a little lower effort non-traditional met…
I put a much higher priority on the people I work with. So I would add to that risk the scenario where I get the job but it turns out to be a bunch of bros. Maybe there was some public insight to the kind of people this person would be joining to mitigate that risk.
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#9Why the goal is a startup? I don't undertand the obsesion of being part of something so fragil.
For one thing, it's probably much harder for these types of moves to make an impact when your stereotypical HR drone is handling incoming resumes -- hell, I can practically see them filing the cover letter in the standard way, the resume in the standard way, and the random hunk of metal in the standard way (garbage).
Re: How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
#10This boils down to being able to show the potential employer than you can be of immediate, tangible value to the company, which should be the main goal of anyone looking for work. A resume is one way to do this (albeit not great), building a valuable, relevant prototype is another. There are many alternatives along that continuum.
But really, are talented, creative software people really having trouble finding work?