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Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by DINKDINK »

throwaway59511 wrote: post #18

Throwaway to share my experience with them: I applied in mid-2014 to a software eng position based on encouragement from a recruiter. I went to two onsites with five people in total, each of which passed me to the next round. They had me come in for a third onsite(!) to meet with CEO James Beriker and some head of engineering. I had admitted to being let go for underperformance to the position I held two jobs ago (wa…

>gotten a total 35% raise since starting

Relatively meaningless percentage if you don't state over what time period. One could ballpark the minimum %/time.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by chris_wot »

hackinthebochs wrote: post #76
yeukhon wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another reason I wouldn't not tell the truth is maybe the interviewer knows my ex-colleagues.

It's not about lying, but constructing a narrative that paints the facts in a favorable light. Just saying you were fired for underperforming gives you no room to construct a less negative narrative.

That's what politicians do.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by kriro »

caminante wrote: post #68
JoblessWonder wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was in my early-mid twenties and trying to make the internal jump from top-tier Help Desk to SysAdmin I had a Director who did this. The earlier interviews were fine. I was fairly green, but I seemed to get the basics of the position, was very eager to learn, and had the recommendation of my (large) department's management up to VP. They asked me technical questions which I did pretty well on. Then the Directo…

Staying calm and speaking during confrontations is a learnable skill. I humbly recommend reading the book Crucial Conversations, if you haven't read it, then practicing the techniques. I tell my "underlings" to breathe (with their diaphragm), to take their time, and to carry their voice. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-S...

Good book recommendation but my personal reaction if I ever encountered this during an interview would simply be standing up and excusing myself due to the lack of "cultural fit". Sure sometimes you need a job but compromising during job interviews is a pretty bad thing imo. You'll spend a good chunk of your time at a place, just walk if it smells funny.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by mgkimsal »

vacri wrote: post #73
therealgimli wrote: post #34

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there's an interviewing technique among senior execs to take on an aggressive, rude tone to interviewees to "see how they respond under pressure." One way to spot it is if they respond in a contrary way to everything and generally try to pick on you to find chinks in your armor. the first time I experienced it I was pretty shaken up. either that or the person you spoke with is just an asshole.

This always threw me in interviews. I've worked in retail, as a medical tech with patient interaction, as phone support, as teaching assistants... and I'm able to get a reasonable level of rapport going. So to go to an interview where we build up some rapport and then the interviewer just turns suddenly hostile, that really throws me, because people just don't do that in the real world. I know better by now because I…

> because people just don't do that in the real world

well, they do, but basically only in crappy interview situations.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by qadevleadgrunt »

shubhamjain wrote: post #74
qadevleadgrunt wrote: post #69

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Maybe I'm mistaken, but the name rings a bell from a scraper company I worked at some 10 years ago (I left that company in 2008). Our scraper back then was light years ahead of any others, both in regards to performance (think checkpointing of program state) + accuracy of parsing and JS execution (back then the target goal was a complete emulation of IE6+, sans ActiveX (exception being various host objects such as XM…

> Our scraper back then was light years ahead of any others, both in regards to performance (think checkpointing of program state) + accuracy of parsing and JS execution (back then the target goal was a complete emulation of IE6+, sans ActiveX (exception being various host objects such as XMLHttpRequest)) If you don't mind, can you tell me the name of the software? I was very much into scraping business myself around…

Software was Kapow RoboSuite, it's since been going through a few acquisitions and can now be found at http://www.kofax.com/data-integration-extraction. The web site really doesnt tell a great story of the technical details, best thing is probably http://www.kofax.com/~/media/Files/Kofax/Datasheets/kapow/ds...

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by mathattack »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #57
mathattack wrote: post #40

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There is an enormous irony in a Recruiting SaaS company being so bad at recruiting.

It epitomizes the industry.

In a sense it hits all industries. Accenture would put in HR and ERP systems for companies all across the world, but their own were notoriously bad. Microsoft was infamous for patchwork internal IT. Investment banks are notorious for weak internal financial controls. We've all seen doctors who smoke or abuse drugs.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by mathattack »

anexprogrammer wrote: post #75
mathattack wrote: post #54

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The purchase was 6+ years ago, and the deadwood is still there?

Deadwood manages to stay, unnoticed by management, for decades. Most companies of a size has plenty, the body-shops (EDS etc) seem to consist of mainly deadwood.

True - if the deadwood can still be billed out, it lasts.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by mathattack »

bcantrill wrote: post #58
mathattack wrote: post #54

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The purchase was 6+ years ago, and the deadwood is still there?

Absolutely! It is, after all, deadwood -- and given that it's broadly resistant to Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation, it will likely be there for quite some time to come...

What do you mean by "Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation"?

And is it that Oracle has such marketplace strength that it can get away with holding the deadwood? I had heard that Oracle was a very competitive place.

Re: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

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Post by mathattack »

JoblessWonder wrote: post #59
therealgimli wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there's an interviewing technique among senior execs to take on an aggressive, rude tone to interviewees to "see how they respond under pressure." One way to spot it is if they respond in a contrary way to everything and generally try to pick on you to find chinks in your armor. the first time I experienced it I was pretty shaken up. either that or the person you spoke with is just an asshole.

When I was in my early-mid twenties and trying to make the internal jump from top-tier Help Desk to SysAdmin I had a Director who did this. The earlier interviews were fine. I was fairly green, but I seemed to get the basics of the position, was very eager to learn, and had the recommendation of my (large) department's management up to VP. They asked me technical questions which I did pretty well on. Then the Directo…

It seems pretty bad to do this on an internal transfer.
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