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We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

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Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

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Post by keithnz »

is this a problem just in areas with the big trendy companies?

I've always liked working at smaller companies as it always feel like what you do is more significant and a lot more diverse. I know other smaller companies < 30ish people and they tend to like broader experience and people who can get stuff done. School background counts for little.

Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

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Post by santialbo »

I´ve recently been in charge of hiring a lot of people and have probably done +100 interviews in the last year.

I generally don´t mind the stack/language candidates have been using but I always value very highly that they have used different stacks and languages during their whole carrer. When I interview 5+ years .NET developers who haven't used another language, not even in their spare time, the result is usually a rejection. Since the time I can spend on interviews is limited I need to discard candidates based on signals, even if that means discarding good candidates.

Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

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Post by vog »

It's strange that this article does not appear in the RSS/Atom feed:

https://danluu.com/atom.xml

Is that feed broken?

I was quite surprised finding this via my secondary news sources (HN, etc.) rather than my primary news sources (RSS/Atom feeds of blogs I follow).

Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

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Post by grabcocque »

I always forget how much the enlightened community of Hacker News loves to downvote comments drawing attention to the heavily young white privileged male-centric hiring policies of many tech companies.

Honestly, you'd think I'd learn, that this community does not like to be reminded quite how regressive our gender, class and racial politics looks to the outside world.

Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

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Post by dx034 »

arethuza wrote: post #8
orf wrote: post #3

> We like to think that we’re different from all those industries that judge people based on appearance, but we do the same thing, only instead of saying that people are a bad fit because they don’t wear ties, we say they’re a bad fit because they do, and instead of saying people aren’t smart enough because they don’t have the right pedigree… wait, that’s exactly the same. This is a great quote and an interesting poi…

"I fear I might if they continued to wear something overly formal at work" Why would you be bothered about what someone wears at work - formal or informal?

Can be important for anyone with client contact. Even if you don't care what people wear, external clients will react differently depending on what you wear. It could be that you specifically don't want to wear suit to give the impression that you're a dynamic start-up but in the end clothing always matters.
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