Whether you are trendy or not, what counts is your expertise in your niche. You just have to prove your worth and you are good to go.
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)
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience there are three types. Note: We don't have GPA, but some companies look at study grades (some only masters, others bachelors grades) and some even go further back to high school/middle school which would be sort of GPA. The types I've met (companies/recruiters alike): 1) Don't care, look at what you think you can do and your motivation for that assessment. They usually also give some form of shorter…
> Look at GPA/High/middle/etc school grades Really? There is a possibility that this is my lack of industry experience talking, but I find the idea that a company looks at high school grades very difficult to believe. As for middle school... I would seriously wonder about the basic competence (and sanity) of someone who asked me about middle school grades.
No I have never heard of a company asking for grades below college. And after a few jobs plenty of people leave their GPA off their resume completely.
This is in the US. From OP's comment history they are somewhere in Europe.
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#143> 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…
> and instead of saying people aren’t smart enough because they don’t have the right pedigree… wait, that’s exactly the same. Does this still happen?
Of course, I still see job postings requiring a "CS degree from a top school."
I think it's great they come right out and admit that they're a bunch of elitist douche-bags so I don't even bother applying. Could you imagine working at such a place with a degree from a :shudder: public university?
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#144Pattern matching has problems but it also evolved because other signals are even weaker, I'd like to see an analysis centered around this idea
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#145Does anyone else find full-width text hard to read? I had to actually turn my head. Instantly closed the page.
It is truly funny how first people want 4k monitors but when an application actually uses the given size at full, they cry about "oh, it is too wide", and we end up with disgusting design of web pages with ultra-narrow column of content and wide empty (or ads-filled) columns by both sides.
Do you run your IDE with one file 4k fullscreen?
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also in the UK, and I would definitely not be surprised to see candidates show up with suits at places where that’s obviously not required. No one cares. “Pedigree” that’s another question. I did show up in a tailored three-piece suit with a tie and pocket for my interview at Deliveroo (a notorious streetwear influencer now). There was an eyebrow justifiably raised (by a guy in a t-shirt who, I learned afterwards, wa…
Dude, were your interviewing as a software developer or as a delivery man? For the former, I'd rock up in a suit and a bike helmet, but only if I really did ride my bike to the interview. As it was, I interviewed for Google in a suit (no helmet, I took a bus), even though the instructions recommended against it. This was in Switzerland; and as far as I can tell, nobody even noticed, let alone cared, what I was wearin…
Data scientist, but Deliveroo is big on empathy and you are meant to ride (handle deliveries, but also understand the issues with riding a bicycle or a moped in a big city: rain, parking, etc.)
I’d say half the candidates I interviewed (I was far down the pipeline) had done deliveries and all had learnt something important doing it. The key one was: it’s a physically challenging job.
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#147This is an older piece but it's really timeless.
I have some experience because my first job programming was at a small nonprofit, on a tiny team, doing .NET software, and during the job search when I sought to move on there were a lot of backhanded complements about how they didn't expect me to do that well on their evaluations.
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#148What strikes me about this is how little weight recruiters put on referrals from current employees. I would have thought that being recommended by an internal employee would get you an initial interview at the very least. Surely a trusted employee’s recommendation is more reliable than whatever random sift the recruiters have. Does anyone with experience of recruitment have any stats on how successful referred applic…
Depends on many things.
Is the employee that referred you valued at the company?
Did the employee refer bad prospects in the past?
How much do they need to fill the position?
I saw a few problematic employees that always referred their friends who never got even a call.
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s funny you use Renaissance as an example. They won’t give me the time of day because they “don’t hire people from finance”. Which is just as much of a bullshit reason as the ones from the start of the article.
The reason 'not to hire people from finance' - is that it's generally not needed at most very early stage companies.
I assume he meant fintech and not accounting
Re: We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
#150Are there not plenty of companies that hire only older, more experienced people? Such as government entities and large corporations? Seems like we always hear about the pro-youth companies. Perhaps its only silicon valley.