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Re: Sunsetting Hire

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Post by roguecoder »

rvz wrote: post #15

While this is splendid news of another fallen Google product, I'm afraid this time it is different. Google has a similar alternative to outgrow and to completely replace Hire which is called Byteboard [0]. [0] https://byteboard.dev/

That only appears to cover engineering hiring, whereas Google Hire was a general ATS. Byteboard definitely isn't a replacement yet, and it isn't clear that it aspires to be one.

Re: Sunsetting Hire

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Post by roguecoder »

cj wrote: post #23
aeternum wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use Lever and have been pretty happy with it. Easy to use and good integrations.

We used Lever too. Until the renewal price came. $10,000+ doesn’t make any sense if only planning to hire a handful of people / yr

That was the biggest advantage of Google Hire: it was actually affordable as a startup.

Re: Sunsetting Hire

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Post by sduff »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #24
xvector wrote: post #2

Nothing new under the sunset. https://gcemetery.co

Use https://killedbygoogle.com/ ! It's open source, and writes savage tweets. It also answers a question I usually have to ask about shut down Google products: What was it in the first place? Someone already has a PR to add Hire: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/567

Yep, that was me. I closed the PR before ready, but Cody quickly sorted it out.

Re: Sunsetting Hire

#36

Post by kbumsik »

rvz wrote: post #15

While this is splendid news of another fallen Google product, I'm afraid this time it is different. Google has a similar alternative to outgrow and to completely replace Hire which is called Byteboard [0]. [0] https://byteboard.dev/

> I'm afraid this time it is different.

Exactly the same. Google often shuts down a service in favor of alternatives it already have, like Hangouts=>Duo and Inbox=>GMail.

Re: Sunsetting Hire

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Post by xg15 »

traek wrote: post #25

This makes sense, Hire was born out of Bebop (founded by Diane Greene, former VMware founder/CEO). Google acquihired Bebop to get Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud (which is why this product was lumped under their cloud division), but she left Google earlier this year. No reason for Google to keep it running now.

So I guess we now passed the aqui-hire (acquire a company you're not interested in to get the people you want) and arrived at the prod-hire: Build a product you're not interested in to acquire a company you're not interested in to get the people you want.

Re: Sunsetting Hire

#39

Post by markmark »

aeternum wrote: post #5

Companies are going to avoid new Google offerings given this behavior. They marketed Hire by Google hard. Glad we didn't sign up and waste integration effort on this.

Are going to? They already are. I will no longer consider a Google product for work purposes. Even for big stuff they are committed to like their cloud offering there is no confidence that individual features within it they you rely on won't get killed off.

Re: Sunsetting Hire

#40

Post by codyogden »

sduff wrote: post #35
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use https://killedbygoogle.com/ ! It's open source, and writes savage tweets. It also answers a question I usually have to ask about shut down Google products: What was it in the first place? Someone already has a PR to add Hire: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/567

Yep, that was me. I closed the PR before ready, but Cody quickly sorted it out.

Cheers. :) Thanks for the PR!
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