Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers
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#2This is really solid advise for pre-interview hiring. If you are hiring or will ever be hiring, read it. Aside from some word choice, there is only one thing I (and the author!) am not sold on:
> The Who book recommends selling this as some kind of cool, Disney-styled Fast Pass, where people can go through a step or two of your funnel and get advance notice of new listings, a shorter trip through the process, etc
This is in reference to always interviewing even when not hiring so you have a warm funnel. You are interviewing real people with real feelings and real obligations. Be very upfront with them if this is a warm-funnel interview and not a potential soon-to-be job offer. One of my worst interview experiences was after scoring at the 98th percentile of some organization's test, I was told via writing that they are not hiring now, but look forward to reaching out when a position opens up. Yeah, no thanks, I'm trying to be employed like immediately.
Side note: I really like the superscript functionality in the post.
Re: Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers
#3This is really solid advise for pre-interview hiring. If you are hiring or will ever be hiring, read it. Aside from some word choice, there is only one thing I (and the author!) am not sold on: > The Who book recommends selling this as some kind of cool, Disney-styled Fast Pass, where people can go through a step or two of your funnel and get advance notice of new listings, a shorter trip through the process, etc Thi…
A few of the things are sort of illegal in EU, esp. recording without notice.
Holding hiring databases is problematic too due to GDPR.
Re: Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers
#4This is really solid advise for pre-interview hiring. If you are hiring or will ever be hiring, read it. Aside from some word choice, there is only one thing I (and the author!) am not sold on: > The Who book recommends selling this as some kind of cool, Disney-styled Fast Pass, where people can go through a step or two of your funnel and get advance notice of new listings, a shorter trip through the process, etc Thi…
A few of the things are sort of illegal in EU, esp. recording without notice. Holding hiring databases is problematic too due to GDPR.
I missed the recording part, and, yeah, gdpr for sure.
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#5I was a bit irritated by the section about employees not doing outreach well enough.
Who does hiring reflect well upon? I’m not bothering people in my network so you can look like an effective recruiter to your boss. Maybe employees don’t try because you don’t give them a reason to, and they have incentives in the other direction, like not being the guy in the friend group that’s always talking about how awesome their company is. When in reality, our industry is made up of people hopping between companies so they are more similar than dissimilar.
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#6> FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Google.
LinkedIn? Was that a tongue in cheek joke that I've missed,
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#7I was a bit irritated by the section about employees not doing outreach well enough. Who does hiring reflect well upon? I’m not bothering people in my network so you can look like an effective recruiter to your boss. Maybe employees don’t try because you don’t give them a reason to, and they have incentives in the other direction, like not being the guy in the friend group that’s always talking about how awesome thei…
>always talking about how awesome their company is.
no need for "always talking", or pretty much talking at all - a new over-the-top-packaged Model X and the second home in Los Gatos do all the "outreach", and the casual mentioning of 500K+ total comp and an FB 600K+ offer not moving you because it is much more heavier on stock than your current comp is all the talking needed to easily convince me that my friend's company is awesome (even though i had thought that it is a pretty crappy one until i learned of the money they pay, and they happen to be more awesome even than Google who gave me pretty low offer ) and to make me sorry for failing to get into such an awesome company :).
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#8Some say hiring is as complex as life itself
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#9The one absolutely, infuriating thing about jobs that will cause me to throw keyboards through windows:
A 'requirement' or a 'minimum' must be exactly that.
If they are negotiable, they aren't a requirement or minimum.
GET THIS RIGHT, GODDAMNIT. THOSE WORDS HAVE DEFINITIONS FOR A REASON.
If you can't come up with any, then chances are they aren't actually required! And if you don't actually have any, you don't have to write those words in the job description! Fucking easy, right?
This helps everyone. I don't waste time applying for jobs where I don't meet the requirements, and you don't waste time rejecting me for the same reason.
The fact that this isn't followed is why we have dumb job-seeker rules like "just apply even if you don't meet those requirements". It's throwing common sense out along with the keyboards. And yes, fuck recruiting companies that tell you to do this, too.
Re: Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers
#10The one absolutely, infuriating thing about jobs that will cause me to throw keyboards through windows: A 'requirement' or a 'minimum' must be exactly that. If they are negotiable, they aren't a requirement or minimum. GET THIS RIGHT, GODDAMNIT. THOSE WORDS HAVE DEFINITIONS FOR A REASON. If you can't come up with any, then chances are they aren't actually required! And if you don't actually have any, you don't have t…
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