Nice. And renders on a few browsers I tried. I'm always surprised with how many people consider themselves professional web devs, but can't bother to get IE to work properly.
Loren wants to work at Airbnb
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Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#12Fantastic stuff. Best of luck to you!
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#13Inspired and motivated by some fantastic advice from the HN community, I’ve decided to pursue a frontend engineering position at Airbnb. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, but I love what they’re doing and could see myself working as a part of the team. In fact, Airbnb is one of the only companies I’ve really felt the urge to work with. In addition to submitting a resume and cover letter, I thought it would be fun to put…
Hire this man.
Yep. This is a no brainer.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#14I just emailed the founders. I expect they'll contact you soon.
I assume you won't be willing to but... any chance you'd shed light on how you worded your email, ranging from just a link to "you have to hire.."?
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#15See, now, this is great stuff. How do you not hire this guy? A near-perfect example of the form: * It's gorgeous * It's simple * It's precisely targeted and relevant My only critique is that he didn't find a way to work Pocket into it; the story about his six-year-old sister using it is a winner. Anyone want to put odds on how long Loren stays on the market? I give it a week. :)
Your points are all true and he may make a great web designer. As for front-end engineer position there is a room for improvement.
Luckily it's not me hiring so all the best to Loren.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#16I tried getting a meeting with him several times back when I was still a student at UIUC, I read how he launched a t-shirt web site and made some money from it, and it seems every response I got was: "sorry man, I didn't get any sleep last night, I was busy working on something. Can we try again next week?" Seems like a hustler.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#17So, while this is novel and all, it seems to me that these "resume 2.0" applications indicate a real failure of systems like "jobvite" or whatever backend air bnb is using to simplify their hiring decisions.
On HN we've been seeing a bunch of these hyper-targeted reverse resumes in the past year because I suspect people have gotten tired of submitting waves of resumes and hearing nothing back within a reasonable timeframe from companies that advertise open positions on their websites but never, for whatever reason, respond.
What i'm seeing here, is that traditional recruiting practices are failing in some way because priority is achieved by a) making it to the hn frontpage which b) gets pg to vouch for you. Which is basically no better (or efficient) than the traditional method of hiring folks that you've networked with via friends/school/etc or what have you.
I understand that historically those online resume systems are a real losing proposition for applicants, but this suggests that they're more like a black hole rather than a mail slot.
Again, this is a critique of these automated systems which seem to be visibly failing because people are going out of their way to subvert them in order to achieve any success.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#18See, now, this is great stuff. How do you not hire this guy? A near-perfect example of the form: * It's gorgeous * It's simple * It's precisely targeted and relevant My only critique is that he didn't find a way to work Pocket into it; the story about his six-year-old sister using it is a winner. Anyone want to put odds on how long Loren stays on the market? I give it a week. :)
Your points are all true and he may make a great web designer. As for front-end engineer position there is a room for improvement. Luckily it's not me hiring so all the best to Loren.
Agreed, there's always room for improvement :) Any specifics come to mind?
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#19I just emailed the founders. I expect they'll contact you soon.
I assume you won't be willing to but... any chance you'd shed light on how you worded your email, ranging from just a link to "you have to hire.."?
I expect they'll contact you soon.
I don't think so. He mentioned that he "expects" that they contact him soon, but he is not even sure they'll do. It's good in case the founders missed the post.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#20Loren, that's a very nice resume page. But I think it's missing something, which is quite important: Your portfolio.
Collect some of your best work, and create a slider in one of your clouds. If you have also worked in some companies in the past mention it. Stackoverflow, Github, Dribble... links are also useful.
hint: Change the white up arrow color, so that it contrast well with the background. You can detect this with scrolling and assign colors. This will show that you put lot of attention to small details ;)