I'd subscribe (as a company) if you didn't have the 10k yearly fees. I view recruiting as point in time events (we are a startup) rather than a continuous process.
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#22I'd subscribe (as a company) if you didn't have the 10k yearly fees. I view recruiting as point in time events (we are a startup) rather than a continuous process.
We also have a different plan where it's completely success-based. You pay only if you hire any of our vouched engineers. We charge 15% of annual base salary in that case though.
Re: Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers
#23How do you seed & grow the network? How do you identify and vet the engineers on whose recommendations you rely?
I.e. Good ole boy's club.
Yeah. That does happen to be an inherent problem with a recommendation/referral based system. We do see that people recommend engineers very similar to them in profile/demographic. We try to solve it by seeding with a diverse base of scouts.
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#24Regardless of how wonderful this product may, or may not, be:
"Install chrome extension to APPLY"
No thanks.
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#25Regardless of how wonderful this product may, or may not, be: "Install chrome extension to APPLY" No thanks.
Sorry about that. I understand that it's a big friction point. We would be piloting a web app as well soon to solve for that :)
Re: Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers
#26I'd subscribe (as a company) if you didn't have the 10k yearly fees. I view recruiting as point in time events (we are a startup) rather than a continuous process.
We also have a different plan where it's completely success-based. You pay only if you hire any of our vouched engineers. We charge 15% of annual base salary in that case though.
Thanks!
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#27Which geographical regions is this open to? I am in Canada, but got "It's great to see you here but unfortunately we are just not in your geographical region yet."
Can you check now? It should be available. We do have 1 canadian company who is hiring for engineers in both US and Canada. We had not opened it till now but have just done that.
Nope, it did not work. Will try again at home through.
Re: Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers
#28Anyone else unable to get the extension to load? I can install it, when I click on in on LinkedIn, I just see a white drawer. No content loads. Tried disabling ad block as well.
Re: Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers
#29Anyone else unable to get the extension to load? I can install it, when I click on in on LinkedIn, I just see a white drawer. No content loads. Tried disabling ad block as well.
Sorry for the bad experience, the extension needs 3rd party cookies to be enabled in chrome.. You can go to chrome's settings and select either "allow all cookies" or "block 3rd party cookies in incognito" and it should start working normally
Re: Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers
#30When I "vouch" for a friend, what happens on the friend's side? Am I opting them in to getting email(s) from weekday?
If so, that seems slightly odd that I'm going through my top 10 friends on linked-in, vouching for them so that they are now going to get some a cold email(s), but I have no insight if those 10 people are looking for jobs and want this email at all. I'm pretty much saying to my friends "Hey, I just gave your info to this random company so hopefully I'll make some money off you." (And yes, it is true that I'm "helping" them get a job, but the people I'd vouch for don't need help, in this market they can get a job very quickly)
I will admit that some aspects of what I mention above are true in the "screen-share call" example you gave above, BUT it's the fact that the screen-share alternative is clunky/painful which makes it more socially acceptable. The automation/scale of your new approach starts to feel more spammy.
When you say "No recruiter mails" on your website, what does that mean exactly? Who is the subject of that sentence and who is the object? Subject: weekday recruiter? in-house recruiters at tech companies? contingency recruiters? Object: me the voucher? the person I'm vouching for?
Note: I'm not trying to be mean or negative, I'm just trying to understand the full feedback loop, so I can be empathetic to all parties, especially my friends. :)