I wish we lived in a world where no one has to vouch; trustless. I know - not possible right? But in my opinion it's an instant fix to racial, sex, any other type of discrimination isn't it. It would close the gender pay gap. It would close systemic racism. So tell me why is it so impossible? Well I know some challenges. Eg a standardized test is impossible. I'd love to start a company that offers blond interviews somehow. Virtual Avatars?
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#52Usually when someone asks me for a recommendation, I ask them what kind of skills they are looking for and their preferred contact info, and then if I have a friend who might be interested I send my friend the contact info of the person hiring. So maybe you might want to consider flipping your process. Make it so I can see what skills the companies are looking for and then make it easy to send a message to my friend…
Interesting. So instead of recommending your friends, you would be recommending best-suited companies to your friends? I have seen a few of my friends do that when they are helping someone with a job switch.
I do exactly this. I get pings from time to time for a position that is a good fit for one of my friends, but does not interest me personally.
I'm far enough in my career that I can be picky and I don't mind the job search taking 3-6 months of mostly passive search.
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#53More garbage
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#54You should really add a FAQ section on the website. Quite a few people on in the comments here are asking the same questions.
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#55What steps do you take to prevent bias or systemic discrimination (intentional or not) from impacting recommendations?
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#56I like this idea. But does it still just funnel people into the "1hr Leetcode interview + day long whiteboard session" style hiring process?
This is the problem I have with things like Triplebyte et. al. You make me jump through all of these hoops that are supposed to "prequalify" me for a position, and yet I'm then just dumped into the exact same process as if I'd submitted my resume to a job posting.
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#57You should really add a FAQ section on the website. Quite a few people on in the comments here are asking the same questions.
Yes, sure realised that. Thank you for the suggestion, will add one soon.
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#58When 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 ga…
Very legit point! That is a concern that some of our prospective users do share. What they do in that case is vouch for ones who they know are looking out or can benefit from vouching (eg. folks who struggle at DS/algo interviews etc). On the "no recruiter mails", I just realised that it might be confusing. What I meant that just because you vouch for someone, it doesn't mean that they will get bombarded with spammy…
Congratulations on the launch!
A headsup in case you are not using official LinkedIn API, LinkedIn is nuclear on browser extensions operating on its site and would even ban the users using the extension[1]. They actively scan for browser extensions and regularly update their blacklist.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/56347/prohibit...
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#59I am not sure If I get it right but hiring based on the social media recommendation model (likes/upvotes/recommend) will always amplify the same group of people who are well connected and have good networking skills. I am interested to know how newcomers will be able to get in.
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#60When 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 ga…
The recruitment industry has always had parallels to dating. We have two parties who don't want their time wasted, but want to get together as quickly as possible if it's a good match, while maintaining their dignity and their privacy. The industry is permanently grappling with ways to make this process scalable. The road is littered with the dead hulks of companies that felt like they had cracked the code. Yet still…
This is awesome! There are so many gems here that even if pick up 50% of it and deliver on it, we would be golden.
This is probably the most nuanced advise I have received on the sector/our approach and I would have spoken to 100+ VCs and other people doing recruitment.
HN is great