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Parent said Petersen was "spewing BS... to protect his money", I suppose that may not quite be shilling, it's more being deceptive and greedy/crass? I am happy to accept clearer wording if you've got any ideas.
It’s having an opinion. An opinion that you just disagree with. We don’t need accusations of astroturfing based on a single comment.
I used to work for UPS and tried to understand Flexport business model, but could not find any value that Flexport bringing to the table. Can someone explain to me what value Flexport is bringing ?
Completely different part of the stack. UPS delivers the end product from a warehouse to the customer's house. But first the company selling that product had to get thousands of units of the product from the manufacturing facility to its warehouse. Before that they had to get all of the components or raw materials for that product to the manufacturing facility. Many of those components would have been manufactured by…
Until recently UPS had freight business as well, from what I know, it wasn't doing so well and they sold it to another company. UPS has massive supply chain business, they can deliver from manufacturer to the end user, from what I know, it roughly 30% of their business. And if you $big$ enough, they can manage all your inventory and manage entire logistics needs.
Flexport posts a lot of "Flexport is hiring" ads on HN. Here are my anecdotal experiences. I was contacted by a very sharp recruiter from within the company a year ago. She said they weren't actually looking for backend developers (senior or not). Why she contacted me given my senior backend developer resume is beyond me. I told her I had a previous lengthy, and ultimately confusing and unpleasant experience with Fle…
I’ve been curious why they are constantly advertising on HN, it doesn’t seem logical to need that many posts. Is the hiring process bad? Is the turn over that high? The constant advertising gives a bad impression. If they are just expanding at a good clip, it seems there are better ways.
We’ve got a lot of work to do, and HN has good people.
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Spewing BS doesn't in this context seem to imply either lying or shilling for somebody else. It's a devaluing the opinion of no taxing the rich, and being disappointed at the expression of that opinion.
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>And it seems that root cause is ships bring more containers than they take with them. No, that's not the root cause. The root cause seems to be a combination of cascading events that causes a deathspiral: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p... "ships bring more containers than they take with them" is a symptom, not a cause. Mandating "ships to take an amount of empties" doesn't really fix th…
The last (upward) arrow in the chart does not make sense. Why would people buy more goods: as prices go up, they can buy less and less goods.
Working at a startup that focuses on automating the underwriting process for freight factoring has been an incredible insight during the supply chain crisis of 2021. Something that's also interesting is the data that companies like Flexport have to work with. Freight contracts and lending adjacent to these industries are a treasure trove of early indicators of economic ups and downs for the US economy.
Flexport posts a lot of "Flexport is hiring" ads on HN. Here are my anecdotal experiences. I was contacted by a very sharp recruiter from within the company a year ago. She said they weren't actually looking for backend developers (senior or not). Why she contacted me given my senior backend developer resume is beyond me. I told her I had a previous lengthy, and ultimately confusing and unpleasant experience with Fle…
I don't know anything about Flexport, I know about hiring tech that perhaps helps you to understand what goes behind such processes.
Hiring tech usually can be grouped in 4/5 buckets. Applicant Tracking Systems(ATS) /Workflow tools, Sourcing, Screening / Selection , Offer / Negotiation and Finally on-boarding. In each category depending on type of hire(Full Time/Contract), departments/skills(tech/sales/finance etc), and geographic locations(U.S./Europe/Mexico etc) you could end needing dozens of tools.
It is not unusual for a startup not have tools to manage their workflows yet, the hiring processes evolve a lot in early stage companies, they insource/outsource and shift all the time, each dept or new VP brings theirs own ideas with little standardization etc. Few startups invest in an ATS ( not just buy actually put effort to deploy) at Workflow tools like ATSes are systems of records designed for compliance and to help the recruiter not the candidate. That means most recruiters have little incentive to update the records of a rejected candidate into the system, they are only measured by offers made/ joined etc, once you are rejected a typical recruiter will loose interest fast, few would even let you know that properly, even fewer would know why you were rejected and update the system ( if it exists at all) .
Hiring managers are also guilty, post an interview rarely do they give comments( to the recruiter after the interview) even if they do, it is even less likely that those can be be shared to a candidate.
Also finally even for companies working on solving hiring problems, it is not easy to solve their own hiring process issues. It is rare for one company to be building all the tools needed by a company to hire. i.e. HackerRank/Codility may build great coding tools, but they still need to use ATS or sourcing tools in their hiring processes, and that can mean their processes are also not perfect and have similar problems.
Flexport posts a lot of "Flexport is hiring" ads on HN. Here are my anecdotal experiences. I was contacted by a very sharp recruiter from within the company a year ago. She said they weren't actually looking for backend developers (senior or not). Why she contacted me given my senior backend developer resume is beyond me. I told her I had a previous lengthy, and ultimately confusing and unpleasant experience with Fle…
I’ve been curious why they are constantly advertising on HN, it doesn’t seem logical to need that many posts. Is the hiring process bad? Is the turn over that high? The constant advertising gives a bad impression. If they are just expanding at a good clip, it seems there are better ways.
[1] Technically paid with the equity companies give YC I suppose