Tech recruitment: how not to do it • Hacker News Board

Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by netaustin » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 5:37 AM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #5

Sketchy in a lot of ways. His LinkedIn profile has stars around the name http://www.linkedin.com/in/opensourcestaffing He also has every state in the nation listed twice (postal code + full state name). SEO bait I guess. It seems surprising to me that some of the fairly big companies listed on their website (eBay, Disney Internet Group, Rapleaf, Shopzilla) would engage with someone so visibly awful. http://open-sourc…

Fairly big companies often have surprisingly minimal filters for "visibly awful." Passing due diligence is easy when the process does not include common sense, and individual managers are likely to have misaligned incentives.

Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by rglullis » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:04 AM UTC

autarch wrote: post #9

Beau has been around a long time. I remember him posting jobs to the jobs.perl.org site and perl jobs list years ago (back in 2001). We had to ban him for similarly bad behavior. I'm amazed he's still around.

hum, just last week he was trying to create a page on job4dev to post "listings" with no information whatsoever about any of the actual companies that were hiring. Usually our moderation system is enough to stop recruiters to add vacuous pages to the wiki. But he went ahead and start spamming the comment pages anyway.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be possible to add to job4dev a service that would turn recruiters into a value-add into the recruiting space. But that kind of thing just goes to show that they just want to work as middlemen and really need to be cut out.

Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:29 AM UTC

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Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by potatolicious » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:37 AM UTC

roneil wrote: post #8

I'm glad Gould got called out on this; he probably just lost himself a lot of future business by being so cocky.

Called out on Hacker News and similarly hacker-y circles... that's not exactly the "$50K in NYC" demographic.

Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:44 AM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #10

autarch wrote: post #9

Beau has been around a long time. I remember him posting jobs to the jobs.perl.org site and perl jobs list years ago (back in 2001). We had to ban him for similarly bad behavior. I'm amazed he's still around.

That's impressive because he sounds like he's 14. "Fags ... suck dick". Real fucking creative Beau.

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Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:46 AM UTC

rglullis wrote: post #12

autarch wrote: post #9

Beau has been around a long time. I remember him posting jobs to the jobs.perl.org site and perl jobs list years ago (back in 2001). We had to ban him for similarly bad behavior. I'm amazed he's still around.

hum, just last week he was trying to create a page on job4dev to post "listings" with no information whatsoever about any of the actual companies that were hiring. Usually our moderation system is enough to stop recruiters to add vacuous pages to the wiki. But he went ahead and start spamming the comment pages anyway. Sometimes I wonder if it would be possible to add to job4dev a service that would turn recruiters in…

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Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by Steer » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:50 AM UTC

My guess is that someone has already taken matters into his/her own hands, check out his blog (redirected to from Beau's domain mentioned in the post):

http://opensourcestaffing.wordpress.com/

The latest post is (probably) not of his own doing I would say.

Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:55 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #16

rglullis wrote: post #12

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hum, just last week he was trying to create a page on job4dev to post "listings" with no information whatsoever about any of the actual companies that were hiring. Usually our moderation system is enough to stop recruiters to add vacuous pages to the wiki. But he went ahead and start spamming the comment pages anyway. Sometimes I wonder if it would be possible to add to job4dev a service that would turn recruiters in…

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Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by narcvs » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 6:59 AM UTC

Steer wrote: post #17

My guess is that someone has already taken matters into his/her own hands, check out his blog (redirected to from Beau's domain mentioned in the post): http://opensourcestaffing.wordpress.com/ The latest post is (probably) not of his own doing I would say.

I'm afraid to say I expect it's actually his own doing. Considering his behavior it doesn't seem out of place for him.

The post: http://opensourcestaffing.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/504/

This guy is such a troll - where's anonymous when we need them?

Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it

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Post by clownz0r » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 7:10 AM UTC

Steer wrote: post #17

My guess is that someone has already taken matters into his/her own hands, check out his blog (redirected to from Beau's domain mentioned in the post): http://opensourcestaffing.wordpress.com/ The latest post is (probably) not of his own doing I would say.

His blog is now marked as private and requires a login