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It has been no longer than 3 months...
That's worse , it means you're running through them rather quickly....
tl;dr, we are not "running through" them.
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500friends founder/CEO here. Look at my team - 500friends.com/team. Most people are who you may consider to be "old." And we wouldn't be where we're at without them. We do not discriminate against age. What we meant is that we're looking for someone who has coded in the past decade. Someone that has been managing 1,000 people at Oracle may not be the right fit for a company of our stage. Make sense?
Hi Justin. It makes sense, but why didn't you say something more like that to begin with? Something like "Active development skills are part of the hiring criteria". You already mention doing Ruby development -- someone who hasn't coded in a decade, probably doesn't have much Ruby experience. It just seems odd that of all the possible ways to ask for what you describe above, you choose arguably the most offensive and…
The reason for this is that if you haven't been coding (just managing) for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough for a company of our stage. We have gotten a lot of very smart but "big company" people who had applied for this position. Sorry for the confusion however, most of our team is actually MUCH holder than the typical start-up: 500friends.com/team. We may be a lot of things but are definitely not…
Hey right over here everyone!!! This is called ageism. If you write code and you are over 35, you are toast. Yes even you the "above average coder"...done and done. Now wait till that immigration bill passes, make 150k? GOOD ___ing BYE.
If you write code and you are over 35, you are toast. In SV, maybe. Hopefully not so much elsewhere or I'm gonna have a hard time paying off my student loans...
Crap. I have 11 years experience doing some pretty awesome shit. I guess this is the last year I can get a legit job in a startup.
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That's worse , it means you're running through them rather quickly....
My co-founder was previously the (only) VP of Engineering (and did a great job), but we mutually parted ways after the Series B. These things happen... tl;dr, we are not "running through" them.
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Before you edit much further: We want someone who has less than 12 years of MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE. The reason is that if you haven't been coding for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough This arbitrary cutoff makes absolutely no sense. I'd like to see your quantification of skill drop off per year of management. If what you are wanting is a hands-on technical manager, then you need to say so. And it shou…
this has caused so many misinterpretations that I have edited it out of the post completely... But essentially, the ideal candidate was someone who was CODING 5-12 years ago...
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Any notion that 500friends is ageist is a complete fabrication. This can be validated by looking at our team (link).
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Before you edit much further: We want someone who has less than 12 years of MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE. The reason is that if you haven't been coding for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough This arbitrary cutoff makes absolutely no sense. I'd like to see your quantification of skill drop off per year of management. If what you are wanting is a hands-on technical manager, then you need to say so. And it shou…
this has caused so many misinterpretations that I have edited it out of the post completely... But essentially, the ideal candidate was someone who was CODING 5-12 years ago...
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I didn't get the impression OP thought that he was too good to implement a linked list in JS. Rather, he was looking for a company that was too good to spend interview time on a question containing low signal. Like, the question itself is boring and cookie cutter. Why not implement a linked list or a tree in SQL (much more interesting for everyone)? Or a simple query language in JavaScript (a bit more practical)? Or…