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Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by gedrap »

resetti wrote: post #7
GordyMD wrote: post #2

Hi there I'm Gordon and I am a software engineer! I have worked in the startup space for the 4 past years in London and San Francisco. Over this time I, like many others, have experienced the way in which the world of tech recruiting works. I have grown frustrated by the number of times I have been contacted about roles not suited to me and how recruiters regularly pitch me roles based on technologies I used in previ…

Caveat: haven't tried the site yet. Matching based on what you want to work on sounds dreamy for developers, and a like a disaster for startup employers. Startups are defined by change, and a critical thing you want to hire for is flexibility and tolerance for technology schleps. This seems like the opposite of what you're selecting for in developers. If you want to make things more pleasant for engineers, perhaps yo…

Agree. When you are running an early stage startup, you don't have much cash to burn and let people fiddle with what they want to try. You want to get something done, fast. And that's where the experienced folks come to help you.

It's different in larger companies, where you can afford more time for learning and self-discoveries.

Source: I worked for a startup where 3 out of 4 devs had 1 year of experience combined. Things didn't go well.

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by gedrap »

timjahn wrote: post #20

How does Github alone determine a good match? If I don't have much on my Github, I'm ineligible?

Recently, there seems to be a trend that everyone should be pushing code to github. While it's great (real project is much better than a paragraph in CV and it shows your activity over the time), there are a lot of devs who just don't have time or just can't push code there for good reasons.

For me, I push my toy projects there - my first RoR app, and that kind of stuff. Would I like an employer to decide hire/no hire based on my weekend projects? Thanks, no.

GitHub profile is a nice add on for a job application, but it shouldn't be the whole job application.

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by poppahorse »

great idea, love that it solves a problem so many in the tech industry seem to have finding the right people

think the design of the homepage, interface, and signup are all very slick

feel like it runs aground slightly if there are no matches, and as I had no matches, can't really comment on the end goal / application experience

otherwise good work, pretty interested to see where this goes, good luck!

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by timjahn »

gedrap wrote: post #22
timjahn wrote: post #20

How does Github alone determine a good match? If I don't have much on my Github, I'm ineligible?

Recently, there seems to be a trend that everyone should be pushing code to github. While it's great (real project is much better than a paragraph in CV and it shows your activity over the time), there are a lot of devs who just don't have time or just can't push code there for good reasons. For me, I push my toy projects there - my first RoR app, and that kind of stuff. Would I like an employer to decide hire/no hir…

My thoughts exactly.

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by bjackman »

Bug report: I tried to sign up (great landing page BTW - I think you pull off the flashy design) but when I clicked the "authorise" button from GitHub, I got dropped into JSON at http://www.workshape.io/api/0/session/connect/github/callbac... qeury params> (Not sure if its unsafe to post the whole URL. I cannot web).

Here's the JSON {"name":"RqlDriverError","msg":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined","message":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined"}

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by ehurrell »

gedrap wrote: post #22
timjahn wrote: post #20

How does Github alone determine a good match? If I don't have much on my Github, I'm ineligible?

Recently, there seems to be a trend that everyone should be pushing code to github. While it's great (real project is much better than a paragraph in CV and it shows your activity over the time), there are a lot of devs who just don't have time or just can't push code there for good reasons. For me, I push my toy projects there - my first RoR app, and that kind of stuff. Would I like an employer to decide hire/no hir…

I strongly agree with this, I push a lot of toy projects to GitHub, and some of the more interesting work I've done can't/won't end up there (I designed the algorithms behind an advanced analytics startup, but can't share the code since the startup failed because I don't own the rights, for example).

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by sarciszewski »

rob_mccann wrote: post #6
GordyMD wrote: post #2

Hi there I'm Gordon and I am a software engineer! I have worked in the startup space for the 4 past years in London and San Francisco. Over this time I, like many others, have experienced the way in which the world of tech recruiting works. I have grown frustrated by the number of times I have been contacted about roles not suited to me and how recruiters regularly pitch me roles based on technologies I used in previ…

I'm having some trouble logging in. First time I got redirected back from Github (to http://www.workshape.io/api/0/session/connect/github/callbac... ), I got {}, second time I tried, I got { name: "RqlDriverError", msg: "Object field 'id' may not be undefined", message: "Object field 'id' may not be undefined" }

Yeah. I was going to give it a shot, but I can't even get in the door :(

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by atmosx »

rob_mccann wrote: post #6
GordyMD wrote: post #2

Hi there I'm Gordon and I am a software engineer! I have worked in the startup space for the 4 past years in London and San Francisco. Over this time I, like many others, have experienced the way in which the world of tech recruiting works. I have grown frustrated by the number of times I have been contacted about roles not suited to me and how recruiters regularly pitch me roles based on technologies I used in previ…

I'm having some trouble logging in. First time I got redirected back from Github (to http://www.workshape.io/api/0/session/connect/github/callbac... ), I got {}, second time I tried, I got { name: "RqlDriverError", msg: "Object field 'id' may not be undefined", message: "Object field 'id' may not be undefined" }

Same error here..

Re: Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

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Post by atmosx »

GordyMD wrote: post #13
troels wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here.

Sorry about that. I'll look into this as soon as I can. Do either of you mind if I contact you via email to resolve?

Sure do, here is my profile with everything you need: https://github.com/atmosx
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