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Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by kevincox »

djsumdog wrote: post #7
danso wrote: post #5

Holy shit, putting on my protective suit before all the "DONT BREAK MY BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON" comments come pouring in :). Actually, I don't think it would break browser interaction, but yeah, I think she should consider re-creating the page as text rather than screenshots of text. First of all, much easier to edit (and style) when it's just text. Second, makes it much easier for the employer to Cmd-F search for keyw…

Until I read this comment, I didn't realize those were all images instead of text. O_o

I noticed immediately because it looks terrible on a high-resolution display.

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by soared »

dikdik wrote: post #95
vonklaus wrote: post #2

This is awesome and a great way to get hired. Finding a company(or several) you really want to work at and targeting them specifically with a tailor made strategy is probably better than a shotgun approach. Best of luck to Nina.

I thought this too. But I am in the middle of my job search (applied for several on the ASK HN thread) and the calls I have received back are for jobs I did not write a cover letter or at most a paragraph that I sent with my resume. The two companies where I spent almost a week each writing a cover letter and editing it until I thought it was perfect, have not even bothered to send me a "not interested." Obviously an…

I've had the same experience. Written ~10 unique cover letters (for positions I really wanted), done a couple 'practice problems' but the only positive responses have been from 4 sentence long emails I sent out to people who posted on Ask HN.

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by hackaflocka »

tanker wrote: post #66
alexashka wrote: post #39

The bigger story here is that given that she's clearly way above average at what she does - she couldn't find a job for a year and did this as a last resort - an act of desperation. Which also did not work out - she ended up with Elance. If we measure success by job vs no job, then yes, otherwise... eh... People 'say' they want creativity, passion, etc - but in reality, most people who work in successful companies di…

This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players." [1] Results will vary by who is hiring. [1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

Jobs hired Sculley. What does that make Jobs?

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by welanes »

inanutshellus wrote: post #64
unexpected wrote: post #17

Speaking as someone who works in a Middle Eastern country, most of these countries would totally lose their minds if AirBnB made serious penetration into the Middle East. They absolutely do not want/tolerate these types of services (Uber also comes to mind).

Totally fascinating! Why on earth would anyone care what someone else does with their home/car?

Oh you!

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by holografix »

hackaflocka wrote: post #103
tanker wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like an instance of Job's "A players hire A players, B players hire C players." [1] Results will vary by who is hiring. [1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

Jobs hired Sculley. What does that make Jobs?

This. Can people please stop quoting Jobs? He was a massive narcissist who propped himself up on other people's work.

This bullshit about A players was just his way of forcing everyone that worked for him to fear not delivering on his absurd expectations lest they become a "B" player.

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by CaptSpify »

MollyR wrote: post #100
CaptSpify wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I constantly hear "We can't find any good techs". After interviews, I ask how it went, and I constantly hear "He was great, but he wanted too much money!" So I whistle and get back to work. I've tried bringing it up before, but it just seems to fall on deaf ears.

Several of the companies I've worked at had this exact issue. So we'd hire a few people fresh out of college train to them to an acceptable standard, then watch them find another higher paying job. Leadership refused to pay good developers, their market worth. It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.

> It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.

I've heard that too, but I also hear they work less hours, have better vacation, and other benefits. You'll have to balance something out if you really want great employees.

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by MollyR »

CaptSpify wrote: post #106
MollyR wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Several of the companies I've worked at had this exact issue. So we'd hire a few people fresh out of college train to them to an acceptable standard, then watch them find another higher paying job. Leadership refused to pay good developers, their market worth. It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.

> It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America. I've heard that too, but I also hear they work less hours, have better vacation, and other benefits. You'll have to balance something out if you really want great employees.

Our CEO from the uk didn't bring any of those benefits over.

Re: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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Post by dikdik »

pinewurst wrote: post #99
dikdik wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought this too. But I am in the middle of my job search (applied for several on the ASK HN thread) and the calls I have received back are for jobs I did not write a cover letter or at most a paragraph that I sent with my resume. The two companies where I spent almost a week each writing a cover letter and editing it until I thought it was perfect, have not even bothered to send me a "not interested." Obviously an…

I'm in the midst of the same process and have observed exactly the same.

Well now I have to eat some crow. I ended up hearing back from one of these companies a couple days after my original comment. It was very positive, too! Hang in there, my friend, need lots of patience for this.
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