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Post by BelVisgarra » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

siliconc0w wrote: post #116

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #92

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What is the incentive from the company side to use this? Any rejected candidate is going to say they had a bad experience.

The company's incentive is they get strong talent without the expensive of recruiters, they have a way to signal they're serious about hiring and aren't going to waste people's time. A rejected candidate may burn the company but it requires burning their own stake as well so the incentive is really only there if they feel they've been significantly mistreated.

Post by BelVisgarra » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC

siliconc0w wrote: post #36

Cyrpto had some interesting takes on these sort of problems that we haven't really applied more broadly. The way I'd design a job board is require the applicant to escrow X and the job poster to escrow Y*X. Y is is the trust ratio. Given a bad experience, either the side can 'burn' the other and send both escrowed amounts to charity. An okay trust ratio might be 10, meaning they'll give you 10:1 burn ratio. A good on…

Post by BelVisgarra » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC

tryauuum wrote: post #16

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #8

No. A job being “verified” doesn’t solve the main problem post around 2023. Every single job opening gets hundreds of openings within the first day of it being opened. If you are looking for a job as any type of generic developer - full stack, front end, mobile, back end, it’s almost impossible to stand out from the crowd. No, “I reversed a btree on the whiteboard to get into big tech as a mid level developer” doesn’…

Jesus christ, AWS has niches This shouldn't surprise me, knowledge of a code base is a competitive advantage. But there is just something depressing about it. Maybe it being closed source and you having to learn it by being burned by undocumented behavior? Please tell more

Post by stevenicr » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC

lazypenguin wrote: post #26

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #8

No. A job being “verified” doesn’t solve the main problem post around 2023. Every single job opening gets hundreds of openings within the first day of it being opened. If you are looking for a job as any type of generic developer - full stack, front end, mobile, back end, it’s almost impossible to stand out from the crowd. No, “I reversed a btree on the whiteboard to get into big tech as a mid level developer” doesn’…

Yes, we recently posted for an entry/mid level position and we got 1800 applications in a few days. It’s impossible to filter the list, I spent several hours to see how feasible it was and after getting through maybe 150 applications I gave up. We’re a small team, we don’t have the resources to cut through the noise without just blanket rejecting people. There doesn’t need to be a board that vets jobs, there needs to…

Post by BelVisgarra » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 1:21 AM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #127

lazypenguin wrote: post #26

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Yes, we recently posted for an entry/mid level position and we got 1800 applications in a few days. It’s impossible to filter the list, I spent several hours to see how feasible it was and after getting through maybe 150 applications I gave up. We’re a small team, we don’t have the resources to cut through the noise without just blanket rejecting people. There doesn’t need to be a board that vets jobs, there needs to…

Have you seen linkedin's AI hiring assistant? (I've only read about it, but it sounds like it might be the thing) I noticed with linkedin premium - when you view a job listing it tells you how many other people have applied akready, and what number of them have masters, bachelors, phd, director level, etc. in this day, it should be a law that all the boards must post this info clearly - just to save us all a lot of t…