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Most executives and investors just throw shit at the wall to see what sticks, imo. Then move on to the next place. That's why golden handshakes exist.
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Tbf, I'd rather get a "we didn't review your CV" response than a template "we are continuing with other candidates :)" response. It softens the blow considerably and helps me as an applicant better keep track on which variation of the CV is working best because I can just remove this datapoint.
> Tbf, I'd rather get a "we didn't review your CV" response than a template "we are continuing with other candidates :)" response. Idk it sounds plausible that OP might just have been late to the party, and applied when the recruitment process was at the final stages.
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I remember applying for a German company for something and they wanted me to submit a professional photo. For an IT role...
For good or ill -- probably the latter -- headshots are expected with CVs in most of Europe. It's a local custom. Source: I worked in Germany and had to deal with this. (In fact, one of the ways I made my application stand out from other North Americans was to learn this ahead of time and include a headshot in my original application)
Germany is weird. But then again, that's not news.
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it kind of happened, he went through seven interviews. from the same post: > But ultimately, should Google have hired me? Yes, absolutely yes. I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but people really like them. Surely, surely Google could have used that.
> I am often a dick It make things really nice and easy when someone tells me enough about themselves in just a few words to make me not want to work with them. Maybe that's why he didn't get hired? His dickishness came through in the interviews?
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Do you think they already have hired someone to work on it but are just not releasing the source code?
I don't think so. They use an outdated version straight from crates.io (at least in the publicly available version of Claude Desktop).
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Basically "tl;dr" is what they responded with to his job application.
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Compute is a precious resource. The world is also full of totally delusional people who dreamed up the idea of using winzip to compress VRAM on the GPU, and now Anthropic will definitely hire them for $1M year for this genius solution, so better write up a glammed up resume and auto-send it once a day for any open position.
Opportunity also is a precious resource. Redirecting resume to /dev/null is wasting it. I have a hard time believing that LLMs, with all their sophistication, aren't ideally suited for this task.
Seattle is full of people who will tell you what it’s like to work for Amazon and how you don’t want to work there. I guess if you’re big enough though the money papers over a lot of sins. The smaller you are, the more people you can piss off before you run out of prospects. Anthropocene still has a long way to go before they are Facebook, who struggles because something like 50% of the people who would work for FB already have.
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The fact that the management of this forum, who are VCs, permitted such a mechanism is part of the "own it, HN" assertion. HN has baked in something like 'peter principle' into the forum. Karma Grifters who post articles that get them over the 500 points are then ala Peter Principle granted the right to 'grey out' actual thoughtful comments. Are you telling the management of this outfit never looked into this phenome…
> Are you telling the management of this outfit never looked into this phenomena? To counter, I think that HN is being used as a testcase to shove techbro and VC ideology across all of tech. And secondly, its some of the most potent tech market research. Its a textsearch goldmine. I believe YC knew what they were doing, and intentionally chose this course of action. I'm guessing you're not in the VC or founder club.…
Seems plausible. They certainly are not dummies. They just have a different 'value system'. So, yeah.
(Thanks for lobsters tip. til.)
Antrhropic: tl;dr kthxbye
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Which is not something that happened, even according to Max Howell himself: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin... > I feel bad about my tweet, I don’t feel it was fair, and it fed the current era of outragism-driven-reading that is the modern Internet, and thus went viral, and for that I am truly sorry.
Building popular software doesn't mean you're a good programmer, especially since at that point Google was looking heavily at CS concepts and he admittedly wasn't good at that. It's also possible he would have been hired if he applied for L-1. A lot of people get an ego check applying to Google where they're a senior staff engineer or a CTO at a small company and get an L5 offer.