Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

mashable.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 71 posts

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#51

Post by Matt_Mickiewicz »

asdfprou wrote: post #48
timdorr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DA was featured a couple weeks ago on TC: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/quora-airbnb-others-made-30... Seems pretty successful to me!

I like that they have the ability for one employer to ask a question and have that question answered in public for all other auction-goers to see. Seems like they have put a lot of thought into the website design.

It's essentially a crowdsourced interview, and a way for employers to engage with candidates while remaining anonymous, before they submit their offer.

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#52

Post by blitzcraig »

Matt_Mickiewicz wrote: post #30
dllthomas wrote: post #7

Okay, but it's still turning away most of us, right?

We're also approving developers with notable GitHub accounts, Computer Science grads from top Universities, etc. but it's not perfect. Employer & education are only a rudimentary filter for the time being - some of the best engineers I know are self-taught and work at companies you might not have heard of. It's a big challenge, and we'll get there eventually. I'd love to get your ideas on how to filter through candid…

In the meantime, your service is useless to the vast majority of us.

Have fun with your Ivy League circle jerk.

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#55

Post by Matt_Mickiewicz »

vanni wrote: post #53

"DeveloperAuction.com is currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates." [ http://developerauction.com/for_developers ] Meh.

We're actually accepting a broader base of applicants than our site suggests, we're vetting every application manually, so if you've got some impressive stuff to show to us (and potential employers), go ahead and register.

Employers & education history are only rudimentary filters for the time being, and only part of our vetting process.

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#56

Post by Matt_Mickiewicz »

creativityhurts wrote: post #54

I created a profile out of curiosity although the plain boostrap site didn't give me any confidence but I found it a bit irritating that the phone number was mandatory. I just hope it doesn't fall in the hands of just any recruiter.

Thanks.

The phone number will not be disclosed to anybody without your permission. At the end of the auction, you get the select what offers you're interested in and which ones you're not. When you say "yes", we shoot out an intro email.

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#57

Post by creativityhurts »

vanni wrote: post #53

"DeveloperAuction.com is currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates." [ http://developerauction.com/for_developers ] Meh.

It doesn't stop anyone from creating a profile though. It's still weird, it looks more like an attempt to snatch talent from some of the highest paying employers.

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#58

Post by lhc- »

kolya3 wrote: post #32
alainbryden wrote: post #25

Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous to ask for a 15% of annual salary recruitment fee? Why would any reasonable company agree to pay a website $15,000 just because they indexed their new 100k/year hiree's résume?. I think they're way over-valuing the service they provide. A smart recruiter who found someone they really wanted on Developer Auction would simply look them up elsewhere and make them an offer out…

If an employer is smart they'll calculate the hours wasted interviewing candidates * avg hourly pay and likely realize that this cost is far greater than the $15K fee they'd pay a recruiter. Not to mention the delays in your projects as a result of your best engineers being distracted with interviewing candidates.

Even if your recruiter suggested some potentially strong candidate, you still have to interview them to be sure they are a good fit and to be sure they actually have the skills they claim. I'm not sure how this saves you time in that respect.

Re: This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

#60

Post by dllthomas »

Matt_Mickiewicz wrote: post #30
dllthomas wrote: post #7

Okay, but it's still turning away most of us, right?

We're also approving developers with notable GitHub accounts, Computer Science grads from top Universities, etc. but it's not perfect. Employer & education are only a rudimentary filter for the time being - some of the best engineers I know are self-taught and work at companies you might not have heard of. It's a big challenge, and we'll get there eventually. I'd love to get your ideas on how to filter through candid…

The best way of assessing someone's value in this kind of work is to work with them. Extracting that second hand, through recommendations and such, seems to be substantially less reliable but perhaps there's some way to engineer around that? I wonder what you'd get if 1) recommendations were public, and 2) they were explicitly a statement that "I have worked with this person and they are better than me at X".
Post reply on HN