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Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place
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#92Has anyone else had a hell of a time finding a job in SF lately? It seems like there is so much competition now I literally can't even get an in-person interview. It's a total shift from 5 years ago when people were begging you to come in after a quick phone screen. Now it's nothing but automated responses with Triplebyte quizzes and getting ghosted.
I'm on the east coast and I've gotten hit up by many of the big companies in SF this month (even with the option to allow recruiters to contact me off on linkedin).
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On your FAQ page you say "This will require a monthly subscription fee for companies". What does the company get in exchange for the monthly subscription fee?
You could use the fact that a candidate has been verified to have interviews at a FAANG to let other tech companies poach them. Maybe a footer saying "Have you considered ACME Corp? (sponsored)" with a bidding system based on where they're interviewing or have interviewed. Would HN consider that an invasion of privacy?
Not a violation of privacy if you get the users’ consent first. And I’m sure that there are people who would actually want this as a service.
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I haven't felt this at all. What companies are you applying to? How much experience do you have?
>I haven't felt this at all. What companies are you applying to? How much experience do you have? Mostly mid-size startups. I have 5 years experience as a front end dev, but being self taught with no degree I look pretty bad on paper. It's never been a problem for me in the past, but it seems like the market for mid-level self taught developers is drying up.
I have the same qualifications as you. And the same struggle getting my foot in the door. I used Triplebyte and it was fantastic. If you can pass their interview it's worth doing.
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I got clear feedback from Google, Box, and Clearbit about what they didn’t like about the on-sites in my last job search 2 months ago. At google I did bad in one of the technical questions (they told me which), box said I didn’t seem excited about the company (true), and Clearbit said I wasn’t able to implement a simple solution to a complex problem (because I was forced to use ruby and was rusty).
That’s very suprising to me; I have given interviews at Google and Apple and they really drilled into my head that giving any feedback about performance was left to the recruiter, and any response no matter how germane it sounded could open up the company to lawsuits. That kind of answer was exactly what we were told we could not give.
I think when companies give feedback it is a recruiter or HR person doing it, and they are more aware of what could be lawsuit bait. I think companies want to avoid having engineers give the feedback, but are ok having HR do it.
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#96> Interview feedback - Give interview feedback to your interviewer and get feedback back. I'd be very surprised (and impressed) if any interviewer gives honest feedback on the interview, in writing (via the app), esp. in cases where candidate was rejected / didn't receive an offer. Cos that would have a discrimination lawsuit written all over it. HR and/or Recruiters also never gives candid feedback for the same reas…
I got clear feedback from Google, Box, and Clearbit about what they didn’t like about the on-sites in my last job search 2 months ago. At google I did bad in one of the technical questions (they told me which), box said I didn’t seem excited about the company (true), and Clearbit said I wasn’t able to implement a simple solution to a complex problem (because I was forced to use ruby and was rusty).
When I interviewed at Clearbit I got more or less the same response for probably more or less the same reason.
The only thing I didn’t like about it is that the requirements never said they were looking for ‘simple solution’.
Ah well.
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#97Getting an interview is the biggest hurdle. I can usually count the number of interviews with my fingers, at least from the companies I'd want to work for - that is, it's usually under 5, most often 2-3, sometimes just 1. Definitely don't need another login/app to manage them.
I see you are in a luxury position.
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Wow that's a lot of applications. I am actually shocked. How come? Are you not getting the jobs or are you striving for the perfect position? Were all those applications hand crafter for each position?
His numbers track closely to mine when I had only an unrelated career behind me. 300~ applications. ~25 actual rejections. ~15 phone interviews. ~5 onsites. ~1 accepted. It felt both necessary and successful, considering the junior dev market is flooded and treacherous.
Rather different role at a different time but my early job applications were largely spray and pray. (Though I dd get my second full-time job out of grad school through an on-campus interview.)
Since then though, it's been basically through specific personal connections with essentially no applications as such.
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#99I've been noodling on this product idea for about 6 months now, but never gotten around to building it. Drat, but congrats on doing it. One killer feature I would propose is to help candidates weigh up multiple offers; salary, equity, commute time, enjoyment, advancement, etc.
Paysa (http://www.paysa.com/) does this killer feature you speak of well imo. I have used them in the past.
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#100Honest feedback: I don't see how this succeeds without integration with existing applicant workflows. The cognitive overhead of another app to store data, manually update status etc is high.
If e.g. Monster or Indeed launched this as a value-add to existing functionality it would be big, but i'm not going to make the effort you're asking for in isolation.