How to Ace a Phone Screen
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How to Ace a Phone Screen
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#2I don't think "make a hummingbird with CSS" is really a universal way to ace a phone screen. A more appropriate article title might be "how I aced a phone screen at zenfits.com".
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#3Awesome bird dude! You're hired!
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#4This is not really the attitude a company should have when they manage benefits:
On the flip side, with so many people contributing code mistakes are bound to happen. That’s normal – after all we’re all just people, and people make mistakes. One thing that I’ve found particularly admirable about our team here is that people own up right away, and strive to fix things as fast as possible. No one wants to ship buggy code, but it happens. The nice thing about working with so many smart and friendly devs though is that you can trust that someone will be there to catch you if you fall and help you fix things.
We've caught and reported 4-5 bugs in production to Zenefits on really basic features. Three of our employees have now been asked to send a screenshot of the dashboard with the JS console open...
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#5Just make sure not to publicly discuss your deal/doubts about the company or the ceo will tantrum and revoke it. And then, in a bold stand for integrity, edit his answer to remove the offer revokation.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-caree...
http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-rescinds-job-off...
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#6This is very much unlike the phone screens I've been through. Most of mine involve the recruiter trying to see if I can back up the words I said on my resume to see if I am worthy for a technical interview.
This article did little to tell me how to ace it other than a little snippet of "I did a cool project to stand out". Which, admittedly, is cool, but I don't feel like it gave many tips on how to "ace" the phone screen. Also the end was basically an ad for Zenefits (well done).
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#7I don't think "make a hummingbird with CSS" is really a universal way to ace a phone screen. A more appropriate article title might be "how I aced a phone screen at zenfits.com ".
I think the takeaway is that it's a competitive jungle out there and some companies may appreciate your effort to standout from the rest.
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#8Just make sure not to publicly discuss your deal/doubts about the company or the ceo will tantrum and revoke it. And then, in a bold stand for integrity, edit his answer to remove the offer revokation. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-caree... http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-rescinds-job-off...
This is the kind of stuff that haunts companies when prospective employees are doing research on where to work. Not easy to get rid of either.
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#9I had the opportunity to speak with Albert on a developer panel and he told this story (we were speaking to software developers that had just begun their job search). He's a very nice guy and I think this is great, general advice for people just beginning to step into the world of software development and don't quite yet have a resume that can "wow" people. I'm glad to see Zenefits recognized that.
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#10Just make sure not to publicly discuss your deal/doubts about the company or the ceo will tantrum and revoke it. And then, in a bold stand for integrity, edit his answer to remove the offer revokation. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-caree... http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-rescinds-job-off...
Came in here to post exactly this. Publicly rescinding an employee offer by a CEO is amateur hour and shows a clear sign of immaturity. Caveat emptor.