My thoughts on the difficulty in hiring for our startup.
Why I hate you because of your resume
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Why I hate you because of your resume
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Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#2This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#3This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".
Agreed. After reading this piece I can safely say the writer is somebody I would never want to work for. I can only hope this level of antagonism never flies in tech.
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#4This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".
"Give me code samples or I don't believe you can do anything". Remarkable stuff indeed.
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#5This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".
Really depends on the position to be filled. Recently we let go a senior member of our 6 member team. We really could not afford any more down time and needed someone with a pretty exacting skill set. After a blistering 35 interviews in 2 weeks I found 2. I'd say more often than not there is the person you are looking for with the right experience.
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#6Look, I'm not a huge fan of resumes, either, but if your suggested alternative is "beef up your LinkedIn profile", then I submit you've not got a single clue what you're talking about. This is bolstered by the fact that you apparently still think "hitting the ground running" is a thing that exists in the world. I will enjoy hiring the good developers that you've missed, just because you think PHP is some magical language to which solid experience in other programming languages does not translate.
I mean, seriously, fucking LinkedIn endorsements!?
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#7This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".
Really depends on the position to be filled. Recently we let go a senior member of our 6 member team. We really could not afford any more down time and needed someone with a pretty exacting skill set. After a blistering 35 interviews in 2 weeks I found 2. I'd say more often than not there is the person you are looking for with the right experience.
If your schedule is that tight, you've already failed.
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#8Why I hate you because of your blog post
1. You either don't know when an apostrophe is required, or you don't like the apostrophe.
2. You have embarrassing typos ("haven't hear of Twitter Bootstrap").
3. You refer to Twitter Bootstrap but it's not even in use on your website. Heck, your website isn't even using HTML5.
4. You refer to Git as GIT.
5. You make it sound like your company is an example of technical excellence, but your website doesn't even compile Less to CSS and instead uses less.js, which is not recommended for production use and will render your website practically useless for users with JavaScript disabled. Maybe the author is too busy critiquing code samples on Github to review his own code?
6. You haven't considered the possibility that the quality of your applicants is correlated to the appeal of your "startup."
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#9This person is the problem with tech hiring. "You've been working in some crappy language for years, but not my crappy language?" "You've never even heard of one of the tools we use to organize our code?" "I want someone who can hit the ground running, because I am delusional about my prospects of finding talent in this market".
I interpret "I want someone that can hit the ground running and if its not you, it will be someone else" to mean "I consider training you to be a waste of my time - start making me money day one, hour one or you're out."
Which seems short-sighted to say the least.
Re: Why I hate you because of your resume
#10You might not want to work the "Why I hate..resume" guy but I wouldn't discount the signal in all that noise. He seems clueless but he probably isn't the only one that wants his position requirements to be matched up to your skill set in the most obvious way i.e. clearly communicated. You could put this right at the top of your resume' or in your cover letter:
Requirement -- Matching Skill
PHP -- 3 years of PHP. See [1] for links to my PHP work
GIT -- I've been using source control professionally for the last N years (SVN and CVS) but I've played with GIT.
As far as the LinkedIn endorsements, I like to nominate my friends for "Warp Drive Design".