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1. This has been submitted before, 302 days ago in fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nina4airbnb.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nina4airb
by startupfounder 11y ago
1. This has been submitted before, 302 days ago in fact:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nina4airbnb.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nina4airbnb.com
2. This is actually a case study in how to market yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150714043548/http://media.wix.com/ugd/25c031_fab734c9df1e4424a0476f4ce932b2c9.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150714043548/http://media.wix....
3. From the case study:
These are the numbers:
• 445,000+ Visits to Nina4Airbnb
• Hundreds of thousands of Tweets and millions of impressions
• 30,000+ New visitors to my personal blog
• 14,000+ LinkedIn profile views
• 2,000+ Emails and messages of support from around the world
• Global media coverage
• An interview with Airbnb
• A pipeline of interviews with dozens of other high impact companies
4. This is her blog post about it: http://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ http://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the-...
5. Fireside chat: https://youtu.be/tcjaqeXjKuc?t=7m14s https://youtu.be/tcjaqeXjKuc?t=7m14s
- misterbwong 11y agoThe blog post is worth a read. This part was especially interesting to me: the person interviewing me was saying he couldn’t contextualize my experience because i “hadn’t worked at facebook or google or studied at stanford”.
- kelukelugames 11y agoThat's awful if true. Especially as a direct quote. So much for being inclusive.
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- tlxwiggum 11y agoSV is far from inclusive. Pedigree is every thing out here. Else, you're just in the 'minor' leagues trying to break in.
- FLUX-YOU 11y agoI have a great idea for a start up named "Burnr" to burn the whole fucking thing to the ground. Must have 3 years experience as a molotov professional.
- jrjarrett 11y agoWhat in hell does that even MEAN? "contextualize an experience?"
- criddell 11y agoNot sure, but I think it means they couldn't make an apples-to-apples comparison. To them, they wanted some Coca Cola and instead were presented with a pair of Air Jordans. Sure, they are nice shoes, but they wanted a Coke.
- badloginagain 11y agoActually, they got a Pepsi. Tastes the same, affects the body the same, the only thing different was the packaging. And to be honest, if they didn't hire her because of the interviewers bias then she may have dodged a bullet- that kind of thing really raises a red flag for what a companies culture really values. And now I'll be more wary if looking for a job at AirBnb
- true_religion 11y agoIt means placing an experience in context, and being able to relate it to other contexts. For example, if you know someone who works with PHP then contextualizing their experience could follow these steps: understand that PHP is a programming language, look at their code and see it is well architected, decide to hire them even despite inexperience in Ruby because they have the core skills. Being unable to contextualize experience isn't the same as not having emotional empathy. It is being unable to have an actionable intellectual grasp of a topic.
- samstave 11y agoTrue, that interviewer should either not be interviewing or perhaps not even be working in this industry then...
- extra88 11y agoMy best guess is the interviewer didn't know shit and could only use "facebook," "google," "stanford" as indicators that someone who did know shit considered the interviewee worthwhile.
- samstave 11y agoAh! Thanks I knew I had seen this tactic before, but I thought this is a new attempt. Regardless it's still a well done effort.