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>when I can simply go do as many traditional interviews as I want, with the top 10 companies in my field (that are also not using starfighters.io), get multiple
by feral 10y ago
>when I can simply go do as many traditional interviews as I want, with the top 10 companies in my field (that are also not using starfighters.io), get multiple job offers that I can use for leverage/negotiation
But I bet many of the engineers you know hate collecting offers they aren't necessarily interested in, just to accumulate leverage (and honestly, to derisk the hire, create FOMO - "X has a competing offer from Y; I can see all the cracks in our hiring process, but I bet Y's is awesome!").
That takes precious energy. There's randomness in each interview. And lots of people hate current interviewing fashions (read any thread on the topic here).
But engineers often love doing games & coding puzzles for fun - which proxy well to dimensions of technical aptitude.
Imagine this world:
"As a software engineer, why would I even consider wasting my time with your technical screening process, when I can simply get as many role-fit discussions as I want, with the top 10 companies in my field (that are of course using starfighters.io), with my high score record that I can use for leverage/negotiation, without your boring programming-fundamentals interview wasting my days off?"
Can Starfighter execute on this? Probably too early to tell, looks hard to get started.
But can you see the potential? I think I can.