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> the information of how to land a job in a specific group is very unique and not easy to commoditize across an entire industry or with generic blog posts, but

by mmt 8y ago

> the information of how to land a job in a specific group is very unique and not easy to commoditize across an entire industry or with generic blog posts, but the complexity of that knowledge is very low, hence many are qualified to accurately give it I think that's the key assertion I was missing, the uniqueness of the information to each group. I suspect that, because that generally does not apply nearly as much in the tech industry, HN readers (including myself) are more likely to respond with skepticism. This may even be the case for people coming from other industries, so you may want to find a way to emphasize this particular value proposition.

dchhugani 8y ago
I'm very scared to speak about something I don't know in-depth, but my engineer friends (And even some HN readers in the thread) are very vocal that even in tech this is the case. For example, the product marketing team at Facebook has pretty different skillsets & requirements they're looking for than the product management team for a specific silo (perhaps even more so than in banking, where the skills are still kind of similar in terms of Excel/PowerPoint and financial analysis). In tech - I'd bet it's even harder to commoditize advice and every team is even harder to prep for. One team might focus on Python, the other on mySQL, the other might have a manager that likes to test in some weird way. And tech has very high turnover (banking alike), but interviewing processes are more flexible from what I hear so it must be even more dynamic (as in if your manager changes every 12-24 months, interviewing processes for that team change too), whereas banking interviews have largely remained the same for years and still people crave for this advice. This is what I've heard- so feel free to refute any of this, it's not primary knowledge.

by mmt 8y ago

dchhugani 8y ago

I'm very scared to speak about something I don't know in-depth, but my engineer friends (And even some HN readers in the thread) are very vocal that even in tech this is the case. For example, the product marketing team at Facebook has pretty different skillsets & requirements they're looking for than the product management team for a specific silo (perhaps even more so than in banking, where the skills are still kind of similar in terms of Excel/PowerPoint and financial analysis). In tech - I'd bet it's even harder to commoditize advice and every team is even harder to prep for. One team might focus on Python, the other on mySQL, the other might have a manager that likes to test in some weird way. And tech has very high turnover (banking alike), but interviewing processes are more flexible from what I hear so it must be even more dynamic (as in if your manager changes every 12-24 months, interviewing processes for that team change too), whereas banking interviews have largely remained the same for years and still people crave for this advice. This is what I've heard- so feel free to refute any of this, it's not primary knowledge.