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As one of the founders, I readily admit that this product is not for every hiring situation. That's fine! We stil think that there's a large use-case/market her
by idan 16y ago
As one of the founders, I readily admit that this product is not for every hiring situation. That's fine! We stil think that there's a large use-case/market here.
There are many startups, and many more that aren't "social". There are lots of small technical shops that aren't startups at all, and don't have a deep network of people from which to fish out hires.
Eventually, everybody's well runs dry. How to do hiring effectively when you no longer have a trusted reference is a thorny problem. Even if we don't build a perfect solution, there's lots of room to make things better.
And no, we're not Tasty Labs. :) Check our about page.
- rdl 16y agoAh! I didn't see a link to the main site at the top of the page so I didn't check out the app description itself (I was not really that focused on it either). The actual solution you have looks like it should be interesting, and even if you have a pretty broad and deep personal network, could still be useful. I'd love it if you took outside assistance or some kind of social mechanic to create skillsapps for domains outside your team's expertise. I'd be really interested in crypto, security, protocol design, and satellite/rf network engineering. Maybe partner with existing domain specific certification entities?
- idan 16y agoWe are taking outside assistance; for any given topic we engage somebody prominent in the field to write the exam. "Somebody prominent" is somebody whose name is common knowledge for those familiar with the langualge/framework/etc in question. Could be the inventor (if we're lucky) or a popular developer who blogs on the subject. If we limited Skills to testing subjects we know, it would be a very limited app indeed. :)
- btilly 16y agoHow will Skills be different from http://www.brainbench.com/ http://www.brainbench.com/?