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I've been sad more than once that Starfighter was shut down. What are you working on now and what's your hiring strategy?
by AlchemistCamp 7y ago
I've been sad more than once that Starfighter was shut down.
What are you working on now and what's your hiring strategy?
- tptacek 7y agoFor the last couple years Erin & I have been partners at Latacora, which is like a version of Matasano that instead of just doing application vulnerability assessment, joins startup engineering teams for 9-18 months to run their whole security team and then recruits full-timers in to replace us once it's up and running (there are 4 other partners, including one of my Matasano cofounders). In addition to appsec, we do cloud security, secops, and corpsec/vendorsec. It's been pretty great! We hire almost the same way we did at Matasano, but more so: we're almost completely resume-blind, don't do phone screens, and have only an hour or so of face-to-face interviews that don't include any tech-out at all. Even here, where part of the premise of retaining us is that we're going to do recruiting work for you, we still have to actively sell our approach for qualifying candidates, and many of our clients still do some technical interviews. (Patrick, of course, has been at Stripe since we wound down Starfighter). I miss the technical work we did at Starfighter but if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't make it a business through contingency recruiting; fee-for-placement contingency recruiting is an experiment I expect never to repeat again.
- AlchemistCamp 7y agoBest of luck to you! I'd love to see resume status filters eroded over time, to the benefit of employers and employees both.