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Tech recruiter from Switzerland here. YCombinator funds startups, and startups need scale. Hiring is very personal, very hard to automate and scale. Often, t
by iwangulenko 6y ago
Tech recruiter from Switzerland here.
YCombinator funds startups, and startups need scale.
Hiring is very personal, very hard to automate and scale.
Often, tech hiring startups start in a creative way but later become a database of profiles where recruiters can source, similar to Linkedin. Aline Lerner, founder of https://interviewing.io https://interviewing.io, wrote about this problem here: https://blog.alinelerner.com/ive-been-an-engineer-and-a-recruiter-hiring-is-broken-heres-why-and-heres-what-it-should-be-like-instead/ https://blog.alinelerner.com/ive-been-an-engineer-and-a-recr...
- muzani 6y agoI'm sure there's some parts that can be scaled. I loved that Toptal handles the tough technical filter, as well as removing anyone who has been troublesome from their pool. Looking at the link you just shared, she says there's a 45 min recruiter screen, 1 hr technical phone screen, 6 hr engineering onsite, 1 hr recruiter onsite. That's four different parts that can be outsourced and specialized in. Codility probably replaces the technical phone screen. Onsite doesn't necessarily need to be in-house; both sides dread technical interviews. I'd rather do a 15 hour interview with a middle man like Triplebyte who can forward my details to multiple startups, rather than do two 6 hour interviews with different companies with a 20% chance of getting accepted. As a hiring startup, we also dread doing those interviews, because we could be filtering out a perfectly good person and it's already hard enough to convince people to join a startup.