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Sometimes I go out of my way to make Karma real for individuals who push negative energy into the universe. I was out of work for longer than I wanted last yea

by maeon3 15y ago

Sometimes I go out of my way to make Karma real for individuals who push negative energy into the universe. I was out of work for longer than I wanted last year, and I found exactly zero recruiters who treated me like a human being. I was treated as a number. You can't blame them, because of supply and demand meet power corrupts. What goes around comes around.

endtime 15y ago
Spitefulness is generally not a good strategy.
nbm 15y ago
Were these company recruiters, or third-party recruiters? I've never really had any luck with third-party recruiters - they don't seem to have an interest in understanding you and your skills, assuming they even understand those skills. My experience with Facebook's recruiting team has been amazing, though. August last year I was approached by a technical recruiter at Facebook because I attended Velocity. I was initially quite skeptical about the entire thing (I'm from South Africa, needed a H-1B, needed my partner to get a visa as well) as well as generally jaded due to burn-out. She kept on my case, roping in lawyers and so forth to answer my more detailed questions about the work visa situation. Another recruiter was involved in the final prep, on-site interview, offer, and acceptance, and then through all the visa paperwork (and boy do I hate paperwork!), up till the first day at work. And then they didn't disappear - they've been keeping in contact with me, meeting at lunch every few weeks, seeing how I'm settling in, whether I want to stay where I am in the company, and introducing me to people. And I've now worked with them twice at recruiting events - at Velocity and Hacker Fair. So, I hope you encounter recruiters who make you feel like a human being, and who care as much about doing a good job as you do, because they are out there.
- rdl 15y ago
  Palantir, FB, and Quora all have top-notch internal recruiters - it's one of their big differentiators. A bunch of other top-tier startups have their top, productive execs handle most high-profile recruiting (Keith Rabois at Square, ...) Most startups have the founders handle recruiting, except for the mechanical details of HR compliance and scheduling. Recruiting is probably the #1 task of a startup founder on an ongoing basis; sales being #2, and product work being #3.
- bluehat 15y ago
  We did not permit any 3rd party recruiters to register for the fair. Companies had to prove that they were hiring and while equity was permitted they had to prove they were able to pay a living wage in addition to the equity package. Most of this was done by checking on their website, and for the small places generally lurking around Crunchbase etc.

by maeon3 15y ago

endtime 15y ago

Spitefulness is generally not a good strategy.

nbm 15y ago

Were these company recruiters, or third-party recruiters? I've never really had any luck with third-party recruiters - they don't seem to have an interest in understanding you and your skills, assuming they even understand those skills. My experience with Facebook's recruiting team has been amazing, though. August last year I was approached by a technical recruiter at Facebook because I attended Velocity. I was initially quite skeptical about the entire thing (I'm from South Africa, needed a H-1B, needed my partner to get a visa as well) as well as generally jaded due to burn-out. She kept on my case, roping in lawyers and so forth to answer my more detailed questions about the work visa situation. Another recruiter was involved in the final prep, on-site interview, offer, and acceptance, and then through all the visa paperwork (and boy do I hate paperwork!), up till the first day at work. And then they didn't disappear - they've been keeping in contact with me, meeting at lunch every few weeks, seeing how I'm settling in, whether I want to stay where I am in the company, and introducing me to people. And I've now worked with them twice at recruiting events - at Velocity and Hacker Fair. So, I hope you encounter recruiters who make you feel like a human being, and who care as much about doing a good job as you do, because they are out there.

rdl 15y ago
Palantir, FB, and Quora all have top-notch internal recruiters - it's one of their big differentiators. A bunch of other top-tier startups have their top, productive execs handle most high-profile recruiting (Keith Rabois at Square, ...) Most startups have the founders handle recruiting, except for the mechanical details of HR compliance and scheduling. Recruiting is probably the #1 task of a startup founder on an ongoing basis; sales being #2, and product work being #3.
bluehat 15y ago
We did not permit any 3rd party recruiters to register for the fair. Companies had to prove that they were hiring and while equity was permitted they had to prove they were able to pay a living wage in addition to the equity package. Most of this was done by checking on their website, and for the small places generally lurking around Crunchbase etc.