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Right, biggest pain point we're trying to solve for is engineers getting pulled away from their work to build, maintain, conduct, and evaluate interviews. I rec
by garyjlin 5y ago
Right, biggest pain point we're trying to solve for is engineers getting pulled away from their work to build, maintain, conduct, and evaluate interviews. I recently spoke to Stripe engineers that spend 2 hours a day, every day, on this. A Brex EM also every engineer on the team conducts 1 - 2 onsite interviews every week. Eng time is the biggest expense in the recruiting funnel, and it's particularly difficult to solve for that problem. We're hoping that if Litebulb can take care of some of the more tedious code analysis work, then we can help teams reduce their eng spend, or use the newly available time to build deeper connections with candidates as humans.
When it comes to changing engineering culture, I completely agree that a single tool like this isn't going to cut it, but we're seeing a big shift in new startups focusing a lot more on real work relevant take homes and/or work trials. For example, Gumroad (disclaimer: a client), does a Litebulb interview as the entrypoint, then it's straight to a 4-8 week paid trial on flexible hours with a choice of which project to work on. We're hoping that we can be a part of, and accelerate, this culture shift.
- hemloc_io 5y agoHmmm, maybe not a question for you, but for Gumroad, isn't there already an issue with candidates investing so much time in the process? (E.g. with any large company it can literally take 3 months+) For me as someone who just finished interviewing, if you told me that I either have to work on two jobs for 4-8 weeks or quit my current job for a limited contract that may or may not work out I'd almost certainly say no. (I think most people would too, I mean people already complain about take home quizes etc.)