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How is this not a recruiting thing? It's promoting your supposedly superior hiring process.

tptacek 4y ago
Well, for starters, we've paused hiring for a few months on the role it pertains to? Once again: this started as a hiring challenge, and Ben and Kyle overperformed and made it something more interesting. I guess we could have waited a few months and ran this at a time when we could metabolize more platform candidates, but, once again: this isn't a recruiting thing.
- babelfish 4y ago
  If you're not hiring, maybe you should remove this call to action implying you are at the bottom of the post: > We reserved this last challenge for evaluating our staff engineers at Fly.io. So if you think you'd be up to the challenge, we'd love to talk to you.
  - tptacek 4y ago
    We're happy to talk. But the first thing you'll hear from us is "we've paused platform hiring for a couple months".
    - darkmarmot 4y ago
      Looks fun and interesting. I will say your recruiting call at the end made some of the devs where I work swear off your service... I think there have been enough scams in this vein that it rubs certain people in a bad way.
      - tptacek 4y ago
        Our "recruiting call at the end" of what? I'm sorry, I don't understand. This post isn't advertising a new service; it's literally just a series of blog posts.
        johnbellone 4y ago
        I am not passing judgment, but it’s literally the last sentence of the link. Personally, I don’t see any problems.
      - dadrian 4y ago
        Sorry, what? A company blog post that links to their jobs page means you won't use a service? Do you just not use any service that advertises? How do you get Internet access?
        darkmarmot 4y ago
        I'm not that sensitive and have loved recruiting code games/challenges put out by other companies (like Scribd's AI recruiting game way back...) I was just noting that when I shared this link with my extended team, there was a pretty negative reaction because of how this type of thing has been used in the past by unscrupulous actors.

Well, for starters, we've paused hiring for a few months on the role it pertains to? Once again: this started as a hiring challenge, and Ben and Kyle overperformed and made it something more interesting. I guess we could have waited a few months and ran this at a time when we could metabolize more platform candidates, but, once again: this isn't a recruiting thing.

babelfish 4y ago
If you're not hiring, maybe you should remove this call to action implying you are at the bottom of the post: > We reserved this last challenge for evaluating our staff engineers at Fly.io. So if you think you'd be up to the challenge, we'd love to talk to you.
- tptacek 4y ago
  We're happy to talk. But the first thing you'll hear from us is "we've paused platform hiring for a couple months".
  - darkmarmot 4y ago
    Looks fun and interesting. I will say your recruiting call at the end made some of the devs where I work swear off your service... I think there have been enough scams in this vein that it rubs certain people in a bad way.
    - tptacek 4y ago
      Our "recruiting call at the end" of what? I'm sorry, I don't understand. This post isn't advertising a new service; it's literally just a series of blog posts.
      - johnbellone 4y ago
        I am not passing judgment, but it’s literally the last sentence of the link. Personally, I don’t see any problems.
    - dadrian 4y ago
      Sorry, what? A company blog post that links to their jobs page means you won't use a service? Do you just not use any service that advertises? How do you get Internet access?
      - darkmarmot 4y ago
        I'm not that sensitive and have loved recruiting code games/challenges put out by other companies (like Scribd's AI recruiting game way back...) I was just noting that when I shared this link with my extended team, there was a pretty negative reaction because of how this type of thing has been used in the past by unscrupulous actors.