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It's not a fundamentally bad idea from a practical point of view (like I said, I'll leave the ethics out of it), but I think it is not as good an idea as a lot
by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
It's not a fundamentally bad idea from a practical point of view (like I said, I'll leave the ethics out of it), but I think it is not as good an idea as a lot of people think as it narrows the field so much. Also the signal that people get, unless they have worked directly with a person, rather than just chatted with them at a networking event or know them from their childhood, is I would argue "belongs to my tribe", rather than "good at x"
- heleninboodler 4y agoYes, that's totally fair. But I'll say that I've taken or been offered "networking-enhanced" job opportunities in startups a handful of times, and they were always people I knew and had worked with directly, or in one case, someone who was extremely close to a person I had worked with directly. "Chatted with someone at a networking event" seems like an extremely weak signal, and I'd be suspicious of that type of hire.