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No hiring process is perfect, but when your company’s hiring process is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign. If I wanted this I
by moregrist 3y ago
No hiring process is perfect, but when your company’s hiring process is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign.
If I wanted this I’d have stayed in academics, with its 20-page CVs and multiple statements of purpose.
At least there if you win the tenure-track position lottery, and then the grant lottery, you have a good shot at winning the tenure lottery and getting some job security doing something you (probably) love.
Oxide is a startup with a finite runway.
Hard pass.
- steveklabnik 3y agoAny application process is a two-way street. It is absolutely fine for you to decide to opt to not apply. Maybe someday we'll have a different process, or maybe it was just never meant to be :)
- Paul-Craft 3y agoIs it really a two way street when a candidate spends multiple hours only to get back a generic rejection email? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134589
- very_good_man 3y agoSeeing as AWS is probably the king of the BS leetcode interview track, your aping their behavior in this area as the ANTI-AWS does not bode well for you. I hope I'm wrong here as AWS needs serious competition.
- steveklabnik 3y agoWhat behavior are we aping? Your comment brings up leetcode, which we don't do, so it cannot be that. Sorry for misunderstanding.
- nickik 3y ago> is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign. Many people stay at a company for longer then they stay at college. So that doesn't seem that crazy.