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I've heard startup founders pretending to hire, like it's a common best-practice. Personally, I don't think it's very honest, and I'm going to wonder what othe
by neilv 2y ago
I've heard startup founders pretending to hire, like it's a common best-practice.
Personally, I don't think it's very honest, and I'm going to wonder what other honesty they have flexibility about.
I wonder whether any of the third-party job-posting sites has figured out ways to say you're not much hiring -- or only hiring/promoting internally, or only filling a funnel for possible future openings, or only hiring if a rare unicorn comes along -- without that looking negative to people who only want simpleton metrics.
Maybe the cooling of "growth" theatre startups will make it OK to sound like you're not "growing" right now.
- 0x000xca0xfe 2y agoWhen it happened at my last job it was definitely foreshadowing other malevolent behavior.
- alx_the_new_guy 2y agoThe most obvious approach I can think of would be some sort of post-application questionnare and comparing that to the companie's job posting, sort of, stats. Say, the company has a lot of job postings, but the all the applicants say they're auto-rejected. That's a decently clear indicator. Also, if you link your linkedin/stackoverflow/github or something, there could be a more or less automatic way of evaluating you as a candidate in general and your fit for this/similar position, which could be fed back into the post-interview questionnare processing. Obviously, not that good a way to evaluate candidate fitness, but a way nonetheless. Rings privacy alarm bells, but oh well. Someone could build a decentralized version of it which would work via a browser extension. And, actually, 3rd party hiring companies have a way better relationship with the companies hiring than with the candidates, so I very clearly can see this mechanism weilded against us.