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To add: I can very well imagine this process isn't suitable for FAANG, so I can understand their university exam style approach to a degree. It's easy to arm ch
by fhd2 2y ago
To add: I can very well imagine this process isn't suitable for FAANG, so I can understand their university exam style approach to a degree. It's easy to arm chair criticise, but I don't know if I could come up with something better at their scale. These days, I'm mostly engaged by startups to help them build an initial team, I acknowledge that's different from what a lot of other folks hire for.
- mnky9800n 2y agoIs your job consulting for hiring technical positions?
- fhd2 2y agoI have a consultancy - we mostly do development, but I also do quite a bit of "consulting CTO" work. Quite often, that means helping with hiring. But hiring is nowhere near my full time job, thankfully :D
- mnky9800n 2y agoThat’s cool. My main job is being a research scientist but i also work at a computational science consultancy that essentially builds numerical simulations for hire along with other software consultancy jobs. I occasionally have been asked to serve as an outside consultant for hiring data science positions. I’ve been wondering how to grow that a bit into more regular work because I enjoy it. Any thoughts on that?
- fhd2 2y agoWell, my contracts pretty much all came through my network, someone recommending me, and then clients recommending me, and so on. Not sure if I just got lucky or if this actually works, but my first step would be to tell some relevant folks you know that you're doing this now, see if they have any advice or know someone who might be interested. Another approach would be to ask the consultancy you work with if they want to add this service you can provide to their portfolio, see if it's something they could sell to existing or new clients. However, these days, people seem barely OK with paying for a recruiter. They think just because more people than usually are looking, they get to just lean back and great candidates show up. IMHO, if anything, it got more difficult to hire. More noise to work through, people in existing roles are more reluctant to switch, candidates hustle more because they need a job etc. I absolutely think it's a useful service. But I don't know if it's easy to market.
- adastra22 2y agoWhy not? Plenty of large organizations hire this way. My first employer is bigger than any FAANG company by head count, and they hired this way. Why is big tech different?
- lmz 2y agoThe desire for a scalable, standardized scoring mechanism so they can avoid lawsuits.
- fhd2 2y agoWell, I respect the scale and speed. My process was still working fine at ~5 per month. I have doubts it'd work with orders of magnitude more. There's a lot of intuition and finesse in there, that is probably difficult to blindly delegate. Plus, big companies have very strong internal forces to eliminate intuition in favour of repeatable, measurable processes.
- michaelt 2y agoWhen you're operating a small furniture company, your master craftsmen can hand-fit every part. Match up the hole that's slightly too big with the dowel that's slightly too big, which they put to one side the other day. When you're operating a huge furniture company, you want every dowel and every hole the same size. Then any fool can assemble it, and you don't have to waste time and space on a collection of slightly-too-large dowels. To scale up often means focusing on consistency and precision, and less on expert judgement and care.
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