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I disagree. This is a third approach—and a more public one—than we see from A-H and Greylock to help funnel talent to their portfolio companies. It's intended
by HistoryInAction 14y ago
I disagree.
This is a third approach—and a more public one—than we see from A-H and Greylock to help funnel talent to their portfolio companies. It's intended to serve as a first pass and binning for the company to then look for culture fit and second-round interviews.
This process lets FRC centralize talent and reduce at least some amount of time that founders have to spend on recruiting, at least beyond employees 1-5, mainly coming directly from personal circles.
- zanny 14y agoAs a recent college grad in CS looking for a leg into the industry, besides the HN monthly "who's hiring" threads, I feel like I'm missing out on probably 95% of potential companies I could work at just by them not using online job boards to recruit from. I feel like having some situation where employers can get a list of candidates in advance can open up opportunities better than my current workflow: Read email for responses -> check linkedin groups for various languages -> read rss feeds of Dice, Careers 2.0 -> write some cover letter emails, attach resume (with links to github, etc) -> hope for something back. Having some place to put myself in public view to possibly be contacted first sounds really nice.
- habosa 14y agoThat's true, I guess the differentiating process can happen in later interviews. I definitely think this is a step in the right direction.