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It was free form. There wasn't much to it other than on staff recruiter got the names of your bros and then harassed them with email. It annoyed people, but onl
by rdouble 14y ago
It was free form. There wasn't much to it other than on staff recruiter got the names of your bros and then harassed them with email. It annoyed people, but only as much as any other non engineering thing annoyed people.
We were supposed to get bonuses but I don't think anyone did except the founder's girlfriend. We didn't actually get many people hired this way, so at least everyone was on the right track of only trying to hire those smarter than yourself.
- tptacek 14y agoOk, so that's not really "going after them with crazy intensity"; it's punting the problem off to your employees. Have you ever seen this strategy done well?
- rdouble 14y agoIt wasn't entirely pushing the burden on the employees. Each place had an ops guy or on-staff recruiter who just got the names from us and took it from there. I've not seen it done effectively first hand, but I've heard it's the way to go.