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This is a little tone deaf and lacking deeper thought. Surface level stuff like x color buttons are ugly is not really helpful. Telling a guy who has been focus
by keithwarren 12y ago
This is a little tone deaf and lacking deeper thought. Surface level stuff like x color buttons are ugly is not really helpful. Telling a guy who has been focused on this for months he should spend more time dogfooding - again, not helpful.
What really got me though was complaining that you could not upload a resume. Seriously, give it some thought. Parsing non-structured data in an accurate way is a very hard problem and I would venture getting highly accurate results on 80% of resumes would take hundreds or even thousands of man hours to build a system, getting it on 90% or more could be exponentially more difficult. It simply is not worth the investment of time unless you have a breakthrough technique, and if you have that - well that is your startup, not a job site.
Feedback is awesome, but not everything that crosses your mind is worth sharing.
- timcederman 12y agoI've given it three years of thought, particularly on the resume parser. It's not tone deaf either. Do we want to give everyone who has built something a pat on the back, or do we want to help them build something awesome? Also, you complain about that my feedback is too hard to address, but then simple stuff like non-ugly buttons is unhelpful? re: dogfooding - often folks will build something and then not holistically test it. You don't need a user study to try something from end to end and pretend to be a user. Just a helpful reminder to do the simple stuff to make something great.
- keithwarren 12y agoI don't think patting people on the back is useful but if you really want to help him build something awesome, be specific. Your buttons are ugly because they are too small, the text is hard to read and the back button is actually slightly wider than the next button, even though they are joined together. Back is also red which tends to denote a destructive action that cannot be undone, a yellow might be better. ^ that is feedback. Saying your buttons are ugly is not helpful feedback.
- tibbetts 12y agoIt's all the right stuff to be thinking about. Pull from linkedin or something if you can't extract from a resume. Or hire some low wage work at home english majors to manually extract the resume data and offer people a "build my profile for me" option where they just send a resume. And it's easy to spend a lot of time on dogfooding. If people don't want free advice, they wouldn't need to post here.
- eggbrain 12y ago> Pull from linkedin or something if you can't extract from a resume. I definitely do this, check it out in action here: https://i.imgur.com/j4aNIPP.gif https://i.imgur.com/j4aNIPP.gif PDF/Word resume support will definitely be something in the pipes, so keep watching http://blog.truejob.com http://blog.truejob.com as I'll be adding a bunch of features in the next few weeks.
- justintbassett 12y agoI actually assumed there were libraries written for that sort of thing already -- so many company sites let you upload a resume and parse it.