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I gotta say, this is a great move for founders + companies: Commoditizing your components will lead to downward price pressure on engineering wages. Also, it's
by _lex 11y ago
I gotta say, this is a great move for founders + companies: Commoditizing your components will lead to downward price pressure on engineering wages. Also, it's superficially great for employees too: apply to a common app and get prequalified for N companies rather than 1. But I doubt any of those companies will ACTUALLY change their hiring funnels, which means that this is just an extra, gratuitous step in the process. Perhaps there will be the benefit of being introduced to many hiring funnels at once, but that could have been achieved by an "are you hiring" email, or by checking out those companies' hiring websites.
- smil 11y agoHarj is not really interested in creating a service that "measures" a person's ability or "predicting" their future performance, because that's impossible to do. What they're really doing is creating a cargo cult tool that gives the illusion of being "objective" and using "data", so that they can sell the serivce based on this appearance, and later get bought out by LinkedIn or something. Perhaps they're doing a startup themselves because they had problems finding jobs due to hiring practices such as these.