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Hired.com. If you don't want to deal with a lot of BS and are able to make decisive choices, you can't go wrong. Otherwise, you end up interviewing at places w
by Cymen 11y ago
Hired.com. If you don't want to deal with a lot of BS and are able to make decisive choices, you can't go wrong.
Otherwise, you end up interviewing at places were recruiters are just trying to get another body in the door and half of them are not prepared.
I was very skeptical but it got the job done.
http://join.hired.com/x/XfELvW http://join.hired.com/x/XfELvW if you want to toss me a referral but honestly, it doesn't matter to me either way. The quick decisive moment is the hard part but Hired.com really does take care of the rest.
Also Mattermark is hiring and I would encourage anyone interested in full stack or dev ops to apply: http://mattermark.com/jobs/ http://mattermark.com/jobs/ (other business roles are on there too)
Why Hired.com is good: if you are a bad negotiator, you'll learn very quickly that you need to filter out jobs early on based on salary expectation. Nobody talks to engineers/geeks about that. But once you go through the hired.com process, you realize that hey, it's an open field -- you can establish up front what your criteria are in terms of compensation and discuss that early in the potential interview process. Because time is money, hiring is complicated and compensation is all over the place. You are the best judge of your value. It's complicated. But you are also the best judge of what you'll accept in terms of tradeoffs (cash vs equity).
Everyone single person who contacted me via my Hired.com profile was a founder (or a recruiter pretending to be the founder). Either way, I got a great summary of what they were looking for along with up front knowledge of the compensation (so I knew we were on the same page). I got 11 or 12 offers and I did 4 on-site interviews. I ended up at a company that I am very happy with.
So I recommend it to those that don't have a perfect network. With a great or perfect network, you can likely do better. But like online dating, Hired.com exposes you in a way that optimizes presenting your value to potential employers. I think that most of us engineers do not have a perfect network and/or do not know how to leverage that network so it is a huge win.
- sagivo 11y agoi don't think you understand the question. the problem presented is about the interview itself and not about how to find a place to interview.
- Cymen 11y agoI do understand. Going through Hired is a dramatically accelerated process of the regular interview cycle. So while you might get those annoying interviews, you won't have time to dwell on them because you'll also get some great interviews and it is all packed into a week or two instead of dragging on for months on end. Perhaps in other words, you are guaranteed a few bad interviews. Interviewing is very random. I have sat on both sides of the table. I have sighed when other interviewers have bought up minor quibbles about otherwise excellent candidates. There are a lot of really bad interviewers. Getting interviews at a bunch of places that really desire to hire you somewhat lowers the crappy interview percentage. Yet another way to put it is you are practically guaranteed a bad interview. It is best to accept that and move on. I had what started out as a really great interview process go bad when I went on-site. It happens. The randomness of the interview process and the fact we're all human/fallible practically guarantees at least one bad experience. My bad experience really bruised my ego but ultimately, I realized it was a good experience too when I framed it in the context of the overall experience.