Matt_Mickiewicz

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by Matt_Mickiewicz 11y ago
According to this article, YCombinator took the entire Series Seed round for AirBnB -- https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 11y ago
The book is great - highly recommend it.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 11y ago
Congrats!
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 11y ago
At least it has earnings, AirBnB is probably in the red.
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Puppies and Data Science for Developers(eventbrite.com)
2 points by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago|0 comments
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The Story of the London Underground Map(sitepoint.com)
1 points by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago|0 comments
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
A job, yes. Your dream job, maybe not. You don't say where you live... or whether you have any internships under your belt. Some hiring managers at tech companies (especially early stage ones, say sub 200 employees) look down upon new
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
This is exactly what motivated us to start Hired. The entire industry is rife-full of dodgy players, grey-hat tactics, and bait & switch games. I agree 100% that everybody should demand full transparency, about salary, company name, ben
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
I see this all the time... people who have CS Degrees, worked as programmers for 5, 6 or 7 years and then they go and start interviewing and flunk over and over again. Unfortunately, almost everybody feels overconfident and ignores our advi
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Not one company has invited you to come onsite for a day-long interview to code alongside the team? You should be upfront with the employer. "I think the best way for me to showcase my skills would be to come onsite for a day, and tack
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Thanks - title is updated.
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Hired Launches Engineering Management Vertical(techcrunch.com)
14 points by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago|3 comments
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
We've gotten 1100+ companies to disclose salaries upfront on our marketplace, which is what all the numbers in the blog post are based on... I definitely agree that keeping salaries secret until the very last second - when you've
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Since Hired is a marketplace, it's a lot easier for us to analyze data because: 1.) Data is stored in a central database, and not across dozens of email accounts, LinkedIn Recruiter accounts, etc. 2.) Working with over 1100 companies,
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Thumbs up. I've heard about a few instances of the past year of startup founders treating their employees really badly... from lying about work hour expectations, to the details of the day to day job in order to get someone to sign on
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Congrats Dan & Pete! It's been amazing to watch the growth of Optimizely from seed stage to the massive success story it is today.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
LinkedIn bought Rapportive.... Rapportive captures the contact info of every person whose email you open (or who you write to).
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
The vast majority of tech books sell fewer than 5000 copies. A typical advance is $4000 - $10,000 (for well known authors), split into several parts. Royalties vary, 8-15% is standard. Programatic Programmers is much more generous. $1000 ad
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Early exercise makes the most sense for seed stage companies where the exercise price is still low... at companies where you have to spend $50K or more to exercise, I've seen loans being handed out by the company to its executives to m
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 12y ago
Yep, we offered this to all of our employees at Hired after our seed round, but before our $15m Series-A. The majority took the early exercise option once they understood it. It's a massive lift for our team (based on tax savings) when
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
How much does that leave for the avg. employee, many who probably took pay cuts for the promise that their equity would be worth millions?
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Not sending a formal rejection email is a sign of an company that is still immature in developing its HR function. Unfortunately, we see this more often than not at seed stage companies.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
At Hired, we found that candidates who are on H1B visas get 1/3rd fewer job offers. So yes, technically transfers are easy, but you definitely reduce the number of potential employers.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Net Present Value is always an interesting calculation... You can run the math on YC companies relatively easily: http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-odds-of-success-2013-... "37 of the 511 companies that have gone
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
You're absolutely right. Remote is a non-starter for 99% of start-ups... and a lot of companies that are selling pants online are searching for PhD-level engineering talent to run their shopping cart.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
I'll take those dozen friends -- http://www.hired.com/recommend :)
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
"Third, if you’re going to recruit outside of your network (usually a mistake, but sometimes there are truly no other options), focus on recruiting outside of the valley. There are great hackers all over the country, and many of them c
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
What you don't realize, is that there's an entire industry of companies that scrape & aggregate developer profiles and sell them to recruiting agencies. Check out Gild.com, Sourcing.io, 3Sourcing, Entelo, etc. There's no
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Want to Hire Engineers? Better Get it Done in 16 Days Or Less.(fastcolabs.com)
3 points by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago|1 comments
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
They are also funny because they don't work... The number of positions filled through job boards has dropped by more than half in the last decade. Last year, only 1.3 percent of hires came from Monster.com and 1.2 percent from CareerBu

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