Matt_Mickiewicz

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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
I've had quotes for $20-$30 (!) per person for lunch in SF...
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
The partners are based in Israel + Paris (no one in the US), which makes things complicated with time zones of they are investing in North American companies. A request for "weekly updates" is also quite burdensome on founders, an
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
The problem is most start-up founders like to hire in their own image... If you're not in your 20's, don't drink alcohol everyday, don't have a degree from Stanford/MIT/UC Berkley, and want to get home to see y
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
That's definitely the way to go. Most of the VC-funded startups in SF that we're working with are more than happy to pay for a Southwest flight and a hotel room upfront, rather than doing the reimbursement thing. As a general rule
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
We analyzed $500 million in job offers, and seed stage companies are the only ones still trying to hire senior software engineers for $120K or less... see the chart here: https://devauc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/2013
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
A huge portion of the "talent shortage" is simply technical interviews that assume the exact opposite, and that only the best 1% of technical talent will do when you're running an ecommerce site selling unicorn horns.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
I can confirm, I've heard this from drivers as well. As an anecdote, the one time I left a 1-star review, the next day I had a 20-min wait to get a car. Not sure if it was bad luck or I was getting penalized for leaving a bad review...
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Some great quotes in there... "Job descriptions heavily larded with keywords make it virtually impossible to find good candidates. But every day that an impossible job requisition remains unfilled, the employment system vendors make mo
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Full-time recruiters would make around $100k-$120K at an agency in San Francisco, and be expected to place 1-2 candidates per month. The standard fee charged to companies is 25%, though that is often negotiable. At Hired.com we charge 15% (
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Very true... Out of the 560+ companies on Hired.com, only 4 or 5 are actively looking for C# talent. It might be worthwhile investing in a 9 or 12 week course to pick-up rails at Hackbright Academy, or one of the other programming intensive
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Exactly... There's very few people left who are getting paid under market. Google alone has 900 recruiters who scour the entire world with an open checkbook for the best talent, while offering some of the highest comp packages in the i
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Unfortunately, Hired isn't in Tel Aviv yet, otherwise I'd love to help!
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Yep, you nailed it. This is part of the "unicorn hunting" that we see at Hired.com. We've even seen hiring managers rejecting candidates because they didn't use a particular JavaScript framework, or they haven't shi
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
You've summarized a lot of the points I made to the Fastcomapny reporter for the article... and in the process you described a good number of seed stage companies, including ones coming out of YCombinator.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Their background was impressive enough that they where able to raise venture funding for their start-up. Many times they have built or worked on something technically impressive, that became big & well known (Google Maps, Facebook timel
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Ding, ding, ding. You hit the nail on the head. The technical interviews & hiring criteria are often not aligned with what the company fundamentally needs in order to accomplish its goals. The founders/CTO are often rockstars, and
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
"They have a smaller job pool to choose from, but in the tech industry (context of most HN discussions about H1s), there really isn’t a shortage of employers willing to file." To quantify, on DeveloperAuction we've found that
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Hopefully the recent news articles about Google's data-driven analysis of these techniques will start moving things in the right direction... there is ZERO predictive value to many of these questions, and they bring with them a tremend
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
My experience at DeveloperAuction shows that some companies actually view it as a point of pride that they reject 19 out of 20 Engineers they interview and that it's near-impossible to pass their rigours technical screening. It seems
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Fits the bill perfectly... it could have been the education start-up, seeking mentorship from the founder who was in that space.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
I think that is why they are hedging their bets by offering yellow taxi service and UberX. Classic strategy... conquer the premium market first (BMW 3,5 and 7 series) then start going more mainstream (1-Series BMW) once the brand is establi
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
This is a fantastic interview, and highlights the most common mistakes that I see early stage companies making: 1.) Seeking someone in their own image who is willing to work 18 hour days, including an unwillingness to look at candidates who
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
I never use travel agents for standard things (hotels/flights/cars) and only hire them for long, complex itineraries (2 countries, 8 cities in Asia over 4 weeks, etc.). Both Conde Nast Traveler and Travel+Leisure Magazine publish
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Clearly, the answer is no. BUT, and this is a big BUT, having multiple personal projects does make you much more marketable to potential employers. If you don't have a well known University or a well known company on your resume, havin
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
1. Be Decisive & move with a sense of urgency. 2. Don't be cheap. Not worth missing your product roadmap to save $20K/year or having to spend 6 months re-architecting your entire app because the early people weren't senio
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
When Google pushed out their interview-results data this year, one of the big findings was that there is NO SUCH THING as a good interviewer. To quote the NY Times interview with Laszlo Black of Google - "Years ago, we did a study to d
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Hey Clifton, Matt here, co-founder of DeveloperAuction. Great insights in your comments above. I generally agree that the "Talent War" is largely self-imposed: unwillingness to interview candidates outside of a 25 mile radius or r
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
There's definitely believe there's room in the market to displace contingent recruiters, create efficiency, drive down costs, and create a much more pleasant experience for both sides of the transaction. One key with job seekers:
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
They raised $10.5m... probably at a $30-$40m pre-money valuation for their later stage, $8m round. Not a great outcome, especially if the investors had liquidation preferences.
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