Peroni

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by Peroni 2y ago
Hiring people (mostly engineers) has been my full-time job now for about 15 years and I found myself emphatically agreeing with a lot of Matt's criticisms of modern hiring. Most tech interviews are as relevant to job performance as if
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by Peroni 2y ago
If you have 700+ resumes after initial HR filtering then your HR filter is horrific.
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by Peroni 2y ago
>Sites like the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNN, Forbes, and others are showing very few new pages being indexed in the past hour by Google Search. Is this only affecting news sites then?
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by Peroni 2y ago
Considering it takes 1,000 years for 1m of peat to build back up, I'm not sure it's reasonable to call it renewable.
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by Peroni 2y ago
Automata | Principal Engineer | Hybrid (UK) | Full-time | £110k-£140k + bonus + equity Born from a world-leading research lab, Automata is transforming the way labs work with open, integrated automation. We work with labs across the world t
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by Peroni 2y ago
Might not meet your criteria of affordable but I'm pretty sure Helsinki has a much lower grass pollen count than the rest of mainland Europe. Great city, great tech scene, great people, super safe, etc.
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by Peroni 3y ago
>how long after the last interview did it take to extend an offer or deny you? If you're certain your last interview was a final interview, you should ideally hear something within 24hrs. Allowing up to 48hrs is polite. Anything bey
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by Peroni 3y ago
Yet another staggering example of "Rather than looking at any productivity data, I have instead decided arbitrarily that I personally prefer when everyone is here so I will spend a ridiculous amount of money on enforcing my preferences
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by Peroni 3y ago
I'm not exaggerating when I say that HN changed my life. When I first started using the site almost 15yrs ago I was a junior recruiter barely making ends meet. I learned a huge amount about the tech startup world through HN and when I
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by Peroni 3y ago
Most of my clients reject job-hoppers without even interviewing them but the definition of job-hopping is worth exploring. In my experience, the perfect balance is that you spend at least 3yrs before moving to a new company. The sweet spot
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by Peroni 3y ago
>This is abusive, lazy, and easily solvable issue Agree with the first two but not the last point. The types of companies you're referring to are almost always large and not particularly fast moving. Swapping out their archaic appli
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by Peroni 3y ago
>Is how long it takes to submit your generic CV a valuable statistic? Not at all. If anything, you want people to take their time when applying. In almost every A/B test I've ever run, the more questions I introduce into the ap
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by Peroni 3y ago
>Something needs to be done about young children accessing pornographic content The solution for this exists. It's the same solution that prevents young children from accessing a bottle of bleach and drinking it. Parental responsibi
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by Peroni 3y ago
They are using the concept of protecting children as a smokescreen. Speak to anyone that works in Trust & Safety teams and they'll tell you that countries like the UK are already under-resourced and overwhelmed with the volume of C
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by Peroni 3y ago
It's the worst job market I've seen in the UK since 2008. A huge number of companies made significant redundancies and the market is saturated with extremely talented people so there's not only more competition for decent opp
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by Peroni 3y ago
>All these “I work better from home” folks never mention how they prove it to the company. How do those in the office prove it? Are you looking at their screen/output over their shoulder? The only physically noticeable measure of &q
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by Peroni 3y ago
>I don't feel comfortable taking on mortgage despite having multiples of needed deposit This is great. It means you have more financial security than most in the event of a worst case scenario and the financial aspect appears to be
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Writing Effective Cover Letters(talentstuff.com)
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by Peroni 4y ago
This is categorically the right solution and the startups I work with that still have some form of office have all shifted to this structure. Take-home technical tests and virtual live tests are dead in the water.
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by Peroni 4y ago
Scythe by Neal Shusterman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954189-scythe
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by Peroni 4y ago
Agreed. I'd push "work your network" a few steps further and advise people to shamelessly leverage your network. If you’ve found a job that interests you or even simply a company that appeals to you, get on LinkedIn and see i
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by Peroni 4y ago
>We’ve used publicly available job boards and self reported data points on European data pay to collect data for 500 jobs across 260 companies. Unfortunately this isn't a particularly useful methodology. Pay data isn't a legal
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by Peroni 4y ago
Unlikely for free. There's an entire industry built around this premise. One example: https://www.alphasights.com/
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by Peroni 4y ago
It's definitely excessive. Realistically, an efficient internal recruiter should be hiring a minimum of 20 people per year to justify their role. If Zapier are planning on at least doubling their headcount, then a team of 40 makes sens
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by Peroni 5y ago
Permutive (YC S14) | Scala Engineer x5 | REMOTE (UK) | Full-time | £80k-£120k Permutive’s privacy-safe infrastructure helps publishers and advertisers reach full audiences safely and in-the-moment, and keep control of their first-party data
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by Peroni 5y ago
Permutive (YC S14) | Scala Engineer x5 | REMOTE (UK) | Full-time | £80k-£120k Permutive’s privacy-safe infrastructure helps publishers and advertisers reach full audiences safely and in-the-moment, and keep control of their first-party data
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by Peroni 6y ago
This is the best answer. If your military service would count against you, is it really going to be a healthy environment for you to work in?
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by Peroni 6y ago
Permutive (YC S14) | Software Engineer (JavaScript, SDK) | UK | Full-time | £60k-£70k We believe that computing at the edge represents a sea change in the way technology will be built and enabling edge computing for the Web is a key part of
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by Peroni 6y ago
Permutive (YC S14) | Scala Engineer x5 | London, UK | Full-time | ONSITE | £70k-£100k Permutive are developing a next generation data platform for a world with a trillion devices, and we think applying functional programming techniques like
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by Peroni 6y ago
Those VP numbers aren't quite right. The average for VP is around £160k and go up to around £190k.

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