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by aprdm 1y ago
It’s a good question but I don’t think so, short of requiring a cover letter with the application but I bet I would face a similar challenge there. The candidates and CVs do look like what I’m looking for, until I interview them …
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by aprdm 1y ago
It used to be that just quickly parsing through CV I could separate candidates that are worth interviewing. Nowadays there seems to be way more CVs that are well written and crafted for the role. Some of the initial screening I did was clea
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by aprdm 1y ago
Where did I say that ? I am replying to a post that mentioned it. I definitely want to hire the best matches to the role I am offering tho, but practically will settle for the ones that seem good to work with and that can get the work done.
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by aprdm 1y ago
How do you get the best 30%? 30% of 1k is still 300
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by aprdm 1y ago
In principle I agree. I worked in a similar industry until recently and it was much easier. Also because the influx of CVs for an opening was much smaller, I could actually read them into detail and have conversations. Because they were 10s
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by aprdm 1y ago
Yeah I agree, but I feel then we become very bias towards referrals and people who recruiters already trust - many developers despise recruiters for whatever reason. I haven't seen a better approach tho.
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by aprdm 1y ago
TLDR: Ci/cd for services on CSPs
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Ask HN: Tips for hiring? It has been difficult
28 points by aprdm 1y ago|37 comments
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by aprdm 1y ago
Check out isaac sim from nvidia
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by aprdm 1y ago
That's a deeper question that only you can answer. I can only say that your thinking based on how you phrased it doesn't really lead to happiness in general
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by aprdm 1y ago
She can try to reach out to possible mentors / people on Linkedin. A bit like cold calling. It works, people (usually) want to help and don't mind sharing their experiences / tips. I know I have helped many random linedin col
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by aprdm 1y ago
I got into CS because I liked games. I wouldn't know how to ping a host by year 2, in fact, I hated CS and only finished it because my father insisted. Wasn't until I got my first internship by year 4 that I started to work/e
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by aprdm 1y ago
Yep. Agreed. I do keep notes on people & recurring meetings (as a leader) using Joplin which helps me to recap for the next meeting. Very lightweight bullet-points. That's it.
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by aprdm 1y ago
If entire countries runs on Whataspp (including business) (e.g: Brazil) it surely adds a lot of value ?
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by aprdm 1y ago
Yeah I should go one step deeper, on big tech, it also depends a lot on the org inside the company sometimes.
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by aprdm 1y ago
This really depends on the company. There are many companies where eng has way more weight than PM. And that eng aren't so divorced from customers. Even big tech.
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by aprdm 1y ago
I feel this is a pretty cynical view. We can all be adults and understand it is a business relationship. The "reward for loyalty" varies greatly per company, but I would like to see it defined. I have worked on 12 companies since
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by aprdm 2y ago
Why do you feel like you need to keep it up ? The foundation of computing hasn't really changed too much in the last 20 years. Master the foundations and maybe read this site once a week ?
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by aprdm 2y ago
send them a personal email or linkedin msg
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by aprdm 2y ago
I love this. I will bookmark / see what I can do once it stops raining everyday in Vancouver
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by aprdm 2y ago
Can you share a bit more about Bezos email ?
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by aprdm 2y ago
Not true in my experience being on both sides of the equation
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by aprdm 2y ago
There are thousands of CVs per opening in some companies, how do you expect people who barely have time to read the CVs to also give individual feedback ?
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by aprdm 2y ago
Why is it brute force and why is it bad ?
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by aprdm 2y ago
99.9% of the companies in the world will never need more than 1 beefy box running postgres with a replica for a manual failover and/or reads.
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by aprdm 2y ago
can use ansible (or ssh) and copy a tarball (or python package or pull docker container)
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by aprdm 2y ago
Networking with people you know in your career
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by aprdm 2y ago
Well I got to director in big tech with an org about 35 people and now I have around 15 people but bigger scope, and others have done with similar numbers too. Depends on the culture I guess, some cultures are all about empire building, oth
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by aprdm 2y ago
Even within company, you want to have network laterally and upwards in different orgs, that is necessary for higher scope of work usually
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by aprdm 2y ago
> 1.) Scope and headcount. It's really all about headcount - that is the qualification for being a Director. Increased scope is how you get the headcount. Scope != headcount, in matrix orgs (like big tech) there are directors with v

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