jaclynmling

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How to Hire Well(hatchways.io)
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Dear Hiring Manager, by Hatchways (YC S19)
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
- we generally give an average salary to expect depending on your skill level/ experience level, so both the candidate and employer going in with a similar expectation. -at this time we don't offer health insurance but some of our
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
I was really touched to read your story. Thank you for sharing your challenges, and particularly around how you felt the only other option was to go back to school just to get the opportunities one would get by being a 'student'.
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Yep definitely a fair point. Our assessments are building out full projects (so it's less easy to share answers/ get one person to do one question and another person to do another). Secondly, we do meet each candidate for a 1-hour
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Right now we mainly onboard employers manually, and hoping to create the other side of the market in the near future.
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thank you for sharing and it sucks that you feel you 'wasted' years. I'm glad you found your way into tech and wishing you the best as well :)
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Hey Pete this is great! Thanks for sharing. I'll reach out. Would be awesome if there was some way to help each other :)
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Appreciate your comment! Will look more in-depth and perhaps reach out in the near future to pick your brain further (probably after the yc demo day rush though :P) Great website and mission. Wishing you all the best too!
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Love this analogy. Everyone showcases their skills in different ways, and we definitely want to help more people shine in whatever run they perform best in.
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
I would guess in most cases candidates can't fully be their authentic self or perform at their best during the interview process, so for me I'm not sure I can boil it down to "fit". Our hope is that we can remove the tra
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. Glad to hear you were able to overcome the traditional barriers. Great idea to explore design as an industry we can expand into in the future!
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thank you for your note on LinkedIn. I hope one day you'll come back and share your non-traditional story as well!
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
In some cases employers we work with are very open to offering visas for potential migrants, but because we mainly focus on startups at the moment this isn't super common (yet!)
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. I hope your career transition has been rewarding since!
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thank you :)
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
I do think there is huge value in internship/ trial employment at all levels. We've personally hired a senior engineer this way-- she was working full-time and trialed with us for a few hours a week so she could get a better sense
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Really appreciate that you, as a non-traditional candidate, promote non-traditional hiring now that you are an employer!
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Great questions. 1. Codility (to my knowledge) skews more short coding challenges, whereas ours are more practical project-based assessments. We're trying to assess "can you build" versus testing computer science concepts 2.
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thank you for this. It's a very difficult problem to solve because many employers are stuck in their own ways and going to go to big /enterprise companies and telling them they can't look at resumes if they work with us is us
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Great ideas-- never thought about virtual career fairs, but that sounds very interesting. You're definitely right that undervalued AND entry-level candidates is a hard sell most of the time-- but more employers need to start giving out
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thanks for signing up! We're still working on the dashboard side for employers so I'll be contacting you shortly to set up a meeting to share more. High level-- we're trying to appeal to startups so our fees are much more acc
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Thanks for your comment. To address your questions: -no the timer does not start until you hit 'start' button! -you are coding in your own environment an uploading a zip file once you're done -Naturally, we have definitely a
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Hey there, thank you for sharing your cousin's story. I think you're definitely right that a great place to target are programs outside of top 10 CS programs. I do believe we could bring the biggest benefit to these new grads. Do
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Great points and comments here. Few things to add: -one big benefit for our candidates doing our take-home project is that they only need to do one assessment that can they qualify them for dozens of companies. Rather than have to do 5-6 di
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
Really like your story. Thanks for sharing! Really hoping that the more engineers, like yourself, that get into organizations and spearhead efforts to reduce bias, the easier it will be for non-traditional talent to break into the field. Be
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
We believe that trial employment at any level is effective and beneficial to both sides. For candidates it allows them to get a better feel of the work before committing, and for employers, you get a better sense of the person's skill
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
This is great point! At this time unfortunately, we don't have the capacity to make that happen, but we are looking into partnerships to help make that possible for foreign workers
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
We initially launched this in Toronto and have recently expanded into major US cities like SF and NYC
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by jaclynmling 7y ago
That's great to hear - send us a message at hello@hatchways.io and we can set up next steps

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