jroseattle

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by jroseattle 9y ago
That's basically the intent -- remove elements that sway us. And for sure, we're not _anti_ credentials. If you have earned your MBA, we're not looking to avoid you. We have some great colleagues who have earned degrees from
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The local-candidate attribute is for logistics, not filtering. We consider candidates both local as well as national/remote. The local-candidate attribute tells us if someone is around/nearby for onsite interview planning. (Nation
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No. We have yet to find a predictive correlation between GPA and performance metrics for our employees and their work.
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When we find a candidate we're interested in pursuing, we ask our recruiting operation to do two things prior to sending us the candidate's resume. 1) Remove the candidate's name/address. Replace with local-to-office = y
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These points are all very true. As a hiring manager and someone who would qualify in this study, here's my personal response to all of these: * Salary: you get what you pay for. (Senior folks -- you need to stand and deliver.) * Interv
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This is exactly the case. If anything different, I'd argue that many looking for "cool Seattle" are really lamenting "little Seattle". I moved here in 99, part of an influx at Microsoft. I interviewed there on a Fri
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by jroseattle 9y ago
I worked at AOL years ago when the company announced internally that the product would not be extended, but that the service would remain online. I was headed to the main campus (Dulles) when the announcement was made. Internally, they dism
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> "Lately" I'm originally from Missouri and would say it hit critical level over 10 years ago. The state has been in decline in terms of personal income, GDP growth, and a host of other economic indicators since 2009. This
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This is nothing new, and it didn't happen overnight. The prosperous-vs-declining areas have been moving in that direction for at least a generation. Perhaps more magnified/pronounced in one area vs another, but on the whole this h
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Speaking as someone who has seen the ebb and flow of frameworks galore on the front-end and back-end, I've found many devs swing back and forth between love and loathing. It's just a natural evolution of how we use tools, and quit
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When I first moved to Seattle, a friend of mine on the eastside gave me directions to his house. It included going through the intersection at NE 124th Street and 124th Ave NE.
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Not sure this methodology can be trusted all that much. The same headline, 4 months ago, would read: "Linux desktop market share now less than 2%".
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Cool idea. In terms of adoption, I found there was too much information to know what to do right away (like, instinctively.) As a suggestion, cut down on the UI components for choosing to book a class. As a comparative, take a look at the a
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This response has the tone of justification by exactly the very minds condemned as being closed. I read the article which attempts to establish as fact very clearly unsubstantiated subjective claims. Never mind the toxicity -- the dude is j
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by jroseattle 9y ago
> this is how you land good jobs at good companies for good pay. No, it's not. I get it as a negotiation strategy, but that's very short-term. Landing the job isn't as valuable as keeping the job, and your skills will defi
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Interesting article! This is pretty timely for me as someone hiring engineers right now. I've been in her shoes before, and know both sides of the table. For those reading this and identifying with the situation, allow me to challenge
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Best "no" conversation I ever heard. Us: how did you like our pitch? VC: we're a no, because we don't trust your unit economics. Us: fair enough. Could you please share some scenarios you've invested in where there
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Yep and understood -- it's what works best for your team. And yes, consistency is where the value lies. I've found these efforts to be successful as long as those guidelines are socialized among the team and it's treated in a
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by jroseattle 9y ago
"While developing a new project is like rolling on a green field for you, maintaining it is a potential dark twisted nightmare for someone else." There is nothing about this list of best practices that makes any applicable project
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I follow a simple principle: keep a seriously great work ethic, and don't sweat what you don't know. Trust me when I say most "innovation" -- aka the stuff you might not understand right away -- is really just a re-hashi
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> your comment applies to you and possibly the company you work for Very true. As always, your mileage my vary. > Companies foster career development less and less, and employees recognize this more and more. Yes -- which is why we ca
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> everyone else letting the ATS do it is going to harm our efforts indirectly. Yep, this. I actually see this as a future competitive advantage for us. I want us to be known for having a really positive experience for anyone who wishes t
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Yes and thank you, very good points. We are a larger organization, and getting past the HR filter is understandable. We have taken significant measures to improve that step with us, and it has yielded much better throughput on worthy candid
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> the script I used to algorithmically apply I'm not the same as everyone else, so take my opinions with a grain of salt. I'm a hiring manager, with many openings. To those who are considering this approach, keep this in mind:
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Given this is a means to an end, I'd like to see the overall team hired and the output they're responsible for creating, maintaining and extending. (I'm assuming that's something they do.) And then, of course, the code r
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Consulting pays the bills when software can't. It's all about the mix and getting to what you want -- not everyone is destined to be a product owner. Your advice is spot-on, although I would likely CAPITALIZE the words "build
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> It depends on scale and the skills available to you. Skills -- yes. Scale? That's kind of the point, nowadays. You don't need a large staff to accomplish scale. > I doubt it's the cause of their issues. Their eng&#x2F
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I remember when this article about the Etsy engineering department came out on Techcrunch 3 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481377 The items that jumped out at me: > The company owns and operates its har
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Looking at this move in terms of Instacart-vs-Amazon is most likely short-sighted. Amazon plays the long game just about better than anyone else around. I'm sure they care about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they view the Ins
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Communication is a behavior and act, not a personality type. The suggestion here is that it's ok for someone who doesn't communicate well to be accommodated in the name of diversity. The notion of "poor communicator" as

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