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by leeny 11y ago
Author here. The issue is that, much of the time, people reading the paper just look at proxies (for speed reasons and because they're disincentivized to select wild cards). You can do a fantastic job of explaining your projects, but i
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by leeny 11y ago
I'm an engineer who spent a few years doing recruiting for top Bay Area startups. For the kinds of companies, I recruited for, if your school is top-tier, having that brand on your resume is going to open doors. If it's not, then
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by leeny 11y ago
This is superb. I've been trying to talk people out if getting MS degrees in CS as a way to learn to program for a while and have always recommended self-study like this if they have the stomach for the whole autodidactic thing. Going
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by leeny 11y ago
Founder of interviewing.io here. I'm an engineer who did recruiting for a few years to understand how exactly hiring is broken. interviewing.io is my attempt to fix things.
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by leeny 11y ago
Look, the harsh reality is that you're largely an unproven entity with no pedigree. Your ACM achievements are impressive, but they're being weighed against the fact that, outside of that, you're a relative unknown. It's
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How to interview your interviewers(blog.alinelerner.com)
8 points by leeny 12y ago|0 comments
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by leeny 12y ago
This is heartily depressing. If you're as good as you say you are, I'd love to help you. Contact info in my user profile. (Overuse of credentialing in engineering hiring is one of my biggest pet peeves and something I'm doing
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If you’re an engineer who wants to start a recruiting business, read this first.(blog.alinelerner.com)
8 points by leeny 12y ago|0 comments
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by leeny 12y ago
Sure, but it's consistent (I think ~15% or so based on some anecdotal evidence), so you can still use the data effectively.
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by leeny 12y ago
I really like salar.ly -- it's a collection of salaries of people with work visas (they have to report their salaries) that acts as a decent proxy for salaries as a whole.
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by leeny 12y ago
Aline here. I got permission from everyone whose resume I used in this experiment.
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by leeny 12y ago
I prefer singing the note in perfect pitch
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by leeny 12y ago
Re the p value, I was saying that my threshold for p was less than 0.05. p itself was quite big. But I can see how that's unclear. Edit: removed the p threshold
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8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist(blog.udacity.com)
6 points by leeny 12y ago|0 comments
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by leeny 12y ago
It's true. I compare it to shouting into a void. The void does not often answer back.
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by leeny 12y ago
It's funny; you almost fall into both categories. Potentially not looking great on paper (not sure if this is actually true) and being in a niche space like NLP. If you want to chat about how to market yourself or try to figure out whe
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by leeny 12y ago
What did these refusals look like? How were you presenting to these companies? I'm surprised; if I approached companies and offered them talent without asking for money, they'd jump all over it. Or was the issue that this person w
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by leeny 12y ago
This is an interesting idea. I expect there may be some opportunity here, at least while working remotely isn't ubiquitous.
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by leeny 12y ago
Heh, I wish 10X engineers got paid 10X more.
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by leeny 12y ago
I'm not sure we're actually disagreeing. OfferLetter.io works precisely because you're focused on the negotiation part. There, your incentives are aligned (it's always in your interest and the candidate's to get the
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Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist(blog.alinelerner.com)
121 points by leeny 12y ago|94 comments
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by leeny 12y ago
fixed!
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by leeny 12y ago
Author of the original post here. Happy to answer any questions!
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by leeny 12y ago
author here. thanks; fixing this right now.
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by leeny 12y ago
Oh, and interview prep as well.
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by leeny 12y ago
Ping me if you want to discuss further, either in a purely academically sense or more practically. aline@alinelerner.com
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by leeny 12y ago
I was throwing out the idea that I would handle someone's job search. Basically, you would tell me what you wanted in broad strokes, and I would keep looking until I found the right job for you. I'd also take on the grunt work tha
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by leeny 12y ago
I'm a recruiter. Before that, I was an engineer for 5 years. What you're describing sounds really good, but it's likely not going to happen. For the record, I agree with you completely and try to work in the manner you descri
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by leeny 12y ago
I used to work with Taser, and last I heard, data was getting uploaded wirelessly to cloud storage while the device charged. Not sure about when cameras have to be on/off.
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by leeny 12y ago
heh, disutility of resumes is a very possible result here.

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