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by leeny 13y ago
We didn't adjust for native vs. non-native speakers. Despite that, we did end up hiring several people from outside the U.S. In general, I think native and non-native speakers should be held to the same communication bar. No one is de
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by leeny 13y ago
Hey guys, I'm the author of the original post. Happy to answer any questions. Also, for some more discussion, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5919819 (last time this piece was on HN).
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by leeny 13y ago
"But a smart recruiter would realize that some measurable chunk of endorsements are selected by people who have no clue as to your skill set or level of ability in that particular area" I don't use LinkedIn to do keyword se
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by leeny 13y ago
I don't think endorsements are meant to be true endorsements. If they were, LinkedIn would have written a weighted endorsement system by now (where an endorsement from someone with expertise in some field means more than, say, an endor
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by leeny 13y ago
I guess he never anticipated that "the best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."[1] [1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/why-this-tech-...
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Silicon Valley hiring is not a meritocracy(blog.alinelerner.com)
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by leeny 13y ago
What companies actually require people to have a GitHub and LinkedIn to apply? I've been doing recruiting for about a year and a half, and I've never seen this be a hard and fast prerequisite. I guess I could see a situation where
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by leeny 13y ago
how is this wildly different than evernote? is it support of multiple types of documents (spreadsheets etc)? i was looking at the bullets under "what quip does differently", and i feel like evernote addresses all of those things
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by leeny 13y ago
Good questions. 1. So, once someone was "in" (as in, they got to interview stage), we didn't consider any of these factors. Everything after getting into the interview process was purely about interview performance. As it h
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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data(blog.alinelerner.com)
27 points by leeny 13y ago|10 comments
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Building an engineering internship program(blog.alinelerner.com)
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by leeny 13y ago
Great job! My site has been a terminal for a while. I keep meaning to add new commands, but for now I'm just collecting stats on what people type :) http://www.alinelerner.com
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Ember.js on the Twitch Directory(blog.twitch.tv)
1 points by leeny 13y ago|0 comments
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by leeny 13y ago
What I really hate is the incentive structure that drives a lot of the bad behavior people associate with recruiters. At the heart of the matter, the incentive is economic, and LinkedIn's features are just a function of that. However, that
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by leeny 13y ago
It depends on what the recruiter's goals are. If you're trying to build a brand and establish longterm relationships with people, then, yes, spamming the world is not in your interest. If you're working for an agency, have a quota, and are
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by leeny 13y ago
I guess I don't see being clever and resourceful synonymous with being evil. I don't know what the other guys are doing, but I try to use LinkedIn only as a reference (e.g. "where is this person working now, and how long have they been ther
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by leeny 13y ago
Bernal Heights (south of Mission but great, provided you stay north of Cortland Ave) and Dogpatch (universally great and very close to downtown/SoMa)
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by leeny 13y ago
I'm a recruiter, but I hate LinkedIn. In some ways, that's a gross exaggeration because LinkedIn does one thing very, very well: it standardizes people's work experience and puts it all in one place. Once you get used to reading LinkedIn
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by leeny 13y ago
It would be awesome if the graphs enabled mouseovers (e.g. bar chart where you can mouse over each bar to get additional info). Unless I missed something and this is already a feature...
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by leeny 13y ago
It depends on which neighborhood you'll be living in and whether you'll have a garage. I've had a car the entire time I've lived in SF (8 years), and it's been great (makes it possible to be spontaneous). However, I've always lived in neig
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How different is a BS in Computer Science from a MS when it comes to recruiting?(blog.alinelerner.com)
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by leeny 13y ago
Wait, why do recruiters pose as applicants? Is this a common problem? Also, Parse (and a few other companies whose names escape me now) have been doing this for a while. https://parse.com/jobs (scroll down to "Apply to Parse!")
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by leeny 14y ago
Hiring. There's something fundamentally frustrating about knowing that all the data you need to make the perfect decision about where you should work is out there but that getting even a small piece of that data involves a series of nondet
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by leeny 14y ago
Have you guys thought about applying this model to f/t roles (i.e. not just contract)? I know contract work may make more sense because of the shorter stints/more business, but perhaps with enough volume, this is something that could work.
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by leeny 14y ago
poor experimental design/interpretation. great PR. if only the shoes themselves somehow harkened back to the rebellious brand image that this press created...
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by leeny 14y ago
Rue La La is a flash sale site (a la Gilt Groupe, Amazon's MyHabit, and so on). Their inventory changes pretty quickly (something like 48 hours, I think), and different brands are featured during each iteration. NastyGal doesn't appear to
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by leeny 14y ago
This is awesome. I did want to report a few bugs I noticed: - Sorting appears to be broken. Specifically, sorting on the salary field appears to neither sort the data is currently visible nor all the data (i.e. the global max or min). - So
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by leeny 14y ago
Like OP, I like being around technology, and I'm pretty socially ept, and here, I make a case for my chosen calling -- technical recruiting. Unlike many others in recruiting, I didn't fall into it because I didn't have other options. It w
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by leeny 14y ago
I really like stuff that creatively combines two worlds for sake of simplicity. Not sure if this particular one is going to take off (security/fraud concerns etc.), but I do think that these combinations are all blips on the way to an inevi
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by leeny 14y ago
TrialPay - San Francisco - F/T TrialPay is looking for someone to own the user-facing portion of our product. Basically, you should think like a PM, have the vision of a world-class designer, and code like a beast. Asking for one person to

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