leeny

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by leeny 14y ago
this is great!
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Offline services as discrete online "units"(techcrunch.com)
3 points by leeny 14y ago|0 comments
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by leeny 14y ago
Shoot me an email (contact info in profile) if you think you'd like to give interviewing a shot. Who knows, you might know more than you think!
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Hiring experiment: hiring experts in 20 minute chunks(apps.glittle.org)
75 points by leeny 14y ago|24 comments
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by leeny 14y ago
What do you mean by "basic programming"? What do you know already? What are you capable of building? I ask for more details because you may already have enough skills for find an entry-level engineering gig. A physics degree, in particu
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by leeny 14y ago
i should also mention, another surprising feature that came out as significant was the flesch reading ease of the resume ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabil... )
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by leeny 14y ago
great post. you're right on the money with how important it is to clearly explain what you actually worked on. i'm working on some statistical modeling of resumes that have come in to my company in the past year. surprisingly, thus far, pr
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by leeny 14y ago
cool idea. quick q: why have a redirect for each quote? if it's for facilitating sharing, there may be better ways to do that without destroying back button functionality.
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by leeny 14y ago
I work at a startup that's been around for > 5 years. At this point, we're stable enough to not require back-breaking hours (of course, people give a shit and work hard, but no one's sleeping under his desk). So far we've managed to av
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by leeny 14y ago
Harry of Harry O Menswear. It was located on 2nd between Howard and Mission for many years and closed down fairly recently. Last I heard, he now works at Nordstrom. He outfitted my husband and 3 of my close guy friends for my wedding, and
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by leeny 14y ago
It may be worth finding a company you admire and working there for a year to get a feel for things like source control, the dynamics of many people working on one code base, design patterns, why people make the architectural decisions that
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by leeny 14y ago
For what it's worth, I run hiring at a startup, and, based on some running stats I've kept, historically, candidates with EE degrees have not performed any worse in interviews than candidates with a more traditional CS background.
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by leeny 14y ago
If you're interested in potentially making the switch to startups and simultaneously exploring a full-fledged dev role, please shoot me an email. Contact info in my profile.
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by leeny 14y ago
Where are you located? I know a great suit guy in SF.
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by leeny 14y ago
This is awesome. Just quick suggestion. In your deck that shows sample resumes, the user's title is "Webdesigner [sic]". It should be 2 words. It's a minor point, but the spelling error detracts a bit from the professionalism of the site
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by leeny 14y ago
i do interviewing/hiring for a successful startup, and, historically, candidates with physics degrees have performed very well. the one concrete piece of advice i'd have for you is in line with what most of the comments are saying: build st
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by leeny 14y ago
TrialPay - Mountain View, CA (F/T, will cover relo) TrialPay is hiring back-end generalists. Small eng team. No bureaucracy. Really smart people. Actually making money. aline@trialpay.com Read more about us here: http://allthingsd.com/2012
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by leeny 14y ago
i'd suggest having one copy for when you apply to large companies where your resume may have to go through HR, and one copy for when you're applying to startups. for the latter, just submit something that is legible and has a good signal-t
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by leeny 14y ago
i really like that you have both a regular and short version of your resume.
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by leeny 15y ago
This is awesome. Would you like to stay in Austin area, or are you potentially looking to relocate?
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by leeny 15y ago
I'm a recruiter, and I agree completely that straight copy-paste jobs are very poor. Unfortunately, a lot of the time, there isn't necessarily enough information available about a person to make a truly personalized message -- I can't alway
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by leeny 15y ago
Unlike some of the other commenters, I like the vagueness a bit. I would have probably left you my email address until I found out it was a social network. In other words, if you're still not sure exactly what you're going to end up being
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by leeny 15y ago
Ask them some basic coding exercises. Mind you, I don't mean testing them on specific knowledge of a language (e.g. "does java always pass by reference?") but rather testing how they solve a specific problem. Iconic, overused example of t
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by leeny 15y ago
Steve, I think the idea is terrific and am a fan of yours. I'm a recruiter, but I'm very pro any solution that cuts the amount of noise in this industry. I recently posted about this problem here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377180
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by leeny 15y ago
That is very helpful, thank you!
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by leeny 15y ago
I'll throw in with everyone else. TrialPay is hiring. Small eng team. No bureaucracy. Really smart people. Actually making money. aline@trialpay.com
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by leeny 15y ago
I'm surprised _Snow Crash_ (or other Neal Stephenson stuff) hasn't come up yet. It's a bit dated, as it envisions what teh internets will be like from a 1992 perspective, but still a very enjoyable/amusing read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by leeny 15y ago
I think the random Capitalizations are Awkward.
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by leeny 15y ago
TrialPay - Mountain View, CA We're looking for back-end generalists. Some of the shiny, new things we're working on this year include managing huge volumes of data (~we're now getting 100 million unique visits a day), creating mobile apps f
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by leeny 15y ago
I'm in a somewhat unique position, in that I can comfortably run the first technical phone interview, in addition to filtering resumes before candidates even get to that point. However, this is definitely part of the problem, overall, becau

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