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by leerob 8y ago
/u/rm999 had experience with both spamming and personalized messages and had more success with the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19186331
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by leerob 8y ago
> The big problem for the good guys is they somehow have to get paid while maintaining all these low probability relationships. Not only that, they actually need to speak intelligently about every technology and business in the market. T
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by leerob 8y ago
Thanks for the insight. Some really good points here, especially: > When I (or our internal technical recruiters) spam out a job we are giving more people a chance at the job, and are introducing fewer personal biases. That is something
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by leerob 8y ago
> It often seems that recruiters think they are doing one a favor by offering you this shiny new job. Exactly. The people they're trying to recruit already have a job. So they're going to need to sell us on the position. _Espec
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by leerob 8y ago
I'm not sure why the title of the posting was changed. The title of the article is "Technical Recruiting is Broken".
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by leerob 8y ago
I understand the current recruiting ecosystem is largely the way it is due to scale. Companies need a lot of talent and they need it last week. Hence, blasting out thousands of emails (e.g. the Amazon recruiter I mentioned). I’m simply tryi
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by leerob 8y ago
Absolutely agree. Plus, I’d rather set the bar high for hiring than settle for mediocrity.
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by leerob 8y ago
Not necessarily. Yes, as a company grows and it works to hire faster, it’s probable the quality of hiring/recruiting will decrease. That doesn’t mean that startups or small company have recruiting perfected.
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Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position(leerob.io)
151 points by leerob 8y ago|136 comments
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by leerob 8y ago
> What kind of metrics? > 99 times out of 100 people will not be able to correctly anonymise metrics. It's open source - I would just take a look at the code.
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Things I've Learned Building Next.js Apps(leerob.io)
1 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Getting Started with Dart and React (Updated for Dart 2)(leerob.io)
1 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Building a UI Component Library with Styled Components(medium.com)
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Benefits I Care About in 2019(leerob.io)
5 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Loading Placeholder Like Facebook with Sass(leerob.io)
1 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Using Mapbox with Next.js (Instead of Google Maps)(leerob.io)
2 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Space Invaders in Python with a modern twist(github.com)
4 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Why I Create Open-Source Software(leerob.io)
6 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Build vs. Buy(leejamesrobinson.com)
1 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What do you use to monitor errors?
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by leerob 8y ago
Des Moines, IA: https://www.fastcompany.com/3056081/why-i-based-my-tech-comp...
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Ask HN: What is your essential software/hardware list?
1 points by leerob 8y ago|0 comments
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by leerob 8y ago
So far most of the articles I've read have been formatted correctly, but I'm guessing it would miss out on things like syntax highlighting, which can be really helpful in a code dense article.
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Optimizing My Digital Content Consumption(leejamesrobinson.com)
4 points by leerob 8y ago|2 comments
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by leerob 9y ago
Nice work. I created something very similar with Python ( https://github.com/leerob/facebook-data-analyzer ). It looks like yours touches on some things I didn't get to in mine, like ranking messages. Awesome idea!
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Analyzing 10+ Years of My Facebook Data(leejamesrobinson.com)
8 points by leerob 9y ago|1 comments
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by leerob 9y ago
Location: Des Moines, IA (Exploring relocation to SF) Remote: Partial would be nice, but not full-time. Willing to relocate: Yes. US Citizen. Technologies: Dart, JavaScript (React, ES6), Python (Flask, GAE - Google App Engine), AWS (Lambda,
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by leerob 9y ago
What's the advantage of this forum over Stack Overflow?
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by leerob 9y ago
> Who in the world would run right out and buy a new iPhone if their last one became unusable in one year? A lot of people? I'm sure there are tons of people who do this where cost isn't an issue.
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by leerob 9y ago
Maybe you're just framing it wrong. I'm sure you have a variety of positive attributes about yourself. Being authentic doesn't necessarily mean being the optimal candidate. Everyone has their idiosyncrasies.

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