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by nateps 10y ago
We have designed interview formats that specifically test for them. This actually isn't that revolutionary, as manager interviews have always weighted heavily on evaluating soft skills. We took some inspiration from interview formats u
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As they begin to scale, startups also hire many of their highly paid workers, especially experienced executives. Our executive and management teams also have a roughly equal number of women.
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"Raise the bar" is one of our values at Lever, and it applies to the work we do, our own personal growth, and hiring. Just 4 years in, we are far from done building our culture and achieving our values. In truth, we will never be
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Yes, diversity of opinion is valued where it leads to better decision making. However, our focus on diversity and inclusion has more to do with employee engagement and making sure that individuals are able to bring their full selves to work
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What Lever did from the beginning was focus on building an inclusive culture first and let diversity follow. My recommendation would be to check out Project Include; they've invested a ton in putting resources together: http:/&#x
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by nateps 10y ago
Yes. The skepticism was less around whether the goal of D&I is a good thing and whether it might be more important for us to invest in other things for the success of our business. We believe that inclusion is worth the investment. At t
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We think one action that raised diversity of our engineering team was raising the bar to include evaluating for soft skills in addition to technical skills. In general, raising the bar and having a more rigorous process tends toward more di
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by nateps 10y ago
Hi! I'm Nate, another one of the Lever founders here. Have any questions about our efforts here? I'd be happy to respond.
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Agree this is definitely true in many cases, especially with applicants. Where it can be OK to give candidates feedback tends to be when you have gotten to later in the process with them and built more of a relationship. The article was mea
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At Lever, we write about what skills we are hiring for in a very different way we call an Impact Description. It outlines the role in terms of our expectations for 1, 3, 6, and 12 months into the job. Here is the description for our Backend
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by nateps 10y ago
Check out Lever (YC S12) if you want a tool to help with more of this: https://www.lever.co/hire I'm one of our founders and CTO, and we individually contact every applicant to our jobs. Lever has the ability to respon
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Lever (YC S12) is a modern Talent Acquisition Suite, and we hear from our customers that writing rejection emails is really difficult, especially when you want to leave a good impression. Here are some tips we wrote up: https://w
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Lever is hiring engineers in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring an engineering manager in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring an engineering manager in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Facebook testing a jobs feature, set to compete with LinkedIn, Indeed(techrepublic.com)
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15 Questions Technical Hiring Managers Love to Ask in Interviews(forbes.com)
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Lever is hiring an engineering manager in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring an engineering manager in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring an engineering manager in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring an engineering manager in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring engineers in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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by nateps 10y ago
Quill's OT type is compatible with ShareDB, which provides a simple to use backend that takes care of all this coordination. Here is a simple example of using the two together: https://github.com/share/sharedb&#x2F
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Lever is hiring engineers in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Lever is hiring engineers in SF – Join a 50/50 men and women team(lever.co)
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Agreed. It is likely to work pretty well with a format that is very close to plain text like LaTeX most of the time. Git's resolution strategy is diff-match-patch of text, so it is a good analogy. However, the thing that Git does that
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by nateps 10y ago
We've been developing ShareDB ( https://github.com/share/sharedb ), a JSON OT system, and using it in production at Lever for 3 years now. CRDT has some strong advantages in decentralized applications with a need to
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This is true. To preserve document validity and user intent, an algorithm designed for collaborative string editing will not always work correctly when applied to a markup document such as LaTeX, HTML, or Markdown directly. It is similar to
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by nateps 10y ago
Author of ShareDB ( https://github.com/share/sharedb ) here. ShareDB is a stable production JSON OT system that powers the entire backend for Lever ( https://www.lever.co/ ). All of Lever's apps, back
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by nateps 10y ago
Lever started as part of YC Summer 2012. From the early days we've building a company that earnestly values diversity and inclusion. As one of our founders, I'm so proud of the authenticity of this post!

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