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Companies "bending over backwards" to hire women? : girlsgonewired
I explain the basic "diverse pool; neutral hiring" approach.
mypostings  hiring  discrimination 
5 days ago by mcherm
Software Developer Salaries
US government data on average software developer salaries.
via:reddit  hiring 
23 days ago by mcherm
I am in a difficult spot and I am afraid, I have to pick a company/job that I might not like temporarily. : ExperiencedDevs
I post about job-hopping.
mypostings  hiring  blogworthy 
december 2022 by mcherm
Underdog Devs
Consider whether I can help.
programming  hiring  prison 
november 2022 by mcherm
Someone is pretending to be me.
Taking the identify of a programmer with a good score on Github and pretending to be then in interviews.
via:HackerNews  security  hiring  personal_net  identitytheft 
september 2022 by mcherm
Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter | by Alex Chesser | Index
Reply to recruiters with a form letter asking for the position details and salary. That way you end up connecting with the 1% of recruiter outreach that is from competent recruiters instead of being spam.
hiring  recruiting  via:reddit 
september 2022 by mcherm
Resume Worded - Free instant feedback on your resume and LinkedIn profile
A site that will score your resume and LinkedIn.
useful  hiring  via:reddit 
august 2022 by mcherm
How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code | Freaking Rectangle
Instead of having developers write code, have them read some. It works better in an interview format.
interviewing  hiring  via:reddit 
july 2022 by mcherm
Amazon’s workforce turnover is so high that it could run out of people to hire by 2024 - Vox
For warehouse jobs, in some locations, Amazon is running out of people to hire while competitors offer better pay & conditions.
amazon  hiring  via:reddit  by:vox 
june 2022 by mcherm
At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews - The New York Times
Several people who were involved claim that Wells Fargo would interview women or non-white candidates for positions that were already filled, just to pad their interview numbers.
WellsFargo  evil  hiring  via:TheGuardian  by:nytimes 
june 2022 by mcherm
IBM's asshole test — johnpublic
Not sure it's true, but this person claims IBM has a step in their interview process where they just check if you'll act like as ass under pressure.
hiring  IBM  via:reddit 
may 2022 by mcherm
Misidentifying talent
Use this the history of baseball scouting to comment on how hiring for IT positions is often very biased.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
february 2022 by mcherm
Hi LinkedIn connections! I am ready for my next journey with your
amazon  hiring  via:HackerNews  personal_net 
february 2022 by mcherm
Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens | Kevin Burke
The author gripes about phones screens that are a single coding exercise (without a compiler). I'm not sure the alternative he suggests is better, it just has different flaws.
hiring  softwaredevelopment  via:HackerNews 
december 2021 by mcherm
Negotiating Salary After Business Revenue Doubled. : ExperiencedDevs
I post about how to negotiate salary. This one is worth capturing for my blog.
mypostings  blogworthy  salary  hiring  via:reddit 
august 2021 by mcherm
NDA Expired – let’s spill the beans on a weird startup – Terence Eden’s Blog
hiring  via:HackerNews  personal_net  ethics 
july 2021 by mcherm
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer - haseeb qureshi
How to negotiate a job offer -- especially at a tech firm. Pretty well written.
via:HackerNews  hiring  negotiation 
may 2021 by mcherm
Euler's FizzBuzz
A closed form solution for the FizzBuzz problem. Clever.
programming  math  puzzles  hiring  via:HackerNews 
march 2021 by mcherm
But we only want to hire one developer: ProgrammerHumor
For making fun of the desire for "full stack developers".
TalkIdeas  hiring 
february 2021 by mcherm
Résumé Raiders
A resume service by Dave Fecak. Based on my previous experience, I would trust him.
hiring  resume  DaveFecak 
february 2021 by mcherm
California’s Salary History Ban: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
California has a law prohibiting employers from asking salary history when hiring and requiring employers to truthfully answer what the salary range for the position is if asked.
hiring  law  via:reddit 
december 2020 by mcherm
Technical phone screen superforecasters - interviewing.io blog
Some phone screeners are better than others. So, to maximize efficiency in hiring developers have a small number of your best do phone screens.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
november 2020 by mcherm
6 red flags I saw while doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days - interviewing.io blog
A good list of things to watch out for as someone being interviewed who is trying to assess the company.
hiring  interviewing  via:HackerNews 
september 2020 by mcherm
Nervous about getting into tech : girlsgonewired
A back-and-forth debate I was involved in around encouraging a woman (and person-of-color) in tech.
mypostings  hiring  womenintech  racism  sexism 
september 2020 by mcherm
IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration | Hacker News
I explain in a comment how asking for more years experience than it is possible to have isn't just a funny error but is it real sign of a problem in how we do recruiting.
mypostings  blogworthy  via:HackerNews  hiring 
july 2020 by mcherm
AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage - Last Week in AWS
AWS sues an executive who leaves to work for Google, saying it violates his non-compete. This blogger helps point out just how badly that shreds Amazon's reputation.
amazon  noncompete  law  via:HackerNews  hiring 
june 2020 by mcherm
Kerbal Space Program 2 Release Disrupted by Corporate Strife - Bloomberg
Well, that's a new approach to hiring! A game company was contracted to make Kerbal Space Program 2. Then the contracting company pulled the contract and offered to hire all the developers.
via:slashdot  hiring  gamedev  kerbal 
june 2020 by mcherm
Ranking Interview Questions by Cram Score | Jeremy Aguilon
Recommended on Reddit, this person has sorted Leetcode questions according to their value for interviewing.
programming  interviewing  hiring  via:reddit 
april 2020 by mcherm
Compare salaries and career levels across companies | Levels.fyi
A site that compares levels at major tech companies against each other (and with salary, of course).
salary  hiring  career 
february 2020 by mcherm
Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short - Triplebyte Blog
Actual study (no results shown here) says use easier questions to balance the false positives and false negatives.
hiring  softwaredevelopment  via:slashdot 
february 2019 by mcherm
Escape the Color Box
Instead of taking the personality quiz, he used a random number generator to fill in the values. He asked friends and coworkers how well it described him and they said about 80% accurate.
psychology  via:HackerNews  hiring 
december 2018 by mcherm
The Science of the Job Search, Part VII: You Only Need 50% of Job “Requirements” – Cheatsheet — TalentWorks
Past about 50%, meeting more of the job requirements doesn't actually improve your chances of getting hired.
hiring  via:reddit 
december 2018 by mcherm
Python interview questions. Part III. Senior
I actually knew some portion of the senior level questions, which was cool.
programming  python  interviewing  hiring  via:HackerNews 
december 2018 by mcherm
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters
Amazon trained an AI model to classify resumes based on their previous hiring. Then later they discovered that the model had negative weights on terms like "women" (eg: "women's chess club"). They finally scrapped the whole model.
ai  bias  amazon  hiring  womenintech  via:HackerNews 
october 2018 by mcherm
What companies mean by culture fit - Triplebyte Blog
"Culture fit" often means soft skills (communication, ownership, positivity). A few rare companies actually have unique personality requirements. But outside of these things, it's mostly a "friend test" which can easily mislead and/or introduce bias.
hiring  via:HackerNews  interviewing 
september 2018 by mcherm
Name and Shame: IBM : cscareerquestions
A very negative review of IBM's hiring process.
hiring  IBM  via:HackerNews 
august 2018 by mcherm
'But didn't you write an embedded OS?' – Huan Truong's Pensieve
Don't overcomplicate things; use simple tools if they are sufficient.
via:HackerNews  softwaredevelopment  hiring 
may 2018 by mcherm
An employee whose job was to be sacked | The Vision of the Pension Playpen
His job was to pretend to be fired so they could put on a show before complaining customers.
stories  hiring 
march 2018 by mcherm
What I wish I knew when I became CTO – SketchDeck developer blog – Medium
A few good things, including "don't rewrite; use 'Boy Scout rule': leave it better than you found it".
hiring  startup  via:HackerNews 
february 2018 by mcherm
Amazon's "Offer": Why the Company Pays Workers to Quit - The Atlantic
Amazon uses Zappos' idea of paying employees to leave.
via:HackerNews  amazon  hiring 
february 2018 by mcherm
Wait A Second!: Plaintiff unlawfully fired for signing unlawful confidentiality document
A court case that illustrates when firing someone on a pretext (who recently committed a protected act) won't work.
law  hiring  via:WaitASecond  personal_net 
january 2018 by mcherm
The Science of The Job Search, Part I: 13 Data-Backed Ways to Win – Cheatsheet — TalentWorks
Specific things to do with your resume that the statistics show will help get you hired.
hiring  resume  jobs  via:reddit 
january 2018 by mcherm
We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
On hiring: always looking for people that seem perfect may just expose unconscious bias toward "people similar to me". Instead, do a (paid) audit project.
hiring  JoelSpolsky  via:JoelSpolsky  programming 
september 2017 by mcherm
Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking
Instead of offering parking, Lyft charged a rate (set by bidding) for parking and paid employees some money to cover it (or cover their alternate transportation). They liked it, but no one else was willing to give it a try.
economics  benefits  hiring  via:HackerNews 
august 2017 by mcherm
How to get 70 job interviews in 17 days
via:HackerNews  hiring  personal_net 
july 2017 by mcherm
Career Monogamy: The Awkward Tech Sin of Longevity – Nemhouse
He worked at Adobe for 20 years and talks about how drastically the job changed and tackles the myths and truths about "you should move every 3 years".
career  hiring  adobe  via:HackerNews 
june 2017 by mcherm
Gender Bias In Hiring: Interviewing as a Trans Woman in Tech by February Keeney | Model View Culture
Trans please got lots of job offers as a man, none as a woman. An A-B test for IT hiring.
via:reddit  gender  discrimination  hiring 
march 2017 by mcherm
Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews… or how what you do after graduation matters way more than where you went to school – interviewing.io blog
Some actual data.
hiring  research  via:HackerNews 
december 2016 by mcherm
'Clean your desk' : My Amazon interview experience
This is unbelievably bad interviewing practice on Amazon's part.
hiring  amazon 
december 2016 by mcherm
On racist intermediaries in hiring processes | David R. MacIver
hiring  racism  personal_net  via:DavidMacIver  DavidMacIver 
november 2016 by mcherm
Squad devs blast Kerbal Space Program studio for high crunch and low pay | Latest news from the game development industry | Develop
Absurdly low salaries for programmers. Oh, and subsequently they all quit.
softwaredevelopment  hiring  salary  via:HackerNews  KerbalSpaceProgram 
october 2016 by mcherm
Wait A Second!: How far does New York's anti-felony retaliation statute reach?
A case involving NY's law against firing someone for having a felony record.
via:WaitASecond  law  hiring  prison 
october 2016 by mcherm
Apple engineer rejected from job at Apple store Genius Bar
Retired now, this former tip Apple engineer never heard back after applying to work at the Apple "Genius Bar".
discrimination  hiring  via:reddit 
september 2016 by mcherm
My Interviews with Amazon | Aaron Krauss
amazon  personal_net  hiring  via:reddit 
july 2016 by mcherm
How the “what’s your current salary?” question hurts the gender pay gap — Medium
If you pay attention to previous salary when setting salary then you persist existing sex discrimination in salaries.
hiring  sexism  via:HackerNews 
may 2016 by mcherm
The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method
One technique for not naming a salary.
salary  via:reddit  hiring 
march 2016 by mcherm
Zenefits CEO rescinds job offer on Quora
hiring  personal_net  via:reddit 
september 2015 by mcherm
The One Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires — Medium
I came to this article prepared to disagree with whatever they suggested based on little more than the title. But I can't disagree this is exactly the way interviewing should be done.
medium  via:reddit  interviewing  hiring  softwaredevelopment 
september 2015 by mcherm
Asymmetric Information in Wage Negotiations: Hockey’s Natural Experiment (2013) [pdf] | Hacker News
Hockey started publishing salary info. Immediately, wages became higher, correlated to performance, and consistent across teams when previously none had been true. Salary secrecy hurts workers.
via:HackerNews  science  economics  hiring  jobs 
july 2015 by mcherm
Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone | Grist
They will hire anyone who applies, no questions asked.
via:HackerNews  business  hiring  economics 
march 2015 by mcherm
How to hire good people instead of nice people – Quartz
Perhaps this will never work but it's an interesting idealized view of how to do hiring.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
january 2015 by mcherm
So.... How screwed am I after sending THIS E-Mail to my boss and His boss? : cscareerquestions
I opine that if you want to gripe about not getting a raise, you should bring evidence that you're worth more.
hiring  via:reddit 
june 2014 by mcherm
Questions I'm asking in interviews - Julia Evans
A good list of questions for the candidate to ask the prospective employer.
hiring  via:reddit 
january 2014 by mcherm
Robby Leonardi | hey@rleonardi.com
A really cool resume.
hiring  resume  via:reddit 
october 2013 by mcherm
There are many discussions here on HN about company hiring procedures. Company h... | Hacker News
Actual research on hiring, and what it says: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, with its legal rules about hiring, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability test.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
october 2013 by mcherm
Dear Startups: Stop Asking Me Math Puzzles to Figure Out If I Can Code | Today Emma Learned:
I got several programming jobs because I could solve math problems. But I couldn't program.
hiring  via:HackerNews  programming  math 
october 2013 by mcherm
HistoricallyDiscriminatedAgainst
The groups we want to be extra careful about including are the historically-discriminated-against. Eg: women, blacks in South Africa (a majority), but not men in nursing or green-eyed developers.
race  sexism  hiring  martinfowler  fowler  via:MartinFowler 
october 2013 by mcherm
I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job - Thought Conduit
The company made it easy for others to contribute. He started doing so and eventually became an employee.
softwaredevelopment  opensource  programming  hiring  startup  via:HackerNews 
october 2013 by mcherm
The false proxies of mirror images | David R. MacIver
David MacIver says "don't hire based on hobbies, it may discriminate". I reply "we need the signal anyway, just keep in mind that it may discriminate". I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the position I express here.
blogworthy  DavidMacIver  via:DavidMacIver  hiring  mypostings 
october 2013 by mcherm
EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition · GitHub
The most complicated version of fizz-buzz.
funny  programming  hiring  via:reddit 
september 2013 by mcherm
Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data | Aline Lerner's Blog
ACTUAL RESEARCH on what features in resumes best predict success in finding a job. #1: spelling and grammar. #2: can tell what they did. Degree, quality of school, aside projects.
softwaredevelopment  career  hiring  jobs  research 
september 2013 by mcherm
Coding Johnson - He got 1%, we can't hire him
The smartest candidate "failed" the personality test. He was not hired.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
august 2013 by mcherm
Recruiters Are Pretty (and How to Find One) | job tips for geeks
If you're a potential worker, here is how to find a recruiter.
hiring  via:DaveFecak 
august 2013 by mcherm
I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume and landed a job – Quartz
His first name is "Kim". He was getting no responses to his resume added the word Mr in front of his name, and after that got many responses.
discrimination  gender  hiring 
july 2013 by mcherm
So You Got That Job Offer - Google Drive
How to ask for more with no competing offer.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
may 2013 by mcherm
Lied to my manager at work about my boyfriend. Need advice. : lgbt
mypostings  gayrights  hiring  personal_net  via:reddit 
april 2013 by mcherm
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment - Matthew O'Brien - The Atlantic
Research shows that employers would rather hire someone with no industry experience than hire someone who has been out of work for 6 months. That's just wrong.
hiring  via:HackerNews 
april 2013 by mcherm
The Economist explains: How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects? | The Economist
People who install something other than the default browser that came with the OS have a statistically significant better success rate on the job.
hiring  browsers  via:reddit 
april 2013 by mcherm
Recruiter Spam
Someone who's keeping statistics on spam from technical recruiters.
hiring  spam  via:HackerNews 
march 2013 by mcherm
Salary Negotiations: Whats possible when there is no more money?
If you can't offer more money, offer other things like flexible hours or time off when the surf is over a certain height for someone whose hobby is surfing.
hiring  management  via:HackerNews  ArticulateVentures 
march 2013 by mcherm
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