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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Many Sides

Big Companies

Small Companies

Medium Companies

Not Quite Companies

Companies Run By Pros

Companies Run By Kids

Companies Run By CommitteeCompanies ...

Unique You

Amongst Many Of You

How Many?

240 Engineering 102 Editorial548 Designer124 Research

~ 6 a day

This is where ...… I start boring you with a story about how we filter resumes ...

People

#1

What kind of people?

InspiringHigh Performing + Team Player

Right Brain + Left Brain

Lead Generation@engineer => cold email to our CEO

@engineer => an early hiring website experiment

@pm => viral job post on tumblr

@engineer => referral via friend of CEO

@mobile engineer => referral via friend of CEO

@engineer => hiring website

@engineer => worked together with someone above

@engineer => worked together with someone above

@engineer => worked together with someone above

@engineer => random encounter during Hurricane Irene

@engineer => cold email to CEO

@engineer => cold email to jobs@

@engineer => referral via friend

@engineer => met @engineer at a tech talk

@engineer => met @engineer at a conference

Materializing a Lead

We Know You

You better know us!

Onsite Interview

2-3 Engineers1 Non-Engineer

45 minutes 1:1Lunch / Coffee

Standup

How to Decide?

Does the candidate raise the bar?

Will I be more excited to come to work if the candidate sits next to me?

Clear Yes or No, not Maybe or Hesitations

Written Feedback: YepYep,

Seemed like a strong developer and a very humble individual. I talked to her about her work on project Blue Beam for a while and it was clear that she made a substantial contribution to it, specifically the software infrastructure for the launcher. I described a simplified version of our current architecture and asked her to think up some ways to get better performance from our back end and he came up with some good ideas, including refactoring the API and rewriting the caching layer to use Russian Doll caching. She was very interested in how we measure the success of new features or changes on the site and had some good ideas in that area as well.

Written Feedback: NopeNope,

While very energetic and clearly quite ambitious, the candidate's fundamental understanding of computer science seemed weak for a college graduate in CS. For example, when asked what's a b-tree answered that it's a kind of plant.He deflected almost every technical question to a more general discussion, rather than addressing the specific problem at hand. When I asked him to describe a specific time when he identified and fixed an application performance problem, he described something completely unrelated to application performance - a bike race.

Gushing Referencesfrom very successful individuals

Offense vs DefenseForce objectivity via ranking

Separate performance from culturePay attention to tone not content

References are also pitch opportunities

Decision-Making Process

RejectionThank you for taking the time to interview with Artsy. We have decided not to move forward.

We think you're very energetic and ambitious. You take initiative and are generally curious. Things like your involvement in your school’s programming club and your personal project X speak for themselves. However, your fundamentals in CS and the responses to technical questions were below the bar that we have set for a candidate in this position.

However, we definitely want to stay in touch and would be grateful for the opportunity to re-evaluate working together in the future. In the meantime, I'd love to see you succeed at another NYC company. I am serious about this, so if you have some startups in mind that you would like to be introduced to, or would like us to suggest some, please let me know and I will connect you with the right people.

Thank you,

Your Resume

SimpleShortFactualAccurateConsistentCoherent

Objectives“To obtain a full time position that matches my enthusiasm, constant effort and efficiency.”

Github and Open-Source

Lead, Driven and Managed

X-Pert Skillz

Career Changer is a Strength

Have Someone* Read Your ResumeAnd Give You Honest Feedback

* Someone = Who Hires a Lot of Engineers

You Definitely Have What It TakesMeet A NYC Company That Wants You

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