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Show HN: Sidedoor – Find your next engineering job through a trusted referral

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I'm unclear how this will solve the underlying root cause of the coding interviews -- if you are matched up with a stranger, how are they supposed to know whether you are all talk or whether you can deliver?

Referrals from people you have worked with before make sense - you know their work. But having a conversation with another engineer and expecting that to become a referral sounds odd - such interactions don't give the same level of knowledge of one's work as having actually been on the same team.

@codingdave - The goal for us isn't to solve the underlying root cause of coding interviews. In our previous companies, we'd still always do whiteboard style coding interviews with referral candidates. The goal for Sidedoor is to skip conversations with recruiters and get fast-tracked directly to an onsight. A conversation with an engineer is the best way for a candidate to understand

1. The technical challenges at a new company. 2. The team dynamic at a new company.

Aha, gotcha - that does make more sense. I may have been over-estimating the relationship it builds because of all the other discussions surrounding interviews these days.

Thanks for the clarification.

Hi All!

We’re a group of engineers that have worked in the tech industry for the last 10 years. Over that time, we all realized that the best engineering teams that we’ve all worked on have been close, tight knit groups that had a lot in common.

Every company that we’ve worked for has had an employee referral program, but the effectiveness of those programs pales in comparison to the costly external recruiter led solutions out there. Recruiters ended up making a ton of money and taking large finders fees for performing a task that was better suited to our own employees. Our goal with Sidedoor is to turn employees at every level of the company into the most effective recruiters.

If you’re looking for your next job and want to work for a great tech company, sign up as a candidate today.

sounds like a useful service, however, I tried to signup as a candidate but the buttons do not function.

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