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Hire Me, You Cowards

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Hi everyone! This is for all those that have had enough of tech recruiters not understanding them or fancy websites claiming they have found the way to do recruitment right.

We have a simple claim: that there's a growing number of engineers that have ridiculous skills and that they're not getting the attention and the jobs they deserve, and that we can mitigate the problem, well maybe I should say I since it's only me.

You can check out the website here: https://hiremeyoucowards.com/ and if you feel you are one of these engineers please fill the candidates form so that we can interview you. If you have feedback, insults, etc. happy to read them here :)

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Personally, I don't know if I would ever even consider hiring from a site called "hire me you cowards". It just seems incredibly self important and individualistic.

Honestly, I find that having some basic semblance of cooperation and teamwork skills is much more important to productivity and success than having the best engineer ever. The best engineer ever could probably do everything much faster than the rest of the team -- however I've seen first hand how this kind of attitude slowly chips away at the team spirit due to their self-centeredness. It's surprising how quickly their toxicity can affect a work environment to the point that it affects your whole team's work performance & retention.

I'd rather have a chance to hire an idiot (who will be easier to get rid of) than the certainty a genius who can do the work of 2 people, while alienating everyone else and deftly skirting the line of employment law. It's not a coward or a fear based thing. It's basic logic and efficiency on a whole. This is why some of the best engineers and scientists get passed up -- they're just toxic individuals that are impossible to work with.

I want to emphasise that this isn't saying that I think most brilliant engineers have poor teamwork skills. I just think that the language of this website perfectly describes the kinds of engineers you DONT want. Selfish and self important.

Unless this is parody, in which case, why bother posting this here?

Oh please. All engineers are arrogant, usually, proportionally to their skills.

That does not mean that they do not understand team work or other engineers being different from them and it does not mean they can't sit down and coach other engineers. They do, but when the other engineers are too lazy to improve themselves, the manager values quantity over quality anyway, what can they do?

In many situations, a mix of arrogance and self-confidence it's the only defense a skilled engineer has against the mass of unqualified idiots steering a project the wrong way.

Passing up brilliant people at this level does not solve the problem: they are brilliant enough to become competition.

It's precisely about the cowardice of accepting that there are insanely bright and skilled professionals, right in your team or in your company and one way or another you have to deal with them, or they will deal with you.

“ Science still says interviews get you a ~50% chance you hire an idiot. ”

You’ve got to be kidding? This entire site comes off as incredibly pretentious. I agree with your premise - hiring isn’t perfect but this is god awful execution.

Once you read the testimonials from Jane Doe, John Smith and Clark Kent, you'll surely change your mind.

No, you can google that. Studies show that 50% of hires are underqualified

So you get started by insulting your potential customers, then reveal that you yourself actually don't have any customers. Your differentiator in this crowded field is... negging?

Took a look at the page - I haven’t cringed this hard in a long time

While I like the concept, I get the feeling that you're taking the aggressive posture an inch or two too far. If this is a serious business concept, you're running the risk of being mistaken for parody.

If this is parody, well done.

Yeah, a little bit .

Reading the comments, it seems the filler testimonials are the issue. I am really curious to find out how they'd react with real ones.

"If you have feedback, insults, etc. happy to read them here :)"

"Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries"

You asked for insults /shrugging

I feel that the reason that recruiting sucks is because there's a misalignment between the recruiter and the employer.

>>The recruiter want to put butts in seats. That's how they get paid.

>>The employer needs to get more work done. That's how they get paid.

The goal for the recruiter is to find people who want jobs and then put them in seats. Sure, it's great if the person is a perfect fit and ends up building a strong recruiter relationship, but at the end of the day third-party recruiters are mercenaries, not missionaries.

Besides for yelling at employers, I'm not sure how this is different.

> I feel that the reason that recruiting sucks is because there's a misalignment between the recruiter and the employer.

It seems you missed the message, maybe I should put more focus on explaining it.

I think recruitment sucks for other reasons. Recruiters and employers are very much aligned on getting as many people as they can, and that's the problem.

Quantity does not make for quality, and sure companies need quantity, but most would do better focusing on quality.

>>Recruiters and employers are very much aligned on getting as many people as they can, and that's the problem.

I don't think this is true. I think that recruiters are looking for this (cause it's how they get paid). I do _not_ think that employers are looking for quantity.

This is a bit too dudebro for me, and I'd be weary of hiring anyone from this site. You might want to consider a name change.

I'll hire for personality over skill, every time.

Sorry, no details on WHO exactly you are.

What’s your story?

Why would I trust you help manage an critical employer/candidate match?

I don’t think fake testimonials is a good look for trying to get sign ups. It turned me off at least

I can't tell if this is for real which is a huge compliment if you are indeed just trolling.

Came here for the name. Not an engineer, but love your attitude about tech recruiters. Good luck!

Thanks!

Does this still involve leetcode interviews? (I'm assuming it does).

No, not from us at least. We have high-level technical questions, to let companies know how a candidate would solve problems.

Bold move. 3 examples of rockstar's truly rocking it as readable case studies may put this on the map. Best of luck!

"All we had to do was to grow a pair and actually hire these amazing professionals because they're not on Linkedin."

Using crass gendered language around tech hiring is going to be a no for me. This just sounds like a law suit waiting to happen.

If this is a troll, you really captured the voice of the bro-engineer. Kudos.

If this is an actual thing, I can't wait to laugh while reading the inevitable 'My great start-up idea failed. I have no idea why' Medium post in 3 months.

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