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Comment by steveklabnik | Hacker News Reader

Nobody at Oxide believes that the hiring process is perfect.

No hiring process is perfect, but when your company’s hiring process is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign.

If I wanted this I’d have stayed in academics, with its 20-page CVs and multiple statements of purpose.

At least there if you win the tenure-track position lottery, and then the grant lottery, you have a good shot at winning the tenure lottery and getting some job security doing something you (probably) love.

Oxide is a startup with a finite runway.

Hard pass.

Any application process is a two-way street. It is absolutely fine for you to decide to opt to not apply. Maybe someday we'll have a different process, or maybe it was just never meant to be :)

Seeing as AWS is probably the king of the BS leetcode interview track, your aping their behavior in this area as the ANTI-AWS does not bode well for you. I hope I'm wrong here as AWS needs serious competition.

What behavior are we aping? Your comment brings up leetcode, which we don't do, so it cannot be that. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Is it really a two way street when a candidate spends multiple hours only to get back a generic rejection email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134589

> is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign.

Many people stay at a company for longer then they stay at college. So that doesn't seem that crazy.

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