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Yes. Use Glean. It's a very smart search across every knowledge base (Confluence, Slack, Google docs, Outlook etc)

So many great companies, thanks for starting this & people for sharing

Use it as someone you are working with / talking with. Not as auto complete. You need to reframe your work a bit to have best results interacting w/ llms

> Easily top 1% or top 0.1% of candidates

How do you measure that ? It seems like he wasn't a good candidate after all. I hope y`all learn a lesson about hiring and moving away from things that aren't signal to a job.

That's very true. Lots of Java, C++ in big companies / enterprise systems that "just work" for a long time

It’s a good question but I don’t think so, short of requiring a cover letter with the application but I bet I would face a similar challenge there.

The candidates and CVs do look like what I’m looking for, until I interview them …

It used to be that just quickly parsing through CV I could separate candidates that are worth interviewing.

Nowadays there seems to be way more CVs that are well written and crafted for the role. Some of the initial screening I did was clear the person didn’t have the experience in their CV

Where did I say that ? I am replying to a post that mentioned it.

I definitely want to hire the best matches to the role I am offering tho, but practically will settle for the ones that seem good to work with and that can get the work done.

How do you get the best 30%? 30% of 1k is still 300

In principle I agree. I worked in a similar industry until recently and it was much easier. Also because the influx of CVs for an opening was much smaller, I could actually read them into detail and have conversations. Because they were 10s of applicants over a month instead of 1000s.

I do hire juniors and interns as well. And I have similar issues for those. On interns we had 1000s of people interested.

Yeah I agree, but I feel then we become very bias towards referrals and people who recruiters already trust - many developers despise recruiters for whatever reason.

I haven't seen a better approach tho.

TLDR: Ci/cd for services on CSPs

Check out isaac sim from nvidia

That's a deeper question that only you can answer. I can only say that your thinking based on how you phrased it doesn't really lead to happiness in general

She can try to reach out to possible mentors / people on Linkedin. A bit like cold calling. It works, people (usually) want to help and don't mind sharing their experiences / tips. I know I have helped many random linedin cold messages from recent grads/people in uni

I got into CS because I liked games. I wouldn't know how to ping a host by year 2, in fact, I hated CS and only finished it because my father insisted.

Wasn't until I got my first internship by year 4 that I started to work/enjoy it, and have had a very successful career so far (20y in)

Yep. Agreed. I do keep notes on people & recurring meetings (as a leader) using Joplin which helps me to recap for the next meeting.

Very lightweight bullet-points. That's it.

If entire countries runs on Whataspp (including business) (e.g: Brazil) it surely adds a lot of value ?

Yeah I should go one step deeper, on big tech, it also depends a lot on the org inside the company sometimes.

This really depends on the company. There are many companies where eng has way more weight than PM. And that eng aren't so divorced from customers. Even big tech.

I feel this is a pretty cynical view. We can all be adults and understand it is a business relationship.

The "reward for loyalty" varies greatly per company, but I would like to see it defined. I have worked on 12 companies since I started my career, some of them would probably rank very high for your definition and others very low.

Why do you feel like you need to keep it up ? The foundation of computing hasn't really changed too much in the last 20 years. Master the foundations and maybe read this site once a week ?

send them a personal email or linkedin msg

I love this. I will bookmark / see what I can do once it stops raining everyday in Vancouver

Can you share a bit more about Bezos email ?

Not true in my experience being on both sides of the equation

There are thousands of CVs per opening in some companies, how do you expect people who barely have time to read the CVs to also give individual feedback ?

Why is it brute force and why is it bad ?

99.9% of the companies in the world will never need more than 1 beefy box running postgres with a replica for a manual failover and/or reads.

can use ansible (or ssh) and copy a tarball (or python package or pull docker container)