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- deletes Uber

- installs Lyft

Wait, I did that a long time ago.

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Looks like par for the course. This happens all the time and it’s just part of the game you have to play when entering the markets. A judge or jury will have to figure out the rest of it, if you have the resources to go that route. Ultimately you’d be better off viewing this as a distraction. Every hour you spend on this is an hour you don’t spend on your own customers or hiring your team to do what matters: execute. And others will pop up just like this, with more funding and more powerful lawyers.

I'm wondering when I can use them for my wildcard SSL certs on Heroku. Anyone hear of them adding support?

I still don’t think we’ve seen the end of chatbots.

This is awesome. I've been wanting a tool where I can just plug in my database and get some graphs on some simple queries.

I sat in on about 100+ onsites where I was involved in collecting feedback from the onsite team. I asked each candidate if they would like to receive feedback before they left the building, and most of the time we told them on the spot we wouldn't be moving forward with the reasons why (sometimes actionable, sometimes not). The candidates appreciated the feedback since it occasionally helped them perform better in their future onsites. Some of them wrote positive Glassdoor reviews, and we even received referrals from a couple. It's uncomfortable as a hiring manager to do this, but in my experience, it's a net positive.

It's more likely that there are a lot of false negatives in CircleCI's hiring funnel. The issue isn't "there aren't enough good developers." There are plenty of good developers. It's possible that this sample of 1000 developers came from really bad sources (there's not enough information provided to determine the quality of their sourcing). For example, referrals convert at a rate of 57% to the screen (compared to 13% when sourcing). Recruiting agencies convert at 59% (although you'll be giving away 10-30% of first year salary for that). It could be that this sample is purely inbound applicants, which convert the lowest at 13%. [1]

We have benchmarks to understand how well a company is converting at each step in their funnel. CircleCI is converting well in 2 of their funnels, but the other 2 are underperforming significantly per my other comment in this thread.

[1] http://qr.ae/TU1sB2

That seems a bit harsh, even if CircleCI scores below average on some steps in their funnel. You know going into any company's hiring process that they're going to extend an offer about 1-2% of the time from the very top of their funnel. That doesn't mean you'll go around talking to 100 companies before you get an offer, but the numbers on the company's side will almost always look grim to a candidate.

The typical stages of a hiring funnel look like this: new candidate to screen, screen to onsite, onsite to offer, offer to acceptance. The respective ratios for each stage are: 17%, 32%, 31%, and 69%. On average, you'll look at about 88 candidates to make 1 hire. [1]

For CircleCI, their new candidate to screen is 25%. This is higher than the 17% average. Their screen stage looks considerably larger than I've seen at most companies: it's 4 different steps. From the 250 candidates, it looks like 7 go into an onsite. That's about 3% which is significantly below the 32% benchmark. Of those 7, 3 will receive offers (it's not mentioned how many accept those offers). So the onsite to offer is 42%, which is higher than the 31% average. We can't determine the offer acceptance from the data.

I think it's great they're looking at the funnel and conversion rates. Most recruiters aren't able to tell you these figures which is a red flag. The only way to improve those metrics is to know them first and then measure how changes impact each stage.

[1] https://medium.com/@jmtame/surprising-insights-from-talking-...

Thanks! It's available as a service to use at onsites.co.

Honest question: do people still send faxes?

Do you have a link?

I just redesigned what an offer letter looks like. [1] I think it's cool for a few different reasons: (1) most people don't truly understand the value behind an offer from a startup. Equity for example is tricky for newcomers. (2) Most companies don't share this information unless you push them on it. I wish more companies would be transparent about it, and I think doing this will help.

Here's a demo: https://coinbase.onsites.co/o/aurora-h

I also redesigned the onsite experience. Demo here as well: https://airbnb.onsites.co/joe-zadeh

[1] As with many things in design, I think I should attribute the source of inspiration, which is Carta. They wrote about a new offer letter format back in 2016. I'm basically taking their Apple Keynote slides and moving them to the web.

I'll say this: it's incredibly hard to have a full-time job and also build out a successful side project. It sounds really nice and rational when you write it out here, but it requires an insane amount of focus and basically shutting out any leftover time. Most people can't do this.

I would suggest surrounding yourself with wealthy people and keeping them updated. When you have enough progress to get them excited about it, ask if they'd come in as an angel investor. Once you get a few of these lined up, you can get enough runway to justify quitting.

The base advice is good: don't quit your job if you don't have 6-12 months of runway first. But also, your job is holding you back from the execution that will be required to build your project and get customers, so try to find a way to bridge your exit.

It’s mostly a copycat culture. But the best companies today are getting smarter and using more realistic interview techniques that accurately reflect the work.

I’m also working on the space with www.onsites.co to solve how broken the interview experience is.

The family relationship has always been a horrible way of describing the employee/employer relationship. There's divorce or disowning someone, but do you really want to try and draw that comparison when you fire someone? A team has players and they're always being traded to different teams. That's both more positive and honest when you're trying to describe a high-performant culture.

And there's also no concept of unconditional love in a company. There's respect, which should be a given. But you shouldn't be expected to unconditionally love your co-workers.

FYI OP claims $400mm USD was withdrawn to make a counterpoint about liquidity, but did not specify the exchange. Not sure why this would generate an argument? In addition, how can anyone infer that a sell indicates liquidity? A sell on an exchange only indicates one asset was exchanged for another.

FWIW I saw several large buys on the GDAX history today at the $18.4k price point. One was for 36 bitcoins, and I've never seen a purchase over 5. I shortly after saw another for 18.

I have a few questions: (1) When can we start using this? (2) How will you acquire the currency?

I think #2 is the pain point, and I didn't see this addressed in the whitepaper. Most people talk about Bitcoin's transaction speeds, but Litecoin works incredibly well for doing transactions. The difficulty for a normal person is acquiring it. You need something like GDAX.

While I'm not trying to pick apart small pieces of the essay, I agree with some of the high-level points. Culturally in SV, we are increasingly afraid of discussing anything that is controversial. Ad hominems are increasingly popular for any dissenting opinion or difference of view.

It wasn't always like this, and it has definitely gotten worse IMO. Based on conversations I've had with some friends, they also agree. We've all been living in the bay area for over 6 years and we're now entertaining the idea of moving away. I also know some smart people who have left naming this as one of the reasons.

Ok that seems fair

Why is this comment being downvoted? If you disagree, please say why.

I almost spit my beer out when I read this comment. It’s funny because it’s true.

Does this remind anyone else of the old Subspace/Continuum game?

I vividly remember how difficult it was. You had to print pages off and fill out all this stuff and mail it to someone.

"They were bought for $80 million."

AFAIK that's not public info. How'd you find out about this?

What's wrong with a company stating its mission to hire a diverse workforce? It's pretty hard to hire for diversity, especially if you're not explicit about it.

"It doesn't reliably notify you when candidates apply." I get e-mailed every time candidates apply for a role I'm following.

I actually disagree with most of what you're writing and I've been on it nearly full-time for the past few months. Lever has been awesome, coming from Greenhouse. It's also a much newer product, so as another commenter pointed out, it sounds like you missed some of the features that might have been more recently added.