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munirusman

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CEO at CodeInterview.io
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munirusman··on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary
Hired.com is an auction site for limited time. It works when you are desperately in need of job switch. TryCatch.cc is not bound by time and our target developers are not actively looking for job switch but may change their mind for higher pay.
munirusman··on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary
Sorry, just USD for now. Will add more regions soon.
munirusman··on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary
Co-founder here. Thanks for the liking it. Our anonymizer is semi-automatic for now but listing for recruiters is automatic.
munirusman··on Why phone and whiteboard interviews are not the best way to evaluate candidates
Being a developer myself, I agree with most of the things. I learnt this in a different way though. When we started RemoteInterview.io, we started as real time coding interview tool [0]. Even Though, it's really helpful for interviewer to watch candidate code in real-time, we soon realized that a number of candidates don't like to code under stress.

We then developed RemoteInterview.io Tests [1]. It's a screening platform based on coding tests where candidates solves the challenge in offline mode whenever they want. Some candidates still don't like to have time limits but I personally think it is important to have a deadline for every task because in real-world, no project can have infinite time.

[0] https://www.remoteinterview.io/features-interview [1] http://blog.remoteinterview.io/post/109864123971/screen-cand...

munirusman··on Facebook was down
$1.5M an hour!!!

But considering this is not the peak time in North America, it's should be little less.

munirusman··on Facebook was down
How much revenue are they losing every second?
munirusman··on Facebook was down
yes
munirusman··on How do you communicate if you won't hit an estimate?
I have faced many non-technical clients in past and trust me it's not easy. The best thing I could do is to double (sometimes triple) the original estimated timelines.

Make separate milestones for QA and UAT rounds.

Breaking the project in very small but presentable milestones helps in keeping non-technical clients updated and happy.

munirusman··on How do you communicate if you won't hit an estimate?
It doesn't take much time if we use right tools. I've found Asana really good for task management with your team. As software dev, all you have to do is to tick completed tasks or write short comment if you are missing deadline for an individual tasks.

Also, committing code multiple times a day with meaningful comments also helps.

munirusman··on How do you communicate if you won't hit an estimate?
The key is to divide your milestones in very small tasks in hours and communicate this detailed hourly plan with your total estimate. Update your manager/client about your progress as frequently as possible. Twice a week if not daily.

During the project, if you realize that your estimates were originally wrong, fix it asap and communicate immediately. Frequent communication is the key.

munirusman··on Show HN: A better elance just for designers
Does it work for individual designers only or design firms can apply as well?
munirusman··on Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this
Very well said. We have been thinking how to completely avoid human involvement in evaluation. We haven't figured out how but we are developing a feature to help interviewer in determining what to ask by using questions library. This won't solve the issue you pointed out completely but it will surely help interviewer to some extent.
munirusman··on Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this
I agree with you that "This guy is fast" is not the right way to judge but we just meant to demonstrate rating feature. Every interviewer can rate and judge in a subjective way.

Disclaimer: I am part of remoteinterview.io team.

munirusman··on Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this
More than 10 languages so far including JS, C++, Java, ObjC, PHP, Python and Ruby.
munirusman··on Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this
Thanks for the suggestion. We will modify.
munirusman··on Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this
This tool combines code editor, compiler and Audio/Video/Text chat with powerful rating system. All in web without installing anything.

Disclaimer: I am part of remoteinterview.io team.

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