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The post is largely targeted at beginners. I think giving this perspective to fresh grads can help them take a decision to atleast clear up the dilemma when they have to choose to work at a startup/corporate during internships or right after college.
The reason I wrote it was because during my four years at college, we had this perception that webdev was boring and nobody used to opt to interview for companies which were into it. And the joke was, "All you do is change the colors every 6 months". I had the chance to intern at a SaaS startup and then worked there for more than 2 years and then figured students back at college needs to know more about this experience.
I got only 4 results with that search. So those 4 pages are definitely indexed. You can check with different search queries for the rest of the pages.
I observe that it's a photo only website. It's hard to get them ranked better than sites with content. Search engines are smarter now, so adding title, description, keywords, etc does not ensure it ranks better for those keywords. It used to work, but not anymore. Search crawler check for actual content and relevance.
Since its "an anonymous photo" app, you'll have to rely high on word of mouth/social/referral traffic instead of organic sources.
Next, figure out where they spend their time on. For eg: to target devs, post on communities like HN (as Show HN). Reach out to community driven blogs and be an author subtly marketing the product. In fact, an interesting story on what you went through during the product building phase, that challenges you solved is exciting enough to intrigue a developer.
General netizen? Share on platforms like reddit (specific subreddit), twitter (would be good if one of your users which high reach can volunteer for this).
Is it a B2B product? Offer the product at a discounted rate to initial users and in return, you can ask for promotion through their site/social media (a bit like testimonials). For eg: I got to know about mixpanel by seeing the badge on the footer of certain website I used.
If the early engineers were experienced guys, a basic test suite and deployment pipeline would have been the first priority at the onset. It makes releasing frequent commits a breeze. Or else, they learn from subsequent hires to organize code, write tests and add extra processes. If they fail to hire such talent, they learn the hard way, frequent downtimes leading to user frustration and failing to retain them. It's crucial they realize this early on though, otherwise, this could lead to things blowing up pretty quickly leading to the death of the product.
Although I'd say, it sounds unusual for an investment bank. Doesn't sound like a company anyone would stick around for long. Sounds like inexperienced engineering leadership. If you're early in your career, I'd suggest looking for better companies.
If my assumption is correct, the candidate will fall in this situation if they didn't already clear up the expectations, roles and responsibility before/during the interview. A friend of mine recently found himself in a situation where they decided to quit after working for less than 2 weeks at an early stage startup. He ended up quitting by the end of the month.
I believe it's a shared responsibility to clear up such things before making an offer (from company's POV) or accepting an offer (from candidate's POV). This situation doesn't help either party.
I wish I'm wrong and they release SE 2 after reaching their margin profits with X series.
The problem is, companies were initially comfortable with no such feature to record candidate actions (snapshots/videos), candidates however started cheating in dozens of ways and eventually get rejected when they are shortlisted for the first F2F interview after initial screening. Some candidates can't even explain how they scored well in screening test.
Due to that, companies became insecure and are now asking for features for proctoring the assessment. Things are never one-sided.
I did some competitions (Design and Development) on TopCoder during undergrad days and was lucky enough to secure a place in top 3 couple of times. Key there is to choose a contest with less number of participations and patience.
Other than that, weworkremotely.com helps, browse some recent whoishiring threads. Might want to have a look at jobcombinator.io as well.
Author here. This is not exactly a product. It is rather a creative way to gather some inputs from HN users. I owned the domain since last 6 months and did ask previously here itself if there's any substantial way to make the best of it. Now I just found a better way to ask.
Psst.. there is arkanoid game hidden somewhere inside. :)
Cheers,
Ravi