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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      People model companies as having "slots" which they're trying to fill, and think "if they don't publish job req, no slot exists." 0 for 2.

      2 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      Sending in a resume and waiting for a callback is not "the most common way people get jobs." It should be rounded down to a no-op.

      3 replies 5 retweets 14 likes
    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      Our industry is systematically incompetent at assessing for talent and therefore subjects candidates to hazing-by-verbal-lore in interviews.

      5 replies 26 retweets 59 likes
    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      There are often people who are not technologists who have de-facto authority to filter the candidates exposed to a tech decisionmaker.

      1 reply 7 retweets 17 likes
    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      Direct consequence: you should not expect "I spent the last 5 years making improvements to ActiveRecord" to be read as "has Ruby experience"

      2 replies 4 retweets 21 likes
    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      Job descriptions have bullet points, customarily labeled required/optional. All of them are lies ^H^H^H^H declarations of present intent.

      1 reply 5 retweets 20 likes
    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      People with hiring authority will find a candidate they like and then retroactively justify how they fit who they were hiring for.

      3 replies 16 retweets 51 likes
    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      This is operationizable: you should consistently overreach with regards to the types of positions you apply for. Let them tell you "No."

      7 replies 11 retweets 53 likes
    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      Internal company recruiters try to black-box Our Company's Ideal Hiring Profile by seeing which candidates founders approve.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    10. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      This often results in the recruiters -- who are a filter -- selecting for attributes which the founders/company would deny being filters.

      1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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      A very common case of this is recruiters intuiting that the company only hires from a school and peer institutions.

      6:08 PM - 30 Jan 2016
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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          Substantially every company has a formal or informal way to shortcircuit the hiring process for a candidate who they desire enough.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Jan 2016
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          There exist many people inside any company who can independently say the words "You have a job here any time you want one" and make it so.

          1 reply 7 retweets 25 likes
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