Our industry is systematically incompetent at assessing for talent and therefore subjects candidates to hazing-by-verbal-lore in interviews.
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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.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Internal company recruiters try to black-box Our Company's Ideal Hiring Profile by seeing which candidates founders approve.
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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.
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A very common case of this is recruiters intuiting that the company only hires from a school and peer institutions.
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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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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.
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You can round to "No company hiring in technology is satisfied with the number and quality of candidates which they get passively."
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External recruiters, and some internal recruiters, are human shell scripts which scrape LinkedIn and Github, schedule calls, and follow up.
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