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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Companies have multiple channels by which candidates are introduced to the company: cold inbound, internal referral, Recruiter A, etc.
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The channel you enter by is either formally or informally viewed as a quality signal and it is weighted STUPID high.
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You do not want to come in from a channel known for producing idiots. Operationizable: any widely viewed public job posting attracts idiots.
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Line engineers at companies are often explicitly incentivized, to the tune of $3~$8k+, to refer candidates to their hiring process.
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The strongest intro is "I previously worked with them and would like to again." Despite this, "We met at a meetup; not an axe murderer?" > 0
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