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33 pointsyitchelle11 comments

Is this related to ycombinator? If not, the page styling is a blatant rip-off of their branding. I feel like someone's trying to trick me into thinking this is something that it's not, which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

To your point, I actually find the UX of the site to be quite horrible. The split-screen makes it cluttered...overall, I'm not engaged by the site, and I quickly closed the window after the headache inducing 2 seconds I spent on there.

The initial page looked broken; I thought you were pointing out a problem page on HN when I first saw it...might want to reconsider the design as cshimmin pointed out.

First impression of the submission title: "please not another 'we are bad at interviewing people'"

Opened the site, read about the goal, and I think this idea is neat and clever (also entertaining too). Imagine you can turn this into "guess which company is that." BTW, I like the simplicity of the UI but I suggest moving the content more toward the center. left-align is really tough when 80% of the right side is empty.

How is this different from all the broken job boards other the the minimalist visuals and good color scheme?

I feel the need to push back on this meme.

"Hiring is broken" for the same reason so many other things in this world are broken.

Because in the end, hiring a political decision, not a rational or technical one.

To get hired anywhere requires the consensus of, say, 2 to 6 people (maybe more!), and that becomes the realm of the political.

These people have to like you as well as think you can do the work as well as about 10 other things...

And in the end, unless the process is automated by AI, the decision will always be political-by-nature and thus subject to all the attendant issues that brings with.

And thus the process stays "broken" (whatever that really means) and will continue to resist all efforts to remake it.

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I would argue that hiring isn't broken at all. It's WAI.

I would also argue that WAI isn't good enough, and that too often stupid hire/no-hire decisions are made.

Thirdly, the tooling that exists to facilitate the recruiting & onboarding processes are largely horrific. There's still space to make a bunch of money in this area.

it took me 3 minutes to figure out WAI meant, could you just spell out "Works as intended"? You aren't texting.

I don't even know if "WAI" means "Works as intended" cause if so, then he is saying "It's WAI" which would correspond to "It's Works as intended" which would be super confusing grammer.

Either way, you shouldn't use acronyms unless they're easy to understand and you know grammar.

That hiring is broken seems to be the one thing HN can agree on.

Looking for my next role at the moment, I'm having to use up a lot of energy just resisting the urge to think about doing a hiring startup. It seems like such a ripe target for disruption, and sure as hell would be scratching an itch.

That's what Starfighters is up to.

https://www.starfighters.io/

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