nathanh

This site does something similar based on when you tweet. It's reasonably accurate for me: http://www.sleepingtime.org/nahurst

Rockstars? What you really need is a ninja. <joking>

This came up a litte while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1248389

Seems like to most people it means that whoever wrote the job post has unreasonable expectations. Also, rockstars make a lot of money. If a company really is looking for a rockstar, they better be able to pay for it.

Lists like these always makes me think about the effects of forced reading. The books I've enjoyed most I've chosen to read. Being forced to read some books, even great books, have ruined them for me.

I recently wrote up a bunch of black hat recruiter tactics that I've either experienced personally or have heard about from companies and job seekers. It's crazy how far some recruiters will go.

http://blog.nahurst.com/black-hat-recruiter-tactics

This is a great job posting, but its completely focused on the benefits to the company, not the job seeker. In the context of the site it's fine because their main jobs page is awesome http://www.airbnb.com/jobs but if this was posted on a job board, it would need a lot of work to lure someone who didn't know about airbnb in advance.

A number of companies will be interviewing in New York City on 4/27 at Hirelite: Speed Dating for the Hiring Process.

Here's the current list of companies:

- ACL Systems - Software Developer

- IndustryNext - Software Engineer & ActionScript Developer

- Fantasy Interactive Inc - Senior Java Software Engineer-NYC

- LearnBat.com - Seeking talented developers on iPad, Flash, and LAMP

- Yodle - Software Engineer

- knowmore - R&D Hacker

- National Event Company - Senior Ruby Programmer

- TradeCard - Java Developer

- Arc90 - Web Application Developers, Designers, Engineers, and Sysadmins

See http://hirelite.com/companies for complete job descriptions.

Edit: formatting

But it is your money in a way. If you went to a company that typically uses recruiters, and you came to them without a recruiter, you'd be saving them a bunch of money - money that you might be able to negotiate into a sign-on bonus or a higher salary.

I've received some pretty biting ones from people that were upset about having to pay to use a product or service online. It's interesting that people are willing to put hours into a hate note, yet aren't willing to pay $20 for something online.

"Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'd really like to see a set of use cases for each type of system too. I recently compared NoSQL systems in terms of the CAP theorem and the underlying data model (discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190772). I haven't seen enough of these systems in production, but it would be great to see examples of each combination of CA, AP, or CP systems with relational, key-value, column-oriented, document-oriented, and graph (not featured in my post) data models.

We're running a "speed interviewing" event on 4/27 in NYC to connect software people and companies. Check out who's coming on hirelite.com

If you're impatient or want to get in touch with a previous company that's come, let me know and I'll put you in contact with them.

"In my own experience, I’ve had more negative than positive transactions with experts and professionals that advertise themselves as such."

Great point. The terms expert and guru (maybe professional too) are a lot like nicknames. I can call you those things, but if you call yourself that, I can't help but think the opposite.

I don't think there have been any hires finalized yet, but there have definitely been a lot of follow up interviews. I'll try to post as we hear about hiring successes on the site.

I just took a look at your http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs/ page and saw that you guys have open salaries. What type of feedback have you received from doing that? Are people resistant to it? Do they come around eventually?

"if the logo has not been purchased before, you can buy it exclusively and own the full rights to the logo for an extra $199." http://99designs.com/readymade/help/howitworks

Wow, nice work. I think $3 is way too cheap, especially compared to piano lessons. I'd easily pay $50 (I'm an Android user though).

It's hard to often hard to reach a consensus because each system has mechanisms for compensating for features that they lack. Ex: RDBMSs often deal with partition intolerance using replication and sharding.

I like to see how long it takes people to build things. (I do think everything the OP said is legitimate though)

Those of you with sales teams, what guidance do you have about sales people promising features that don't exist without getting input from the rest of your team?

That is definitely a possibility. We're coping with it for this first event by targeting companies that aren't cherry picking skill sets; they're willing to give someone time to learn as long as it's a smart developer who gets things done.

For future events, we'll try to break things out more and specialize, not only by programming language, but we'll start to have events for designers, systems administrators, etc.

If you want to get something up quick, you could use http://slinkset.com (aquired by Posterous in June 2009). It lets you create a social news site in seconds.

Have a look at http://www.abtests.com

They have great landing page examples.

Can you think of any improvements to what you experienced? Or do you think the whole proposition is flawed?

That's a great point. We're going to enforce the 5 minute limit by physically rotating seats every 5 minutes. Do you know of another enforcement mechanism?

For this event, there will only be 20 companies and 20 job seekers.

The test is currently online, open book, and untimed (though it won't take long). If you start the signup process as a Software Engineer, you can see the test. I haven't posted the test blatantly in the open so people won't easily be able to Google an answer.

I am not a recruiter. I'm a developer. I know who's hiring because I've been watching the job boards and attending events in NYC for the last few months.

For now, who shows up on the "companies attending" list is manually populated (when a company signs up, they send me a job post that I put on that page). I'm in the process of getting job descriptions from the attendees.

The blog is currently empty because I haven't written anything :). I plan to get some content up there this weekend.

I'm glad you're a stickler about recruiters. I am too. I am 100% committed to not having recruiters at this event, even if it means turning down money. They will ruin the experience.

For this particular event, the attendees will be primarily companies I know who are hiring and companies that read HN. I'll be monitoring the companies that sign up and kicking out people that I think are recruiters. I have a good handle on who is hiring tech talent in NYC right now, so I know the companies that are likely to show up. If they're not on my mental list, I'll be suspicious.

1. Thanks!

2. Recruiters will not be involved. They are one of the main reasons I created this - to get job seekers and companies talking directly.

3. Currently, the programming test is pretty simple (less than 10 lines of code) and is meant to qualify people that show up. We don't want to put people with no programming ability in front of companies.

4. Thank you so much for catching that. The date is actually the 16th (typo before).

5. We enforce the 5 minute limit.