the other side of your interview
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What happens on the other side of your interview. The way we do it at Artsy.TRANSCRIPT
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Of Your Interview
@dblockdotorg
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
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Many Sides
Big Companies
Small Companies
Medium Companies
Not Quite Companies
Companies Run By Pros
Companies Run By Kids
Companies Run By CommitteeCompanies ...
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Unique You
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Amongst Many Of You
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How Many?
240 Engineering 102 Editorial548 Designer124 Research
~ 6 a day
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This is where ...… I start boring you with a story about how we filter resumes ...
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People
#1
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What kind of people?
InspiringHigh Performing + Team Player
Right Brain + Left Brain
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Lead Generation@engineer => cold email to our CEO
@engineer => an early hiring website experiment
@pm => viral job post on tumblr
@engineer => referral via friend of CEO
@mobile engineer => referral via friend of CEO
@engineer => hiring website
@engineer => worked together with someone above
@engineer => worked together with someone above
@engineer => worked together with someone above
@engineer => random encounter during Hurricane Irene
@engineer => cold email to CEO
@engineer => cold email to jobs@
@engineer => referral via friend
@engineer => met @engineer at a tech talk
@engineer => met @engineer at a conference
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Materializing a Lead
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We Know You
You better know us!
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Onsite Interview
2-3 Engineers1 Non-Engineer
45 minutes 1:1Lunch / Coffee
Standup
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How to Decide?
Does the candidate raise the bar?
Will I be more excited to come to work if the candidate sits next to me?
Clear Yes or No, not Maybe or Hesitations
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Written Feedback: YepYep,
Seemed like a strong developer and a very humble individual. I talked to her about her work on project Blue Beam for a while and it was clear that she made a substantial contribution to it, specifically the software infrastructure for the launcher. I described a simplified version of our current architecture and asked her to think up some ways to get better performance from our back end and he came up with some good ideas, including refactoring the API and rewriting the caching layer to use Russian Doll caching. She was very interested in how we measure the success of new features or changes on the site and had some good ideas in that area as well.
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Written Feedback: NopeNope,
While very energetic and clearly quite ambitious, the candidate's fundamental understanding of computer science seemed weak for a college graduate in CS. For example, when asked what's a b-tree answered that it's a kind of plant.He deflected almost every technical question to a more general discussion, rather than addressing the specific problem at hand. When I asked him to describe a specific time when he identified and fixed an application performance problem, he described something completely unrelated to application performance - a bike race.
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Gushing Referencesfrom very successful individuals
Offense vs DefenseForce objectivity via ranking
Separate performance from culturePay attention to tone not content
References are also pitch opportunities
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Decision-Making Process
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RejectionThank you for taking the time to interview with Artsy. We have decided not to move forward.
We think you're very energetic and ambitious. You take initiative and are generally curious. Things like your involvement in your school’s programming club and your personal project X speak for themselves. However, your fundamentals in CS and the responses to technical questions were below the bar that we have set for a candidate in this position.
However, we definitely want to stay in touch and would be grateful for the opportunity to re-evaluate working together in the future. In the meantime, I'd love to see you succeed at another NYC company. I am serious about this, so if you have some startups in mind that you would like to be introduced to, or would like us to suggest some, please let me know and I will connect you with the right people.
Thank you,
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Your Resume
SimpleShortFactualAccurateConsistentCoherent
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Objectives“To obtain a full time position that matches my enthusiasm, constant effort and efficiency.”
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Github and Open-Source
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Lead, Driven and Managed
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X-Pert Skillz
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Career Changer is a Strength
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Have Someone* Read Your ResumeAnd Give You Honest Feedback
* Someone = Who Hires a Lot of Engineers
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You Definitely Have What It TakesMeet A NYC Company That Wants You