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Yep! But we have continuously been iterating. Same idea, different approach, and now specifically wanting to hear from startups. Would love to hear you feedback.
Question: Are startups actually having challenges with hiring given the current economic state, hiring freezes for big companies, and numerous layoffs of talented people?
We fight for promising candidates we get in touch with, with friends at YC that need great people. Some of them like our high "signal to noise" ratio. We think using this "got to 2nd round at Big Tech" is surely not the perfect heuristic, but YC founders have said candidates here are on average way more attractive than their usual applicant pool.
Was just inspired by PG's take on building, so went really mvp, although typeform is not the most ideal but it works, and we can focus more on actually helping out those that sumbit. PG excerpt from "Six principles for making new things": "I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly"
This is as interesting as the first idea. We just went ahead with the "rejected" instead of the "offer" route because I had experienced getting far with interviews at Big Tech and then getting rejected. Felt it would be nice to use this "token" of having advanded to get other opportunities. Might tinker with the offer idea as well, but betting on this for now, esp. now that many Big Tech Cos have hiring freezes.
Yes! Using that as a heuristic. Althought its not ideal, it will probably give far better "signal to noise" ratio of "qualified" candidates vs. normal applications. The intention was originally not this, it just grew from the frustration from applying to Big Tech, getting far, then getting rejected, and feeling of having wasted my time and starting from zero again. Now maybe people in my situation can use past semi-successful interview processes to get new opportunities. That's the original intention.
We just moved fast. Was frustrated by progressing to final rounds at Big Tech and getting rejected, felt like hard work was wasted. Was then inspired by PG's take on building, a: "I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly"