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Ask HN: How would you like to apply for jobs?

by Southworth on 11/23/16, 3:33 PM with 5 comments

Hi all, Southworth here, co-founder of www.unicornhunt.io & we've been thinking about how to improve the job candidate application process, and we thought we'd ask you lovely people.

What one thing would dramatically improve the job application process from your perspective?

Thanks in advance.

Benjamin

  • by itamarst on 11/23/16, 4:37 PM

    Tell me upfront if you have sane engineering culture or not, i.e. 40 hour workweek, good planning, etc..

    Not just me, either: I've gotten massive responses to posts about shorter, saner workweeks (front page of HN multiple times, e.g. https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/18/productive-programme... hit #1). So there's obviously large market of engineers who don't want to work insane hours.

  • by wsmith on 11/23/16, 5:10 PM

    I want to get a job within 3 days, not 3 months.