How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone

Re:How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone by dominotw on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:29PM (#11119492)

>Pinging a real person with sincere, earnest content and talking to them like they're a person is so much better.

I was a bigtime Rdio fan. I loved their clean design, discoverability. I pinged a real person with big list of improvements and bugfixes that was I was collecting over many months. I told them I wanted to work for them and sent them my resume.

They got back to me with "We have sent over your suggestions to our engineers, but we can't hire anyone without Python experience" .

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Re:How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone by noobiemcfoob on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:37PM (#11120586)

Anyone with Python experience should know how easy it is to translate any other language experience into learning Python.

They would've been better off saying they just couldn't hire anyone at the time.

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Re:How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone by leeny on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:04PM (#11119822)

And look where they ended up :/

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Re:How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone by dominotw on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:07PM (#11120332)

yea, apparently their CTO didn't like anyone without python experience. bizarre.

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