I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

Re:I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas by firebones on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:04PM (#12467472)

I wonder whether there was some element of "those who have an inclination and ability to complete Starfighter may be insanely qualified from one set of screening criteria, but not from the criteria that resonates with people hiring employees".

In other words, maybe it turned out to be a better filter for self-starters who might be nascent entrepreneurs (reflecting the founders who created it), but sometimes those characteristics aren't what hiring companies are looking for when they have a specific role to fill.

Sometimes you interview people who would be outstanding in certain roles or for certain companies--but maybe not the one you happen to be currently working for.

I'm struggling here, but FizzBuzz is effective as a tool to weed people out, but FizzBuzz taken to the extreme doesn't necessarily equate to a tool to rule people in.

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Re:I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas by elptacek on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:45PM (#12474199)

There was no element of that. The frustration was mostly 'the client's hiring process is a mess.' On our part, the one piece of work we needed to do to sell Starfighter better was to write some 'accessible prose' on 'the practical applications of having cleared level six' -- this should have been more of a priority, and it wasn't. I can look back and see the opportunity I had to do it, myself, and am bummed that I didn't get it done. Lesson learned; it will be part of every challenge we release going forward.

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