Re:Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months
by mej10 on Friday November 04, 2016 @07:11PM
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Favoritism?
It is a lot easier to vet someone you have worked with extensively, or if someone you trust gives a recommendation. It isn't like there is some secret society -- it is simply the way the world works.
Those are extra bits of information that go into the equation and they happen to count for a lot. I don't really see a problem with it.
Why wouldn't they give extra weight to those bits of information?
Also, this happens all of the time with positions across the board in startups/companies. If I am a senior engineer somewhere, and we are hiring and the company thinks I have good judgement... of course they are going to take my recommendations of candidates more seriously than someone off the street.
It is a lot easier to vet someone you have worked with extensively, or if someone you trust gives a recommendation. It isn't like there is some secret society -- it is simply the way the world works.
Those are extra bits of information that go into the equation and they happen to count for a lot. I don't really see a problem with it.
Why wouldn't they give extra weight to those bits of information?
Also, this happens all of the time with positions across the board in startups/companies. If I am a senior engineer somewhere, and we are hiring and the company thinks I have good judgement... of course they are going to take my recommendations of candidates more seriously than someone off the street.