Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by sokoloff on Sunday December 30, 2018 @09:34AM
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If you’re at a startup that’s struggling where hiring decisions are made on superstition, you might be the unlucky one...
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by daenz on Sunday December 30, 2018 @09:48AM
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There are many people involved in influencing the process to hire someone, and as I'm sure you know, many people vote "no" for the most seemingly inconsequential reasons. As superstitious as "bad luck" is, like I stated in my earlier post, it's a placeholder/heuristic for abnormal amounts of failure without a clear cause.
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by Raidion on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:54PM
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I don't think it's down to bad luck, but it's the fact that there is an undeniable correlation between being a good dev at a startup and that startup succeeding. It's obviously not the strongest correlation, but it's there. If you have two developers, each about equal, and one was a member of a startup that did well, and one wasn't, it's obvious where the chips are going to fall. I don't think anyone calls that luck, even if they probably should at least be aware it could be bad luck.
Consider this: You're working at a startup that is struggling, and you're interviewing a candidate whose last 5 startups they worked at folded within 6 months of them being hired. As rational as people try to be, there would be a back-of-the-mind superstition that hiring that person would be bad luck.