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Re:Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past pe... by tfehring on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:06PM (#19274584)
> This space is gigantic and there is plenty of room for multiple solutions.

My concern is that references are a poor signal in general, not that LinkedIn has a monopoly on them. I don't request or look at references, and I haven't provided references to a potential employer since I was in high school.

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Re:Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past pe... by annawangx on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:51PM (#19275068)
We agree that reference checks as they are done today at the end of the hiring process are under-leveraged. With Searchlight, we believe that we can make them much more useful.
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Re:Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past pe... by sidlls on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:54AM (#19278491)
Why do you believe that? There are a number of problems with references, and bias (both positive and negative) is perhaps the most difficult to overcome.
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