Totally agree, the hard problem in all of this isn't people analytics or people ops, it's people. Dealing with them is hard because we're all so different.
That's the feeling I'm getting as a result of this. I think it's great that Instagram took a long time before they launched this, and I'm not sure what tools people have in order to report, block and hide ads, but it's clear from this experience it's something the community wants.
Personally, there's no "may" in it. It's all about the people, and what you can do for them. Technology like the internet is just a distribution channel, a few to reach people who aren't nearby.
I could talk a lot about how we're different from LinkedIn, and how looking pretty as a website is a hindrance at times, but we're less about what you've done and more about how you do it.
For a lot of people things like job titles and descriptions are out of sync with what we do, and we don't really have any good tools to show or share our work. Developers have Github, designers have dribbble, but for everyone else there's not a good tool out there.
But, I hear you on the YASN problem, and we're not solely a social product as a result of that.
I got bored of London, worked in SF for a while and enjoyed it there, but had no chance getting a visa.
I got back to London (could never really afford to live in the city centre) and then moved to Berlin and loved it. But, you can get too comfortable in some places, so I'm back in London again, but I miss Berlin.
Never go back though, if I had the chance I'd move on to somewhere new in Europe for sure. London's great though, more diversity than many, many places, and that's a huge reason to stay.
Very cool - small thing, there's a spello in the footer "We have helped place candidates at top technoogy companies and startups." Bigger thing, software jobs are pretty much all jobs, or do you mean tech jobs? Either way I like it, nice one!
"Engineering hiring isn’t a filtering problem. It’s a sourcing problem." Yes and all hiring is a sourcing problem, when it comes down to it.
There are so many recruitment companies are out there on the horizon, especially in London right now.
It's a big space to dive into and a lot of people assume that they can tech their way out of it, but it takes a lot more than a fancy algorithm and a joint dislike of shitty recruiters to be useful.
Dealing with overly confident people = learning how to clean up the mess when it goes wrong, because it's hard to to win once things turn into a persuade-off.
Do anything and everything you can to slow the conversation down, to give yourself time to think, to delay decisions, and never be afraid to change your mind once the dust settles.
Sure, it pisses people off, but at the same time it takes guts to go back and say "no, we got it wrong". Decisions don't have to be final until you're happy with them.
I didn't make the smartest choices when I was young(er), but I turned that around, found a career, ended up co-founding a company and making a cool game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nethernet) then started a new company to help people figure out wtf they can do with their lives (https://www.somewhere.com).
Saying that though, the stupid robots I built, the side-projects and the articles in Hack Circus mean just as much.
Of course, pride comes before a fall so, yeah, cheers.... ;)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-e...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190
https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how...