Telling people to use their best judgement, even to default to silence "when in doubt", is risky business. It makes your community unpredictable, which--for many people--equates to unsafe. (It's also passing up a pretty low-effort opportunity to lead.).

RT @eatonphil: I'm interested in speaking with tech managers hiring programmers outside of major metro areas to understand the types of fol….

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Had a great time on the Distributed Podcast to chat about how we work at Sublime Security and espouse the virtues of unified tooling, tight feedback loops, and making work visible for remote companies. We're always experimenting and learning, pushing the bar for how we can do

RT @jkamdjou: i’m looking for someone who can rip apart an email attack, identify what’s interesting about the techniques used by the attac….

Even for those top-percentile total comp employers, competing *with each other* in this way would be great to see more of. E.g. @AnthropicAI is pushing the envelope a bit.

Thanks @YourFondestLove for the callout. I would love to play any small part in raising the bar for how our field hires people. Especially for companies who can't compete on massive total comp + liquidity, being able to differentiate in this way is valuable.

It also makes that first chat with a candidate much more productive / high signal. You can go deep on topics that would be hard to set up in a conversation where all a candidate had read was lofty "mission orientation" job posting boilerplate.

It takes a little longer to write these job postings, but the benefits are substantial: a) Writing this way is a forcing function to *be* thoughtful about the job, who the right fit is, etc, b) People share it more enthusiastically, c) Candidates remember you for good reasons.

I've used this approach (detailed, earnest job postings) for our last 4 hirings, and it feels like a superpower. E.g. the response rate to my cold sourcing skyrocketed. Lots more replies like, "I'm not a actively looking right now but. " (We hired one of them.) 🧵.

RT @jkamdjou: i have 3 @defcon badges to give away. if you’re a student or paid for your own way to vegas this year hmu. please RT for reach.

"There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity." . Why did you frame your hiring policy, and name it "MEI" (a clear evocation of "DEI") if not to put meritocracy and diversity at odds with each other in the minds of readers and your employees?.

The actual "second timeline".

RT @TechCrunch: Sublime nabs $9.8M for an anti-phishing email security platform built on collective, crowdsourced rules .

RT @gmfholley: Hey, our team is hiring! . We're small but growing, and our product is exciting and new! Especially if you are from an und….

RT @shannondotpizza: Sumeet is one of those rare birds that i will retweet any job he posts, because Sumeet ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuules (and Strip….

RT @sumeetjain: 📣 Pre-hiring announcement! I'm looking for Rubyists or Ruby-curious developers to join my distributed team at Stripe. We bu….

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I can also direct you to another team, if you're interested in something my team doesn't specifically do! Too often, people think they aren't cut out for certain companies. But I promise that YOU belong at Stripe as much as anyone does, and I'd love to help you find a good fit!.