Ive heard of a few of these tools coming up. Definitely a pain point hiring developers, not sure how valuable these tools are however. Determining a developers proficiency I believe is one of the easiest parts of the process to solve. Finding them in the first place, finding developers looking to move, getting face time, managing counter offers etc... are all bigger problems imo.
@vinayp10 Thanks for your input Vinay! Actually, our product is focused on solving the intent problem first. Our vision is to identify mutual interest and unlock the conversation once that is established. Too much time is spent 'selling' in recruitment - I would argue, any time spent selling is a waste - the best that can happen is that you actually succeed to persuade someone against their better interests to do a job that isn't suited to them!
Determining proficiency is another problem in recruitment, but we think that employers will always own that rather than trust any 3rd party service. You are always going to interview the engineer, and / or put him or her through a technical test or have him or her work with the team on a programming exercise regardless of whatever information is surfaced up by a service that you do not own or control. Candidate proficiency is not the problem we are solving with this version of the app - we are simply trying to make sure that the you only speak to people who are interested in the opportunity you have.
Ping me directly if you have any more questions, or feel free to reply to this comment - love to hear your thoughts!
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Just signed up as an employer recently and have to say, this has already delivered about 3-4 really interesting candidates directly. Hats off. Love the focus on what the person wants to do versus what they've done before.
Sure, we used it. It was helpful but completely unprofessional when contacting support (still haven't received a reply). This really lets it down and is insulting.
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