Location: Bay Area, CA
  Remote: In-person, hybrid, remote are all okay
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, Go, C, Assembly, (learning) Rust, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/Hilal-Resume
  Email: hilalmorrar@gmail.com
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilal-morrar/

Hi! I'm Hilal, recent CS BS graduate interested in SWE or ML full time or intern positions. I am willing to learn and happy to make a positive impact. I served as a student-leader for 2 years at university and tutored for CS classes for 3 years. Happy to chat!

i appreciate the response, thank you! do you have suggestions on where to look for these growing companies? I currently search linkedin, YC (workatastartup), and angellist/wellfound).

Maybe try connecting with recruiters, they will often have many clients. You might also look at the bootcamps and the companies they claim are hiring from their schools, same for colleges maybe?

I got lucky (? PhD & DevOps) and never had to search for an entry level job, so I may not have the best topical advice to give

It's mostly a numbers game, try to apply to 3 companies a day

thank you again :) sounds good!

Are there available positions for hire in the company? This sounds really interesting!

Not yet, but hopefully soon. Thank you for the feedback!

Hello! I hope you feel better soon! Burnout is hard to recover from - still trying to fully recover myself too.

I made a post and asked the community a similar question a little while ago, if you'd like to take a look at more tips and tricks people shared then too.

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29754211

I think this is the book, for easy access: https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/Guide_t...

Edit: skimming through it and looks like this is a lot of material in this book and other guided by the economist listed on the second page than can also be of interest.

Understood! Thank you for the advice! :)

I should have specified - it is a recruiter from the company doing the hiring, but I appreciate both pieces of advice. Thank you.

also lets you add friends (not required), write reviews, and rate movies/shows! pretty cool app

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Started about a month ago, just finished earlier today.

From what I gather from talking to peers, it seems like recruiting companies/services are not utilized and people are suspicious of them. This may or may not be the case in reality, since I've only talked to a small sample of people.

If this new platform is a standalone company/service, how would it overcome this uncomfortable feeling from its target audience? Or would it be a new service to integrate into existing company hiring processes as an additional SaaS product for companies that want to fix their hiring systems? Maybe both?

I also like the idea of transparency and honesty in the example you provided. Yes that could be a tough pill to swallow sometimes, but I think if that expectation is established from the beginning, it may not be as big of deal/problem.

I do agree about the timeline problems. Sometimes, it takes way too long to receive a response from a company - if anything at all!

I have been thinking about how to make the entire process from job posting to hiring better and one of my biggest thoughts was exactly about the processes being far too dehumanized because of the lack of hiring resources.

I appreciate your ideas and discussion!

Good questions!

Probably start as a standalone company / service, with the goal to get purchased by a large online career "solutions provider" (I can't stand these expressions).

Focus on the psychology of building trust from all parties. Then pick a small group of companies and applicants in a specific sub-field. Jet engine engineers. Snake veterinarians. Or something like that until you find the right sub-field which believes in the vision of trust.