Founder @blaze_talent: AI, SWE, and Hardware recruiting. Former talent leader @onepeloton @meta @birchbox, with over 3k tech hires. Dad x2. @nyjets & @mets fan!
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What an exciting week and another milestone achieved for our incredible team here at @onepeloton!
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Lifetime member here in New Jersey. It's amazing. Pickle ball, 5 pools, childcare, classes, steam / sauna / hot tub / cold plunge. It's totally worth it. And this is coming from someone who worked at Peloton for 6 years, it's great getting out of the house to work out 🤣
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34m net worth. 37 years old. Got rich how? Just working at AMD, pouring more money into company stock.
Might be a Blind flex but makes you think. You can do real well just resting and vesting in corporate. Don't let all the W-2 haters tell you otherwise on Twitter.
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This sounds like an ownership problem. Sad our best player had to get caught up in the middle but that’s what happens in poorly run organizations, your personnel will suffer. Johnson & Johnson & Co have to go! For so many reasons.
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90% of my former org at @Meta is now no longer there. 80% of my team at @onepeloton is gone. I just don't see how most internal recruiting teams will ever scale to the size they were before. When hiring turns back on, RPO and agency hiring will be the first place companies look.
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Now that I'm external you get to see inside the cultures of lots of different companies and some I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Next year my goal is to say "no thanks" much more. This would be a solid no thanks company! Terrible
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Just schedule replies to go out at 3 or 4 AM, so they don't know if you're up late working or if you wake up that early to start the day
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FAANG candidate today: interested in joining a startup, but TC is currently $1.1m. They'd be open to taking a hit to $800k for the right role.
Even if you're at a startup with $800k "on paper" - a "good outcome" at a startup will get you to $1m liquid. Golden handcuffs are back
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I told my son: daycare is like prison. You have to find the biggest kid and fight them day one to send a message to the other inmates.
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$450k is what some companies might pay for an exec to come in to have a long lasting impact on a business, usually with mixed results. To have that domain / brand forever for the same price seems like a deal considering the hit rate of execs. Congrats Jesse!
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Love the setup here.
I'm an expert in drones.
Let me talk about hearsay regarding nuclear proliferation and lost warheads instead.
Ok 🙄
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"If I had an organization with 100 people, I could 100% run it more efficiently with 90"
Jamie Dimon saying the quiet stuff out loud.
Q-Cap
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Asked a fake candidate from Florida where their favorite Publix is. They had never heard of Publix. IN FLORIDA.
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Recruiters who went internal the past 10 years are starting to realize this. Going internal used to be "safer" with better compensation and benefits. Now, it's clear when companies don't need recruiters they are the first to go, if it wasn't clear before.
People view corporate roles as 'safe'.
But there isn't anything safe about going from $100,000 to $0 in one day.
Entrepreneurship has its own risks, but I've never seen someone lose 100% of their customers in one day.
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I tweeted this weekend Bench could be redone with an EOR and solid accounting freelancers - or you guys could also just buy them! This acquisition makes sense, congrats Jesse & team!
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Internal recruiter at one of my clients was laid off along with half her team. She landed a new FTE role 3 weeks later.
Tech recruiter market is hot again.
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Rich - can someone in the media ask @woodyjohnson4 if he'd sell the team and move on? He bought the team a quarter century ago now and we've made the playoffs 6 times. 4 were wildcard. Woody is failing this franchise and the fans. He should fire himself.
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Bad idea. More buses and bus lanes will do the trick. Also invest in protecting cyclists / fix subways! @NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo
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These two single handedly ruined WFH for big tech
Also the dude who asked Zuck about Meta days going away at all hands that 1 time
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And Just Like That.... I'm no longer an employee of @onepeloton. What an amazing ride over 6 years! Going to take some time to spend more time with my wife and new baby, and consider what I'm doing next. So grateful for my time there and people I worked with, and my team.
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Last day on leave! Tomorrow is day one for me with @Meta where I'm joining as a Recruiting Manager supporting the Core SWE team 😄
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Every now and then you get a note like this as a recruiter and all the pain, trials and tribulations this line of work puts you through is worth it! It really does feel great to know someone you helped recruit is still happy at their company. Never gets old.
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Today on paternity leave my access to Okta / Slack / Gmail was deactivated temporarily, pretty cool thing we do at @onepeloton so we can truly disconnect from work and connect with baby. After nearly 6 years it feels weird! But so glad we do this :)
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The day that AI can completely automate recruiting will also be the day we don't even need the humans for the jobs they we were recruiting anyway.
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Pave is worth a look, limited data in Europe though. Levels.fyi to look at larger tech cos which for engineering you'll be competing with for talent even if they're not coming out of those companies. Carta is the best tool to look at equity grant data.
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Never forget: theonion.com/jeff-bezos-wear…
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You can lease a @Tesla Model Y for as low as $230 a month in NJ. Here's how:
- Use referral link for $2000 ts.la/william27681
- Go to inventory and find what's available
- $7500 back from the feds
- $2000 back from the state
🤯🤯🤯
#tesla #leasehack #ev
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Technical recruiters explaining how they determine quality engineers: nitter.app/david_perell/status/16…
#recruitment #hiring #techrecruiting
David Perell
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How bad is the culture at Coinbase that their chief people officer goes on LinkedIn to flex that everyone's hard work can be thrown to the trash for "raising the talent density" aka bs jargon... I thought they were against bureaucracy? 🤮🤮🤮
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Just landed a huge marketing hire for one of my clients. There is so much amazing talent on the market right now
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1st PM is betting on the person.
20+ is the what, where they can go deep, what they can do well.
First - who. Later - what.
What’s the difference between a first-PM hire vs 25th PM hire?
1st PM needs to:
* Embrace change
* Ship quickly
* Help with hiring, sales
* Be jack of all trades
25th needs to:
* Embrace process
* Ship reliably
* Help make case for resources
* Delegate to functional experts
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Over time, all the "talent marketplaces" slowly begin to look like staffing agencies to me
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Happy to share that @CorinneLoG and I got married this weekend! A smaller but much sweeter event than we could have imagined a year ago ❤️❤️❤️ and now... 2 weeks in Hawaii :)
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Heaven got a new angel today in dog heaven. Rest in peace my sweet Bowie. A dear friend and brother 🐶💔
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LinkedIn but only for announcing your resignation and teasing to check back in soon where you’re going next posts @BoredElonMusk
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I hate to say it but a lot of my friends in talent acquisition aren't adjusting to market forces and are sadly waiting for a new position that might not ever come. We're living in a shift in the economy right now. Have a plan B, C, D, E....
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It’s true - we live in a tool bubble in the startup world. Most companies are using outlook and teams, we’re all using gmail and slack. I’ve used both the past few years and while I still prefer gmail and slack it’s not orders of magnitude better tbh.
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1 bad candidate experience =
1m+ views on X
2m+ views on LinkedIn
3m+ total
Next time a hiring manager asks you to send candidates a ridiculous take home, remind them all it takes is one candidate to make your brand look like you're robbing people's time. It's not a good look.
I recently interviewed at Eight Sleep and it was the most demanding take home I've ever had. Their brief: "Create an in-app experience for a new product, integrating the existing app and flagship product." Even linked their design system and font family to use.
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Today is my 5 year anniversary at @onepeloton. Crazy to think what clicking apply on a @LinkedIn post 5 years ago would lead to :) so far, I've found all my jobs on @LinkedIn, @Twitter, and Craigslist LOL what I'd do for some rich parents!!!!
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