Archive for the 'Working in the Valley' Category

Silicon Valley Interview Pet Peeves

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

After spending several years constantly hiring people in the Valley, here are small pet peeves that I encounter frequently - and bother me most. Last week one candidate did the hat trick and did all 3 which made me want to write it down and make it “public” for the record –
1. Don’t show up late, and […]

I have a new job!

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I have a new job! Recently I became the VP of Product for FixYa, the world’s largest community Q&A site for technical support on everything you own.  FixYa maybe the largest site in the world that no one knows about.  We get over 9 million visitors a month, which is equivalent or more than much-better known […]

Profile Pic Management

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Since there is practically a site related to every aspect of Social Networking - why isn’t there one for profile pic management (or maybe Flickr should do a feature).  I don’t particularly go out of my way to join social media sites, but even so I have more than 10 profile pics that I have […]

What is up with eBay employees?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Every time I post on Craigslist for a part-time position for Web work (coding, design, etc.) I get a ton of replies from CURRENT eBay employees who all say they can work up to 20 hours a week on moonlighting freelance.  One person we hired for a facebook application was absolutely horrendous - but I […]

Is Yahoo! going to buy Twitter?

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Given that Y! will probably soon be part of Microsoft, it may not be such a good tip any more, but I noticed that in the last 30 days, I have been getting an inordinate amount of people from my former company (Yahoo!) signing up for Twitter and telling me that they are “following me”. 
This […]