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! 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
