Yes. If you can chat with someone face-to-face you’re already miles ahead of an online application. I wouldn’t even say you need to have a solid network. I just reached out to people on LinkedIn (some of whom I didn’t know).

7 from referrals. 2 interviews from networking events, and 1 from an inbound email (which turned into an offer).

So referrals got you more interviews but the inbound got you the job? Interesting. My buddy also got his job recently from an inbound.

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A very good book for web developers. I read it a couple of months ago. It's very useful and I highly recommend it, even if it doesn't go deep into the details like other books.

From time to time I find myself coming back to this one, it's short and concise. Of course if you want to go deeper this one doesn't cut the deal

Interesting indeed. Definitely weeds out applicants who are not familiar with the command line.

I know it's a brave new world, but there isn't a single working developer that isn't at least aware of the command line, right?

There are lots of developers that have a build system with ide etc set up for them and never touch the CLI for years. Think iOS and .net

I'd say "aware" and "familiar with" are two totally different groups. And while I'd agree that "aware" seems like it'd approach 100% of the general programmer pop., from my experience "familiar with" is a surprisingly and saddeningly lower than 100% percentage.

It also weeds out people who don't have time for "cute" little games like that.

Sounds like it might also be their way of weeding out people who aren't going to be a culture fit.

It takes literally 10 seconds to run `ls -la` and `cat` some files to get the information. If that's a problem for an applicant, it's a good exclusion to the funnel.

Like sibling says, on mobile it's a pain. In general, when I look at a job posting, I just want to skim it. I don't want to interact with the webpage in any other way than "reading".

I get it, this is clever. It supposedly weeds out poor applicants. But speaking for myself it just strikes me as annoying.

Do people really apply for jobs on mobile? If I came across it on mobile, I'd just go, oh okay, and read it later on my laptop or desktop.

I'm an admitted anti-mobile person though. I am exceptionally skeptical that the mobile revolution will adequately replace the keyboard/mouse combination for high productivity tasks, and don't wish to see design move entirely in that direction.

No, but I do a lot of reading on mobile.

If I came across it on mobile, how would I even know if I wanted to read it later?

I tried opening this on mobile and it was a horrible experience.

We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

> We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

Most developers do?

Actually, grepping necessary information from the files is more efficient than reading a bloated web page from job site with infinite scrolling where your Ctrl + F is not working.

To be honest it didn't really take more than a few seconds to get the relevant information. So time really isn't the limiting factor here..

It's not supposed to be. It's like proving you can write a hello world. program.

But it's literally

`cat open-positions/devtools-frontend-engineer.txt`

I also hate games, but this is literally obvious. I spent 3 seconds tab autocompleting the file.

This is a great idea. The initial runway to get a product off the ground is a huge hurdle for every start up. I've personally been doing lots of contract and side work to fund my start up and it's a big distraction. Any one have any idea when Tiny Seed applications open?

Thank you! Probably January.

Congrats! Good luck in the interview.

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