I don't get why you have to go to such extremes to get hired. In my experience getting hired at a startup is like getting hired anywhere else - in fact generally it's easier. You send in a CV, attend one or two interviews (personal and technical), and get a decision. I'm not sure what it's like now but weren't companies finding it really difficult to find engineers in SV not that long ago? That should make things even easier.
Since the destructive idea started that one bad hire was a disaster for a company, it has been a lot more difficult than that. It is probably a major factor in the talent shortage, as companies are no longer willing to take any chances or train anyone, even for jobs that would take four hours of training!
I've watched companies in the last year I interviewed with wait and suffer? a year to fill a position, even though I could have done their silly rest-api job with one arm behind my back, haha.
> Since the destructive idea started that one bad hire
> was a disaster for a company, it has been a lot more
> difficult than that.
I experienced this first-hand a few years ago. I had a few friends and former colleagues working there and was qualified. One of the six interviewers was known to be difficult (even to outsiders) and sank me. The CTO personally apologized to me face-to-face but decided to uphold the 100% agreement tradition.
