I like that and wish that was the new resume practice since I'd bet someone could get a lot more signal from hearing me talk about why I'd be a good fit rather than ATS screening my PDF out
The bad news is that I bet listening to 50+ video pitches is more exhausting than reading 50+ PDFs
LLMs don't make up identical resumes twice. For example, the second position on both resumes has this description: "Worked on first class video conferencing platform for qualitative research using Typescript, Go and React.js."
What are the odds that GPT makes up that same copy for two different users?
Re: calling them -- There is no phone number listed on either resume! Also makes me suspicious this is a scam...
Not saying this isn’t a scam, but on the phone number thing…
I sometimes leave my phone number off my CV, because
(a) I hate phone calls: the sound quality is shit and I have trouble understanding people. I much prefer zoom/teams/whatever
(b) I hate it when people (either hiring managers or recruiters) phone me while I’m in an interview… not handing out my phone number to all and sundry helps me avoid that
I’d really hate it if people interpreted “no phone number on CV” as meaning “probably a scammer” :-(
(I thought) We had a secure approach (in terms of guarded 2FA credentials, no credential sharing, security training, etc), but this has me concerned. The only place we store phone numbers of employees is in Gusto, to my knowledge, plus my personal Contacts and whoever that employee has shared their contact with personally.
Very cool product and demo — congrats Tom! I’d love to hear your thoughts about customer success moving to Slack generally. What businesses are your clients, mostly? Is unthread a good fit for B2B companies with high ACV?
[This is Julia, Eric’s cofounder] We have filled out multiple counter-notices. The first attempt was the recommended action in Google’s initial takedown notice: send an email to dmca-agent@google.com with specific reference to the ticket number (2-1881000033144). I wrote a lengthy response explaining why the claims were unfounded in most cases.
After a few days, they got back to us saying actually we needed to file a counter notice form, which involves pasting the URLs one by one into a web form with an explanation for why the page did not violate copyright. So Eric and I split up the URLs and did that, one by one, for 317 URLs
We filed the counter-notice on Thursday. As of the time of this comment (Monday afternoon), we have not heard back, and our pages have not been reinstated
[This is Julia, Eric’s cofounder] 317 Kapwing webpages were taken down, but we still have others (including this blog post) that show up on Google Search. As the article explains, our home page, blog, and EDU page are among those that are de-listed
We hired four people shortly after raising our seed round (in addition to the two cofounders). Two of those early employees are still at the company 4.5 years later. One is the CTO and one is the Head of Product.
The other two left within 2 years of joining. One early employee quit before the one year vest cliff. The other left after about 18 months to start his own company (which ended up not working out).
Our actual decision was to ask them to send in a video introduction before we schedule a phone screen with one of our engineers.