Hey HN! I'm Jesse, the head of engineering at Strive Talent. My email is jesse@strivetalent.com.
Strive Talent is a seed-stage, mission-driven startup dedicated to giving everyone a fair shot at a great career. Right now we help companies around the US staff sales and customer support jobs with candidates that would typically be overlooked. A typical hiring manager spends ~6 seconds per resume to evaluate whether a candidate should be given an interview. Instead, we administer a combination of cognitive tests, work-sample tests, and phone screenings, which allow us to evaluate a candidate according to the traits that actually determine their ability to do the job.
Our team is small, but we're well-funded: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/24/stressing-aptitude-over-ac....
If you're interested, please send a resume and a paragraph explaining what it is about Strive that resonates with you to: jesse@strivetalent.com
Strive is a great place to join if any of the following are true:
• You care about connecting people with dignified livelihoods.
• You care about people getting jobs based on their ability to do the work, and not their pedigree.
• You want to come in to work each day and be able to ask, "How many people got a better job yesterday because of us?"
• You want to join an early-stage startup where there are still a lot of open product and technical questions.
Our core platform is built using Rails, React, PostreSQL, and other standard moving parts. Experience is those technologies isn't required, but evidence of skill and adaptability are.