Show HN: Culture fit tests to hire better devs (without more video calls)
greatfit.aiStory time: at my first company, we needed to hire fast. We just didn't have time to interview every candidate, so we used resumes to screen out candidates and made a short list for behavioral interviews (as most people do).
But here's the thing: a bad resume does not mean that someone is a bad candidate. Developers are NOT marketers -- even though we sometimes like to think we are .
So fast forward 4 years, I'm helping a friend hire devs for his new project and meet with the perfect candidate (Dan). Dan is driven, smart, great communicator, all of that good stuff. So we made him an offer on the spot and then he let me know that he had actually applied to work for me 4 years ago, and never got an interview..
I lost out on 4 years of working with an incredibly talented individual, and I was upset.
So I shipped something!
Introducing GreatFit.ai: we help hiring managers and founders find Great Fits -- not just good coders.
Companies create a link to a chatbot (we brief the bot to ask the candidate for help with a relevant coding problem), share it with candidates, and read the transcripts (and summaries).
I guarantee you that if I had read a transcript of this guy mentoring a junior developer I wouldn't have missed out on working with him.
If you're hiring developers and have a hunch that you're filtering out great candidates, I'd love to chat to you and see if we can help (the product needs some awesome early adopter types if you're down!). If you're a developer, I'd love for you to play around with our prompt here and let me know how it goes! "Are you a good coder but also a freak weirdo who never wants to go on zoom and show your freaky face, and they are making you do a bullshit AI screening session where you talk to a bot for ten minutes that is trying to sniff out your freakish awkwardness? Then we are introducing GreatGreatFitFit.ai: we help freak weirdos walk right past these filters as if you are a tall smooth-talking attractive person wearing a high-vis vest and carrying a ladder and somehow also a clipboard. If you're looking for jobs and have a hunch that you're missing opportunities because you're such a weirdo freak, try our product and find your GreatGreatFitFit today!"