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Thoughts on recruiting

Posted by whbboyd
Tags: work, tech industry, hiring, jobs, recruitment, author.mark mcgranaghan
https://markmcgranaghan.com/recruiting

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Published
Dec 31 2019
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4 comments

  1. [4]
    joplin
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    Interesting take on things. I was expecting it to be garbage from a recruiter or more of the cargo-cult stuff he mentions. I was curious about one thing, though. What does this mean: What are...

    Interesting take on things. I was expecting it to be garbage from a recruiter or more of the cargo-cult stuff he mentions.

    I was curious about one thing, though. What does this mean:

    Capture-the-flag competitions are wildly underused both for identifying talent and signaling that the hosting company is a clueful employer.

    What are "capture-the-flag" competitions in this context?

    1. [3]
      TheJorro
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      I think it's referring to this information security exercise.

      I think it's referring to this information security exercise.

      1 vote
      1. [2]
        joplin
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        Thanks for that! It didn't sound like the recruiting article was specific to InfoSec, though. So I guess they just generally means competitions to build stuff related to your business, then?

        Thanks for that! It didn't sound like the recruiting article was specific to InfoSec, though. So I guess they just generally means competitions to build stuff related to your business, then?

        1 vote
        1. modern_prometheus
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          I guess the software development equivalent of a CTF would be a hackathon, so yes.

          I guess the software development equivalent of a CTF would be a hackathon, so yes.

          2 votes