Reminds of this study on speed dating:<p><i>When men rotated, women (the ones sitting) were more selective. But when women did the rotating, men (the ones sitting) were more selective. Nothing else changed in the experiment, so it was the act of doing the approaching (or being approached) that helped determine a person’s selectivity toward their partner. </i><p><a href="http://www.livescience.com/culture/090929-women-dating.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.livescience.com/culture/090929-women-dating.html</a><p>So that fair should be good for the job seekers.
The number of companies looking to hire at this event exceeds the number of job seekers. If you are an unemployed HN reader in the Bay Area you _have_ to attend this event.
This is must be a new trend of ego-stroking stories on HN: first there was the "Interview your potential employer" story, then yesterdays "Ask them for code samples", and now this.<p>Look, if you're unemployed in this market, you can play coy all you want and "tease" would be employers, but that will not in anyway rewrite the power inequality to your favor. If you want "power", start your own company, freelance, or work for yourself in any other form. But right now, going through these lengths to play "hard to get" just makes you look like one of those unattractive people at night clubs who think being obnoxious to you makes them sexy.
But the final pairing between companies and seekers is still going to be extremely asymmetrically one-to-many... aside from stroking developers' egos, how is this model superior?