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Ask HN: Experience with job hunting on starfighters.io?

59 点作者 ReadingInBed大约 9 年前
I am curious to hear your experience hiring or getting hired using https://www.starfighters.io.

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danielvf大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m the third person to finish all the current Stockfighter levels. (I also coded a MineCraft visualizer, a physical hardware stock trading device with an ESP8622 plus cardboard and duct tape, and helped organize PVP games.) I had fun.<p>When I first finished, the challenges had just launched and the Stockfighter team was busy putting out fires. I think they switched to recruiting mode about a month later.<p>Patrick of Starfighter sent me an email with an invitation to have a phone call. We talked about the game, then about a job opportunity. If I had been looking for a job, the discussed company sounded great - a distributed team and interesting problems to solve.<p>I think they spend a week on recruiting, a week on signing up companies, a week on coding the site, and a week on other stuff before cycling back again. This means that it may be awhile from the time you &quot;win&quot; to the time someone gets in touch with you.<p>Both the players and the hiring companies are high quality. Last time I checked, less than 1% of the people who completed the first level actually finished the last. It seems to be a pretty strong filter.<p>Pros: Fun game, good hiring companies, great players. Cons: I would not expect to be hired right away if I was needing a job.
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tptacek大约 9 年前
Hey, all. Thanks for asking about this. I can give a pretty simple answer here:<p>We are still figuring this stuff out. As an actual business, it&#x27;s early days for us. We have a thingy we send out to candidates who want to consider working with us that goes into this in some detail.<p>You should play with the Starfighter CTF stuff if you are interested in CTF stuff (or trading, or, any day now, low-level programming and AVR). You should <i>not</i> do our CTF stuff if you&#x27;re just trying to get a better job. Maybe someday in the future, if we&#x27;re wildly successful, this will change, but right now the best mental model for us is &quot;we&#x27;re a goofy game company that does some recruiting on the side&quot;.<p>I have a lot of strong feelings about hiring process, ineffective and inhumane interviews, work sample testing, and recruiting underserved demographics. I&#x27;ve written some of them up. I think I&#x27;ve also given the impression that what we&#x27;re trying to do with Starfighter is to singlehandedly fix all of that. Nope!<p>If you&#x27;re doing large-scale hiring and you want advice on how to structure your process based on our experience doing hiring (for instance, at NCC&#x2F;Matasano), please feel free to reach out.
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airza大约 9 年前
I finished the levels during the beta and have the first unique badge (a timing attack no longer possible on the last level). I was looking for a really specific set of job requirements and patrick both 1)was totally willing to accommodate and 2)really on my side during the application process. They got me a great interview at a large, well known company- who didn&#x27;t end up making an offer, but had a great hiring process.<p>It was overall great and exactly what it said on the tin.
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matheist大约 9 年前
I finished the levels during beta. I had already been in communication with Patrick via email (giving beta feedback), and after I finished the last level I sent him a note saying that I was actively looking for work.<p>We had a chat over skype, talked about my experience and what I was looking for. He very quickly lined me up an interview with a very well-known company (well-known, in this case, can be interpreted as &quot;thousands of search results on HN&quot;).<p>I had a 15-minute non-technical phone call with an internal recruiter, and then we scheduled an onsite interview straightaway.<p>I ended up not getting an offer. Not sure whether that&#x27;s due to my having an off day, or them picking up on legitimate qualities they didn&#x27;t want, or merely the tendency towards avoiding false positives at the expense of false negatives.<p>In any case, I have since found a job I&#x27;m very excited about (starting soon), to which I was connected through Triplebyte. Triplebyte&#x27;s model for recruiting is slightly different from Starfighters and won&#x27;t appeal to everyone (though they are probably closer to one another than to any other player in their field). Triplebyte does have an advantage in that they got started a bit earlier, and, importantly, have more clients. (Though only YC companies currently, I think.) They used this advantage concretely by lining me up with several interviews at once. I don&#x27;t think that that&#x27;s something that Starfighters has done; I think they&#x27;ve been connecting candidates with companies in serial.
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solutionyogi大约 9 年前
This comment is tangentially related to the topic.<p>Thomas and Patrick:<p>First I want to thank you for trying to address one of the most frustrating part of a developer&#x27;s career.<p>As you know very well, after Silicon Valley, it&#x27;s the finance companies in NYC area who pay top notch developer salaries. Even though I am a competent developer, it was quite a struggle for me to break in to the finance industry (They only wanted to hire people with finance experience). It took me a little while but I was able to break in. Now I am over that hump but I am faced with another problem. I have been working in &#x27;Back office&#x27; for hedge funds for several years and would like to transition to &#x27;Front office&#x27; and I am faced with the same problem again. I am not able to switch roles because I don&#x27;t have experience working in the front office. The Stock Fighter CTF is a perfect way to demonstrate the relevant ability to prospective employers. Do you guys have any plan to work with hedge funds&#x2F;investment banks for your recruiting platform?
booop大约 9 年前
The levels are fun but if you&#x27;re job hunting and that&#x27;s your primary objective, there are better places to hunt.