Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret: AngelList is disrupting the hiring industry

&quot;Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret: AngelList is disrupting the hiring industry&quot;, or &quot;AngelList is useful for hiring people (as just about everyone already knows)&quot;<p>Is AngelList Jobs unknown (never mind a secret!) amongst start up founders (who generally have AngelList profile for both themselves and their companies)?<p>Is this <i>job board</i> &quot;disrupting&quot; the hiring industry which is composed of other job boards and recruiters that post to other job boards?

The last time I looked at them, the salaries and equity shares advertised on many of their job listings were mostly chuckle-worthy at best. Some were appallingly lowball. If they&#x27;re truly &quot;disrupting&quot; the hiring industry, it certainly isn&#x27;t to the benefit of the labor pool.

I imagine if it become mainstream, it&#x27;ll not have the same level of talent and it&#x27;d become just another board. It will remain special so long as it does not broaden.<p>So long as it focuses on the creme, then it&#x27;ll disrupt that &#x27;market&#x27; but it cannot disrupt the &#x27;hiring industry&#x27; because at that point, it would become diluted and another &#x27;disruptor&#x27; would cater to the &#x27;cream&#x27;.

It&#x27;s great on the applicant side, too. I got my last job from AngelList, and they have gotten me the best-quality leads (apart from referrals from friends) this time around as well. The profile has most of the relevant information for job-seekers that you would never get from an intro from a recruiter (investors, total investment, etc).<p>Salaries are always negotiable, but seeing them up-front gives you a good idea of what the company is looking at paying.

AngelList is acting as a niche job board. It&#x27;s definitely cool, but I wouldn&#x27;t call it disruptive or revolutionary. As soon as people figure out how to use it as an efficient hiring channel, AngelList will become saturated with companies hiring &amp; candidates looking, just like every other formerly disruptive hiring channel.

I dunno. I tried advertising on AngelList for someone to make big-ticket sales to big companies. I keep getting responses from people who claim to be able to grow website traffic.

This is my favorite bit:<p>&quot;I emailed everyone I knew, posted the job on LinkedIn, got it posted to the jobs list at several universities, and also posted on some paid sites. End result: nothing very good to show for all the effort.&quot;<p>Exactly how much effort was &#x27;all the effort&#x27;? Did it take you all of 2 hours to post the job on several sites?

If anyone else finds the poor contrast &#x2F; thin fonts hard to read, ctrl+a to select all text is as always a neat trick.

We&#x27;ve had great success hiring from AngelList. More than half of our team at this point.

I propose we change every occurrence of &quot;disrupt&quot; to &quot;perturb&quot;. Or better yet: &quot;Angellist is promoting perturbations&quot; Seems more appropriate, and I&#x27;m sick of seeing &quot;disrupt&quot; everywhere.

I got my current job in Germany via AngelList, although I was living in UK at the time. I got several other interesting options in Europe too. It&#x27;s definitely a great tool in my book.