Jesse Spivak

They pay for the homework, though.

They pay for the homework, though.

Yeah, I mean, so far, obviously hiring has been slower than typical for Ibotta, but we are still hiring. And so far, the feedback from candidates has been really interesting because we'll get unsolicited emails about how much people like the process and how they hope that this is the direction that the industry goes in.

Yeah, I mean, so far, obviously hiring has been slower than typical for Ibotta, but we are still hiring. And so far, the feedback from candidates has been really interesting because we'll get unsolicited emails about how much people like the process and how they hope that this is the direction that the industry goes in.

a lot of folks who are interviewing with us are interviewing at other places as well. And I see this as like a competitive advantage for us, right? Does this buy us like $10,000 in salary or $5,000 in salary or something like that?

a lot of folks who are interviewing with us are interviewing at other places as well. And I see this as like a competitive advantage for us, right? Does this buy us like $10,000 in salary or $5,000 in salary or something like that?

Like, does this make our company more, you know, once you get to a certain point, there's like diminishing returns on all these different levers that a company can offer to a developer. And I think that this is maybe an unexplored lever or a lever where there's a ton of room to gain. And when, Someone goes through our process and comes out feeling like, hey, I'm going to kick butt there.

Like, does this make our company more, you know, once you get to a certain point, there's like diminishing returns on all these different levers that a company can offer to a developer. And I think that this is maybe an unexplored lever or a lever where there's a ton of room to gain. And when, Someone goes through our process and comes out feeling like, hey, I'm going to kick butt there.

The people there are super nice. They didn't make me feel like an idiot. And they contrast that with other interview experiences that they've recently had. Hopefully that will play in our favor.

The people there are super nice. They didn't make me feel like an idiot. And they contrast that with other interview experiences that they've recently had. Hopefully that will play in our favor.

I love that image of shoving a framework under someone's fingernails, Luke. But the thing that I noticed, and I've done a lot of interviews that I've done, I would say easily 200 interviews, over the past two years. We do a ton of hiring, so it's crazy.

I love that image of shoving a framework under someone's fingernails, Luke. But the thing that I noticed, and I've done a lot of interviews that I've done, I would say easily 200 interviews, over the past two years. We do a ton of hiring, so it's crazy.

And the thing that I noticed is that when we were asking people to whiteboard, to answer these tougher algorithm questions, I didn't always see a one-to-one correlation between the people who crush that kind of question and the people who I really enjoy working with in either direction. There are false positives and false negatives.

And the thing that I noticed is that when we were asking people to whiteboard, to answer these tougher algorithm questions, I didn't always see a one-to-one correlation between the people who crush that kind of question and the people who I really enjoy working with in either direction. There are false positives and false negatives.

And I just found there to be way too much noise in that type of diagnostic tool for me to really make a strong decision that I felt confident with that proved out over time. And I'm hoping that this is a remedy for that.

And I just found there to be way too much noise in that type of diagnostic tool for me to really make a strong decision that I felt confident with that proved out over time. And I'm hoping that this is a remedy for that.

Yeah, there was a RailsConf talk last year. I believe the guy's name is Eric. I'll throw it in the chat in a second. He's from TestDouble. And he talked about, TestDouble is like a Ruby consultancy based out of Columbus, I believe. And he talked about their hiring process

Yeah, there was a RailsConf talk last year. I believe the guy's name is Eric. I'll throw it in the chat in a second. He's from TestDouble. And he talked about, TestDouble is like a Ruby consultancy based out of Columbus, I believe. And he talked about their hiring process

And more in the sense of our goal is to build a process that lets candidates show off their strengths and as opposed to helping us find their weaknesses. And that talk really informed our process at ibotta. We're trying to find people's strengths and trying to figure out where they're going to be able to make the most impact in our company.

And more in the sense of our goal is to build a process that lets candidates show off their strengths and as opposed to helping us find their weaknesses. And that talk really informed our process at ibotta. We're trying to find people's strengths and trying to figure out where they're going to be able to make the most impact in our company.