I run repher.me which is a simple app to give/get referrals. I gathered some data on successful/unsuccessful candidates on the platform. Around 77% of candidates generated interest (someone clicked on the “refer” button). Around 20% of candidates generated significant interest (over 3 people clicked on the button or shared their contact info). I decided to compare these two sets of candidates. See the chart for results. Summary: people prefer bay area/seattle/nyc software engineers/product managers who work at FAANGMULA Some notes: - Verified workplace increased referral rate by 4x - Foreign was mostly Indian candidates - Unsuccessful candidates had more elaborate job titles and worked at companies I never heard of - US/Canada major city includes Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Portland, Toronto, Vancouver etc.. - Other features like school, years of experience, linkedin/github/leetcode had low correlation - Seemingly good candidates who got 0 interest applied to small startups (no potential referrers)
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I had 2 people reach out to me offering me a referral. Thanks a lot for creating this useful platform. It has been very helpful for me 😊 Some suggestions: 1. I understand how adding a company name adds credibility and is necessary. However, not being able to provide my personal email I'd can be a bummer because people reach out to me on my professional id which is tracked. I reply to them using my personal id. 2. Suggestions from people working in the target companies on similar positions will be valued. It can also boost the changes of getting an interview call (in my case, I didn't get an interview call even after the referral).
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Hey op found something very interesting ni e work. Appreciate that 😊👌🏻
What are examples of “elaborate job titles”? I’ve been wondering if I need to change my job title on my resume because my official title is misleading.
“Senior member of consulting staff”, “Technical solutions architect”, “Embedded machine learning engineer”
I include my official job title (Lead Scientist) then also put “Software Development Manager” which tracks my actual duties. Every person I work with has the title ‘XXX Scientist’, doesn’t help me get traction in the outside world.
I'm a student with Cs degree from a good university(in India). My dream is to work in an international location as a software engineer. I genuinely love coding and interacting with people from diverse backgrounds How can I reach my dream? Other than Google and Facebook, which other companies give new grads this opportunity?
Good job on the website and the idea execution but lol on the graphs. You need to hire a data scientist: 1. Tech is a part of fangmula, so your pie chart has overlapping data points. Solution - create non-overlapping labels 2. Software engineer obviously forms a big chunk of your user base, which is evident from the second chart which shows tje majority of people who got (or did not get) a referral belong to that category. Solution - Analyze people who got (or did not get) referrals as a % of total users in that category. Example - 60% of software engineers got 3+ referrals, 20% got 1-3 referrals, and 20% got 0 referrals. 3. Userbase insight isn't crisp. Solution - Split the location into Bay, Seaatle, NY, and others since almost 3/4th of your user base is in these major cities. 4. Insights on the referrer would also be very helpful. Like company name, ethnicity etc so you can target them better? I am not trying to nitpick but just mentioning things I noticed so you can use those insights to better analyze data. I am a data scientist so these things catch my attention real quick 😊
1. I should’ve clarified, tech refers to non-faangmula tech 2. Sure thing 3. There’s no obvious correlation differences with those 3 regions 4. Will do
I appreciate the unique content, OP, but are there any *interesting* takeaways from the data?
I was surprised that students don’t fare well on the platform, even when they were from top schools
Also surprised that product managers do really well