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Spoke to a candidate who had a solid SWE resume. Throughout the entire call all he did was bash all of his previous employers. Every time I tried to guide and direct the convo towards his skills & experience, he went right back to ranting. Even if you’re right as a candidate, don’t this. It’s simply just not a good look.

1 - Quality > Quantity It's better to send one, targeted high quality application to your dream startup than blasting your resume to hundreds of opportunities Most applications to a rando applicant tracking system at a startup that's doing well are dead on arrival

I spent the last month trying to answer the impossible question: What makes someone likable? Below, I break down 9 techniques that will help you dial up the charisma in your everyday life:

Here's a new list of 25 early-stage startups with less than 50 employees, all are founded by repeat founders who sold their previous companies. Some haven’t posted public job postings, but I confirmed ALL are hiring: 1) Natoma natoma.id (Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore) 2) Gestalt gestalt.com (New York / Tel Aviv) 3) Kitchen Robotics k-robo.com (Miami) 4) Gelt joingelt.com (US / Tel Aviv) 5) ClimbCode climbcode.com (London / Austin) 6) Kick kick.co (remote) 7) Agave Health agavehealth.com (New York) 8) Distill distill.fyi (remote) 9) Moxie joinmoxie.com (remote) 10) Area 2 Farms area2farms.com (D.C.) 11) Phave phave.com (remote US) 12) Splash splashventures.com (remote) 13) Trumpet sendtrumpet.com (London) 14) SimpleClosure simpleclosure.com (US) 15) Adonis adonis.io (NYC) 16) Aircover aircover.ai (Bay Area / remote west coast) 17) ComplexChaos complexchaos.ai (Bay Area) 18) Opti opti.ai (US) 19) Slingshot slingshot.xyz (London / New York) 20) Orita orita.ai (New York) 21) Gather getgather.com (Bay Area) 22) Decent decent.com (US remote) 23) Linx Security linxsecurity.io (Tel Aviv) 24) Oscilar oscilar.com (US remote) 25) Augment augment.co (Seattle) more @nextplayso

Applied for and got a job I was under-qualified for and guess what they did? Train me. And guess what? The job makes sense now. Apply for that job you don’t think you deserve, sis.