Comment by steveklabnik
4 hours ago
> If our own experience at Fly.io is anything to go by, they are getting an avalanche of applications for every role they have open.
It is not just that: it's an avalanche of very high quality applicants. If it were a lot of poor ones, that would be easier! I'm sure yinz get lots of great ones too, but I do think that there is a meaningful difference between "thousands of resume spam people you'd never hire" and "hundreds of good applicants, dozens of great ones". It's more than just the numbers, though the numbers do matter.
> That doesn't excuse ghosting (something we did a bunch even when trying hard to avoid it)
I fully agree, both in that it's not an excuse for ghosting, but also that the reality of things is that sometimes things take longer than they should, even though that sucks. And while you can try to avoid it, and Oxide does, startups are very difficult.
No, yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about too.
I don't expect anybody to have any sympathy for the plight of nerd-popular and well-capitalized tech companies. I'm only saying that understanding all the accurate descriptive claims about these processes will help you make better predictions about the world. "I got ghosted by Oxide" is in fact not a very useful input to the question of how they treat their team.