Resumes suck for hiring engineers
The startup where I serve as in-house recruiter, FutureAdvisor, recently ran an experiment in hiring without resumes. It was called StaffupWeekend. The Chronicle's careers blogger wrote about it here:<p><a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/gettowork/2014/10/31/staffup-offers-a-new-way-to-network-interview/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.sfgate.com/gettowork/2014/10/31/staffup-offers-a...</a><p>We recognized that resumes were poor indicators of performance. In fact, we believe that the only thing that correlates with performance -- is performance. A study that Google released last year supports that.<p>The solution we came up with was to invite people to work on projects for a weekend at no cost other than their time. They chose what they wanted to work on together.<p>In a sense, we were batch processing applicants while gathering much richer information than resumes provide. Strong candidates we didn't hire, we shared in the Sequoia network.<p>We ended up making eight interview offers (several candidates decided to work elsewhere), and we hired one engineer.<p>The whole event was inspired by this essay: <a href="http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234" rel="nofollow">http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234</a>