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:http://blog.sfgate.com/gettowork/2014/10/31/staffup-offers-a...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.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.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.We ended up making eight interview offers (several candidates decided to work elsewhere), and we hired one engineer.The whole event was inspired by this essay: http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234