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Elaine Wherry
Personal blog · ewherry.comcareerstartupsdesign
Elaine Wherry's personal blog at ewherry.com covers career, startups and design. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Recruiter Honeypot”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Elaine Wherry's posts on recruiting: her fake-profile 'recruiter honeypot' experiment and analysis of recruiter messages, plus a follow-up on the glass ceiling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Recruiter Honeypot5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-06-26
- The Best Recruiters – followup to The Recruiter Honeypot3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-08-07
- What I Learned as an Oompa Loompa2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-30
- Top myths of Silicon Valley2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-13
What Hacker News says?
If you haven't read Elaine Wherry's post "The Recruiter Honeypot," you haven't read the best one about recruiters. Check it out here: http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/ A lot has been written about recruiter incentives in these comments, but the market is still clearing even with extremely high fees. The reason bad recruiters can still get paid really well is because there's zero transparency and…
Comment linking /2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
on “In Defense of Recruiters”Submitted The Recruiter Honeypot as a story · 655 points
HN discussionWherry's original blog post was better. She has a nice graph of where she sourced all of her Javascript dev recruits. http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
Comment linking /2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
on “The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer”Submitted The Best Recruiters – followup to The Recruiter Honeypot as a story · 82 points
HN discussionThe author also posted the following follow up, also worth a read: http://www.ewherry.com/2013/10/follow-up/
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on “Elaine Wherry: Why I Now Believe the Glass Ceiling Is Real”Submitted What I Learned as an Oompa Loompa as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRead this before deciding http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
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on “Ask HN: Using Technical Recruiters to Hire Engineers”Submitted The Recruiter Honeypot (2012) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionObligatory mention of Elaine Wherry's recruiter posts: http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/ http://www.ewherry.com/2012/08/the-best-recruiters-followup/
Comment linking /2012/08/the-best-recruiters-followup/
on “Ask HN: How much do tech recruiters make?”- ot · 2015-09-17
Submitted The Recruiter Honeypot as a story · 4 points
HN discussion If you haven't read these posts by Elaine Wherry, you should stop what you're doing and spend 10 minutes to go through it. It's a great piece on her setting up a fake LinkedIn profile, and analyzing all the recruiter messages she got. It then gives insights into how to message developers to get a good response (hint: tailored, personalized messages go a long way). http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypo…
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on “Ask HN [Developers]: Recruiters on Linkedin”Submitted 100 Mistakes as a startup founder as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The recruiter honeypot (2012) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top myths of Silicon Valley as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Working in a Chocolate Factory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preserving Startup awesomeness: why metrics aren’t enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First startup ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Myths of Silicon Valley as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The best recruiters – followup (Aug 2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The primal code for being scary on Halloween as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Elaine: A letter to myself on the first day of my career. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Arranging Things (for visual designers) as a story · 1 points
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