If you're an engineer and you want a job in an early-stage startup. Here's an easy way to stand out from the crowd
→ Open their website
→ See if there are any coming soon features
→ Implement a basic version of the feature and reach out to the founder(s) with a live demo and git repo.
💡 Tip - Reach out to the founder(s) on a platform where they have the least number of followers or they're most active.
This way your odds of at least getting an interview will be very high. Why? because hiring is super challenging and most probably the founders are struggling to hire good talent (trust me it's always the case).
Founders look for people with high agency and ownership and you're clearly showing these traits.
This is exactly what our recent hire did. Even before our first call, he built a basic POC of our coming soon feature. Even though it wasn't "prod ready" but that doesn't matter.
It showed me I can rely on this person to work independently and get things done.
He joined us last week and yesterday we released a small chrome extension that he built as part of his take-home assignment.
I wish more people would go this extra mile but most people don't.
It might sound like a lot of work (it is) but people aren't magically gonna find you. You need to stand out, one way or the other 🤷♂️
That's it. I feel like a threadboi after writing this but I thought I needed to share it.
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PS - I'm hiring two cracked full-stack engineers with the above traits, hit me up if you feel you're the right person.
anurag[at]slidesai[dot]io
💻 Min 2yrs of experience
💰 ₹10L - ₹20LPA
🏖️ Remote but 6 days a week for now (Yeah I know)
Stack:
- JS/TS, React, TailwindCSS
- Nodejs, Postgres, GraphQL, Featherjs
- Optional - AppScript, Docker, K8s, GCP/Azure, Cloudflare Workers
🟢 Bonus points if you know LLM, prompt engineering, and all that jazz