Ask HN: Founders whose startups failed, do you experience bias in interviews?
Over the past few years I've been seeing a steady increase in the number of resumes that pass in front of my eyes that have the last job experience at 1-2 years with the title "CEO" or "President" and this very much signals "failed startup". Several of us who are part of the hiring process (note: we're all programmers) find ourselves having to try and ignore certain biases we've been noticing: "Oh, failed company, they must not be very good..." "Is someone who's used to being boss of the company going to handle taking orders?" etc. And the bias appears to be worse the older the applicant is (that's just a gut feel, I have no data to back that up). Obviously these are false, and we take time to stop and remind each other of the many quality traits a startup founder brings (and the experiences a failed one brings as
Why it failed
Over the past few years I've been seeing a steady increase in the number of resumes that pass in front of my eyes that have the last job experience at 1-2 years with the title "CEO" or "President" and this very much signals "failed startup". Sev
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- massung
- Ended
- 2014
- Source
- hackernews