36 pointsby wyxuan7 months ago7 comments
  • nothercastle7 months ago
    I do think people need to dissect his pitch and his resume and learn from him. He might be a scammer but the same technique would work for legitimate people seeking employment
  • potamic7 months ago
    I dunno, a better lesson to take away from this is, don't fall for sales. I think more people will do better to learn to evaluate others by what they do rather than what they say. If you don't know better, reputation and first-hand references will give you much better indicators than someone's own words.
    • dyauspitr7 months ago
      This guy had the sales chops and the ability to write good code (as pointed out in the tweets). Sounds like the complete package.
      • potamic7 months ago
        If that were the case, the sales wouldn't have mattered in the first place. The article does suggest cold emailing as a tactic, so if someone is looking at a stock standard cold email template and thinking, "hey, this guy sounds exciting!", they're gonna have a bad time.
        • dyauspitr7 months ago
          Have you tried getting a job in this market?
          • potamic7 months ago
            I think you're misunderstanding my point. I was talking from the receiver's point of view, not the initiator. As far as the job market is concerned, when the supply/demand is so skewed and everyone is doing this kind of sales, it gets reduced to a game of chance more than anything else.
  • worthless-trash7 months ago
    Site is bugged, but after thinking about the title, I don't know how much I want to learn from a scammer.
  • 7 months ago
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  • dyauspitr7 months ago
    This man is a folk hero
  • nlawalker7 months ago
    tl;dr - the personalized cover letter, much maligned by job seekers nowadays (https://www.google.com/search?q=cover+letter+dead), is actually incredibly effective for applying to small companies (of the size where the inboxes of the CEOs and founders aren't heavily filtered and managed) if you keep it short and human and send it directly to those folks.
    • polishdude207 months ago
      The problem is, these CEOs of small companies are already inundated with spam or they're super busy to respond to you.
  • jxjnskkzxxhx7 months ago
    Id be way more interested in hearing the store how a rando is allowed to work in the USA. He didn't have work permission.