Sriram Krishnan Praises Personalized Demo For OpenAI Job Interviews
A hiring thread on X turned into a complaint about how often bookmarked career advice never makes it into an actual application.
In a series of posts on X, Gabriel said one of his earlier career-advice posts drew 14,000 bookmarks, but "zero" of the hundreds of applicants to his company used the personalized-demo approach he had been recommending. He followed that with a broader claim from his own interviewing experience, writing that after interviewing 50-plus people, it was rare for candidates to describe their work in concrete, high-precision terms. The immediate spark is the gap Gabriel described between strong engagement and apparent follow-through.
i made some of the most viral career posts about how to best show off how good you are to any job it got 14k bookmarks, and then zero out of hundreds of people used it to apply to my company come on man
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