Web3 hiring culture. What can we improve? | HackerNoon
AI summary of the linked articleThe author, a Web3 growth marketing lead, argues that hiring culture in Web3 needs to be reinvented, citing a mismatch between candidate and company expectations. Daria's LinkedIn poll of 11 people found that smooth hiring experiences are rare, and she describes repeated "hiring ghosting" and feedback such as requirements to come from tier 1 companies or to have 20,000 Twitter followers. The article gives three reasons for the difficulties: projects demand crypto-native candidates, founders prefer alumni of well-known companies, and the industry is inexperienced at hiring non-technical staff. Carsten Munk, a board director at the Cartesi Foundation, says he values problem-solving over leetcode tests and treats inconsistent stories as a red flag. |
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1 comment  Seems like the crypto hiring culture isn't that different from the normal hiring culture. Hiring ghosting is (unfortunately) pretty normal everywhere. Recruiters talk with tens of candidates and - despite good intentions - it's hard to give feedback to each of them. Some even want to do it, but some people respond with: "I think I met your criteria, you should misunderstood!", and then it becomes a longer discussion. Looking for industry insiders is also pretty common in tech, pharma, or finance. In marketing, it's critical because every industry has its own tone, lingo, customer types, and so on. Tier 1 alumni bias is also common outside crypto. It often ends badly for startups because running a 10-person marketing ops team at e.g., Coinbase differs from building a startup marketing from scratch. So if you have the candidate with the former XP, and want him to run a startup, it can be problematic. Not really understanding non-tech roles is less common outside crypto IMO, so I guess it's our more unique bias here. Probably because of the infra-centric history, where a majority of people involved in crypto had tech backgrounds. I hope the situation will get better, but given other, more mature industries, I don't think it will do a full 180. |