What’s happened with the Big Linden Recruit?
January 17, 2007
We’re aware of a couple of individuals who applied for positions with Linden Labs after Philip Linden’s general call for applications in November 2006. On the 13th December Linden asked for patience. A month on, has anyone heard back at all? The two people I’m aware of certainly haven’t. Recruitment is a time-intensive task, but if there are no notifications in the next few weeks, it can’t help future recruitment efforts…
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I'll fill you in on some details of the reality... YES we've been actively recruiting...
Have you met our new Lindens? Like Neo (Liaison), Yoz (Tools & Web Program Manager), Siobhan (Data Warehousing), and shame on me for not knowing offhand who else has joined us.
I've personally been helping interview Technical Writer&Editors, so yeah, definitely some responses there.
WHAT ELSE?
Oh, Jeska, Doug, and Ian travelled all the way up to Canada to recruit! You can even find pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeskalinden/358786...
They received a wealth of resumes and again, we'll be contacting back on an as-appropriate basis.
beez Linden also shared her firsthand experiences with me re: Web and Ops positions, and the following certainly needs to be communicated —
If someone hasn't heard back, it may be because:
(1) They don't qualify for the job, in one or more ways. This could be because they don't meet the required spectrum of technical or knowledge skills we're looking for, and/or they're not a good, well-rounded, cultural Linden fit. The Tao of Linden explains our company principles: http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/07/25/the-tao-o...
(2) Nora Linden openly blogged last month that we're unable to reply to all: http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/12/13/a-word-fr...
It may not be easy to hear "no", or not hear back at all, but since fruitful employment is often a longterm committment and an adventure, we like to ensure it'll be a good pairing between both a new potential Linden and the existing Linden family which makes up our company, Linden Lab.
I hope this clarifies some details. T'care! :D
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Thanks for the considered reply, which I've passed on to the two individuals. I suppose where their coming from is that in most recruitment campaigns, unsuccessful applicants will at least get a form letter saying 'thanks but no thanks'. In the case of this sort of positon a form email wouldn't be too difficult?
Again - thanks for laying out all the info - appreciated ;)
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failed to fit in was that he wasn't in their location.
Isn't that just a tad odd?
We've all got broadband, employees could use skype and
ftp programs in and out... does it matter all that much where
you are?
Wolfie!
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