iPG
Learning and science
interview practice
SHOW HN2012
290points
77comments
#40of 1,677 in 2012
Top 3%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 8 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 3 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever and helpful for interview prep
From 3 comments
This is pretty clever. Well done guys.
aorshan on HNLove it! It helped me a lot before my interview ;)
makeee on HNHoly macro! This is like a never-ending interrogation! But one hell of a good one, nonetheless. Great piece of stuff James and iPG! Should help out a ton of interviewees.
rooshdi on HN
Objections
Fast 15-second timer penalises thoughtful answers
From 2 comments
The person who is perhaps the brightest [1] person I've ever met would - if this is a fair simulation - be rejected by YC. When answering a question he often won't even have…
michael_nielsen on HNAre questions such as "How will you make money?" answerable in 15 seconds? I tried it with my personal concept, and even with trying to remain concise and to the point, I can't…
elliottcarlson on HN
Logo and name look too close to Backblaze
From 2 comments
Are you guys affiliated with http://www.backblaze.com? If not, you should change your logo and website design fast. Possibly your name too.
OpenAmazing on HNIANAL, but I have had to deal with trademark issues and as I understand trademark law you would be considered to be in exactly the same market. The difference between, say, pet…
benohear on HN
Requests
Make it a generic tool for custom questions
From 1 comment
Any way to make this a generic tool? Would love to be able to use this with my own questions for other purposes.
tonyjwang on HN
Record responses for playback
From 1 comment
Record the person's response! Would be great if you could replay each of your responses at the end to see if you sounded horrible (or good).
DTrejo on HN
Questions
Does the practice actually improve performance?
From 2 comments
Forgetting the questions and answers, do you think the practice would make you perform better? ie is there any value with this approach?
sparknlaunch12 on HNWhy do your team use this approach? Does it improve your performance? If yes, why and how? What do you do better in the actual pitch?
sparknlaunch12 on HN
Alternatives named
Hailo and Megahal chatbots
From 2 comments
If someone's looking for a fun, kind of silly weekend hack, I've always thought it would be lots of fun to feed PG's essays and comments into Megahal or something like that that…
davidw on HNIncidentally, Hailo is in pretty much every way a much better Megahal (esp. when your text corpus is large): http://search.cpan.org/~hinrik/Hailo-0.70/bin/hailo
KaeseEs on HN
Francis Dierick's startup questions iPhone app
From 1 comment
Take a look at this great list of questions too by Francis Dierick who created an iPhone app too. http://fr.anc.is/2012/01/21/top-100-startup-questions/
ColinHayhurst on HN