Aditya Sharma

Co-Founder & CTO @Hiration | YC W20

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6/6 If you already applied through both, not fatal.

Just stop there. Reapplying through every surface usually makes routing messier. More records rarely means more interest.

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1/6 Easy Apply + the company site usually are not two separate shots.

At a lot of companies, both paths collapse into the same ATS. Doing both often creates duplicate admin, not extra interest.

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5/6 Better second move:
- make the real-system version cleaner
- use a referral or recruiter note if you have one
- tailor for a sister role only if it is genuinely different

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@okikiayo11 Useful prompt. Most ATS misses still come from basics first: job-title mismatch, missing must-have keywords, and bullets that never show scope or results. I’d fix those before polishing phrasing with AI.

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@masterSIGIL2 Honestly this is one of the few times a blown interview is good news. If a place looks that chaotic before day one, it usually gets worse once you're inside. The real win here is you got an interview again after six years, and that part carries into the next better shot.

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@emilyhasnoname I’d compare them as if the animal hospital role stays exactly what it is now. A maybe path to benefits and full-time usually beats a fun setting unless you can confirm they actually convert people and on what timeline.

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@JWordsOfWisdom Repost by itself usually is not the answer people think it is. Sometimes the ATS auto-renews or they want more pipeline while feedback is still drifting, so I’d judge it by whether humans are still moving and whether the timeline slipped, not by the repost alone.

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@princessmulan00 If they flinched that hard, their band was probably lower than the role sounded. Next time give a range tied to your experience and scope, or ask for their band first if they bring money up early.

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@himephoibc For a restaurant interview, keep 2 quick stories ready: one time you stayed calm with a customer and one time you moved fast without getting sloppy. Most managers are screening for reliability, attitude, and whether you'd be easy to work a busy shift with.

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@Devsthetix For a first virtual interview, they usually care most about how you think through an edit, take feedback, and hit deadlines. Keep 2 short stories ready about a project you cut, the choices you made, and how you handled revisions. Test audio and screen share before you join.

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5/5 Then watch what happens next. If they tighten timeline, talk comp, or lock a next step, that is movement. If they ask and nothing speeds up, it was just timeline math. Keep interviewing until written offer.

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1/5 If a recruiter asks whether you're interviewing elsewhere near the end, it usually is not a trick question. They are usually trying to figure out how fast they need to move.

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Clear beats vague. Honest beats dramatic.

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3/5 Best answer is truthful and bounded. Say whether you have other active processes, whether anything is actually late stage, and whether you have a real deadline. No theater. No fake pressure.

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3) they are comparing finalists and timing matters

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@po__taters Write your first 2 lines for tell me about yourself tonight and keep one example ready for why you fit the role. Tomorrow, answer slower than feels natural for the first minute and your brain usually catches up fast.

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5/5 The goal is not to talk them into trusting you. The goal is to remove ambiguity before the checker has to guess. Quiet correction beats panicked explanation.

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1/5 If you omitted a short job or a date mistake before a background check, do not wait for HR to maybe miss it. Fix it before they have to surface it.

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4/5 Keep the note tight: company, title, corrected dates, and one line if the omission was a short stop, overlap, or old contract you left off. No long apology. No backstory spiral.