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New comment by asyncscrum in "All the job candidates are fake"

asyncscrum — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:53:32 +0000

Consider it forwarded!

All the job candidates are fake

asyncscrum — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://sofuckingagile.com/blog/All-the-candidates-are-fake

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811504

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by asyncscrum in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

asyncscrum — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:27:35 +0000

https://sofuckingagile.com

Mostly about enterprise saas product leadership and the intersection with sales.

New comment by asyncscrum in "The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally (2021)"

asyncscrum — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 14:17:56 +0000

> Baron fell into a coma, from which he never awoke. He passed in 2010.

I hadn't known that Baron was in a coma for 24 years after this.

The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally (2021)

asyncscrum — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 13:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/remembering-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-1986-paris-dakar-rally/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34380220

Points: 92

# Comments: 47

New comment by asyncscrum in "“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)"

asyncscrum — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 04:57:49 +0000

The most important takeaway here is that the customer is willing to negotiate timing and scope. The 12wk plan was actually 1yr and the author is still around to write this.

If your colleagues claim the sky is falling because a software development timeline was wrong, they're not cut out for software development.

New comment by asyncscrum in "Software horror show: SAP Concur"

asyncscrum — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:14:16 +0000

My favorite fight search tool was hipmunk. Their 'agony' sort was my favorite feature in any software ever. SAP bought them, and I was so hopeful that Concur would bake this into their god awful app that I had to use for work. No luck. RIP Hipmunk.

The Invisible College of Experimental Flatology

asyncscrum — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://flatology.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752191

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by asyncscrum in "Ask HN: How do you prioritize Job offers by money and interest?"

asyncscrum — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:28:22 +0000

Usually I determine the money range required to live the lifestyle I want. Once competing offers hit that threshold, then I take money off the table as a evaluation criteria.

Usually it comes down to a single question for me. How likely is it that this job ruins a family vacation? I've had that too many times, and I'm not doing that anymore. If I catch at least a hint of that likelihood, I'm out. Quality of life outside of work is the most important for me right now.

UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2022

asyncscrum — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:18:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/insights/2022/global-real-estate-bubble-index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33197198

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by asyncscrum in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 22:42:26 +0000

Worked at a company that had a business line offering a professional service to saas firms. We got into the saas game ourselves and leaned on our existing customers to analyze their calls. I was the 'machine' in our machine learning lol.

New comment by asyncscrum in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:09:22 +0000

One on my major takeaways from the calls was how many people were visibly sick yet still working and getting on calls. WFH has really destroyed the concept of stay home and get some rest.

New comment by asyncscrum in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:38:08 +0000

It basically refers to data in salesforce being complete, accurate and input in a consistent way. It's a term used around software apps that drive decision making and are useless without the criteria I mentioned.

New comment by asyncscrum in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:18:34 +0000

At companies that are very customer centric, often times the calls are shared with customer success and implementation teams ensuring your goals as expressed during the buying phase are aligned with the implementation. This allows shorter implementation timeframes and higher likelihood of you achieving your goals and having a positive impact on your company. However, I'm sure that the majority of time the recordings sit in cloud cold storage until they expire and are deleted, never to be heard again.

New comment by asyncscrum in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:00:34 +0000

True, will update the article. I still found it somewhat surprising.

New comment by asyncscrum in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:40:51 +0000

This is a good question. Regarding letting customers talk, the teams that were most successful had great salesforce hygiene, and teams with great salesforce hygiene were required to fill in certain data points. This means that there are commonly asking questions and listening more than talking. Likely they were evaluated as sales representatives based on the quality of the data that they provided in salesforce as well as quota attainment. Overall I think the act of listening and asking questions versus delivering a script means you're qualifying your leads more appropriately and they're just better candidates for purchase.

I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls

asyncscrum — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/i-listened-to-1000-b2b-saas-sales-calls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132951

Points: 487

# Comments: 168

New comment by asyncscrum in "Using machine learning to predict the leads that close"

asyncscrum — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 03:30:50 +0000

Thus spawning a whole new class of tools that add a more convenient interface on-top of salesforce.

New comment by asyncscrum in "Lessons from a Professional Password Cracker"

asyncscrum — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 12:34:51 +0000

The rockyou.com insight was new to me. I hadn't heard of this breach somehow. I was wondering how they had 32m users and read some more on Wikipedia and they had Facebook apps and some MySpace plugins.

From Wikipedia

> In December 2009, RockYou experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. This resulted from storing user data in an unencrypted database (including user passwords in plain text instead of using a cryptographic hash) and not patching a ten-year-old SQL vulnerability. RockYou failed to provide a notification of the breach to users and miscommunicated the extent of the breach

New comment by asyncscrum in "Digger – Back and Digitally Remastered (1998)"

asyncscrum — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:15:34 +0000

Worked for the company that made this game many many years after they got out of gaming. For years we got calls about it. Sometimes licenced it to other developers for nothing. We had some cool Japanese packaging and artwork from that era. The guy that did the sound turned into a great .net dev and we built several cool products together that ran for 15 years without maintenance.