We all know there’s a lot of noise in the hiring process—job seekers have to wade through hundreds or thousands of job postings to find the ones they want to apply to, only to have their resumes lost in a black hole. Similarly, recruiters must wade through hundreds or thousands of applicants to find the […]
As per our daily routine, we in Bright engineering were recently presented with a problem, and went in search of an elegant solution. The situation: we wanted to display our Bright Score calculation results to our users as quickly as possible after the calculation was completed. Since our search algorithm and our scoring algorithm are […]
In order to build a good predictive model, a data scientist has a lot of things to consider. But something that often goes overlooked or undermentioned—likely because it’s not that glamorous—is cleaning the data. You want to build the best mathematical model that works for your data, but a step of tantamount importance is getting […]
Update 2/19/2013: This article was picked up by VentureBeat The Times recently published an article describing how employers increasingly rely on internal referrals in hiring. In the age of “spray and pray” job seekers, where the cost of submitting an application is a few recycled electrons, this may seem like a rational solution in the […]
The first week I joined Bright, I came across a piece by Francisco Dao about the state of product innovation in Silicon Valley, lamenting that most web and mobile startups these days lack the experience and research talent to work on breakthrough technology. Feeling a pang of pride, I forwarded the article to my new […]
