Exponent has been extremely helpful during my interview prep and I want to thank the team for consistently producing high quality content and generously sharing them online to help people land their dream jobs!
Hi Product Hunt!
My name is Stephen and I’m one of the co-founders of Exponent, an interview prep platform to help more folks get jobs in tech.
One of the hardest parts of getting a job is standing out from the candidate pool. Without a friend already working at your dream company or a business-school connection you can DM on LinkedIn, it can feel like you’re sending your resume into a void.
We’re rethinking the referral process in an attempt to democratize access to tech jobs and growth opportunities.
Exponent’s new job referral platform gives candidates access to referrers they may not otherwise connect with. Similarly, referrers can share top-tier candidates to get referral bonuses at their place of work.
💻 Accelerate your job search—Referrals are the fastest way to get interviews in tech and are proven to improve your chances of landing the offer.
📈 Connect with our 300+ person referral network—Get your resume seen by an exclusive network of hundreds of Exponent members currently employed at top tech companies.
⏲️ Get seen by employees in minutes—We made our referral process as smooth as possible. All you need is your resume and the job position you're interested in.
Looking for a job referral? Work at a company that’s hiring? I hope you enjoy our new referral network platform.
I’m looking forward to answering questions and hearing feedback from the PH community!
This is so necessary right now with the current hiring climate in tech. Great work team!
Quick question, can I share this with some data scientist friends as well or is it PMs and SWEs currently?
Isn’t this contributing to a worse recruiting experience?
A referral usually results from networking or having worked with someone. If we use tools like this to get referrals from anonymous people, who want to get a referral bonus, aren’t we making referrals useless?
@moon_hunter1 We do! We have a wide spread of the popular tech companies. When we have a significant set of people in a new company that we don't have existing referrers for, we go and find one!
Seeing lots of products like this enter the recruiting space. I'm not quite sure why they haven't panned out, maybe y'all can break the ice!
I've heard of https://refermarket.com whom I know has helped a few colleagues
https://refspark.com/ shut down after ~8k users and 2 years of service
https://repher.me/ is just no longer being maintained. I know this because the same colleagues requested referrals here and they were never responded to.
@joshob23 Really great points. We see our platform helping folks get referrals a bit differently in a few ways:
* We're starting from a really strong base of 500k+ users in our community which allows kickstarting this much more easily
* We're not having any fees in our platform to start - focusing on quality and matching right now.
* We're adding features soon to allow for better ranking of candidates (how much content they've consumed, how many peer mock interviews they've done) to help referrers spend their time more thoughtfully.
We're eager to combine the best of Exponent's interview prep experience with our referral product to help radically improve the recruitment experience in tech.
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