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I went to MIT for undergrad, then took a few years off to work as a professional cook in New York and San Francisco. Working in kitchens changed how I thought about hiring, which ended up shaping a lot of what I did after that. You don’t go through a standard interview, and people don’t really look at your resume. They have you come in and work for a day, and at the end of the night, if you did a good job, they feed you and make you an offer. That was much more fair than the hiring practices I was used to. Then I went back to doing what I know, which is software engineering. I started as an individual contributor and became a tech lead. I got more involved in the hiring process because I found that recruitment can become a burden on a team if no one takes ownership of it. I ended up liking that work more than writing code, so I decided I’d switch over to recruiting. I ran recruitment at TrialPay and Udacity, then started my own recruiting firm and worked for startups in the Bay Area. A

Pow'Her in Tech Back A recruiter’s perspective Aline Lerner is the founder and CEO of interviewing.io, a free platform for software engineers to practice interviewing anonymously and find jobs independently of who they are or how they look on paper. What is your background? I went to MIT for undergrad, then took a few years off to work as a professional cook in New York and San Francisco. Working in kitchens changed how I thought about hiring, which ended up shaping a lot of what I did after that. You don’t go through a standard interview, and people don’t really look at your resume. They have

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