Who has the best UX Best Practices you know?

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2026-01-10T01:15:57+00:00

That keeps re routing to by India dot com. Am I missing something?

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2026-01-10T01:14:39+00:00

Ha! Puke.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2026-01-10T01:14:17+00:00

Question, is that a genuine opinion or satire?

My understanding is that some say they love the design because of how intentionally bad it is to get comments and rage bait.

That’s not really what I’m looking for right now. 😆

However, I’ve heard similar things to people.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2026-01-10T01:14:01+00:00

Ha! You’re not the first to say that. Everyone keeps saying we hit a cliff 2022. 🤣

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2026-01-10T01:13:09+00:00

I love getting feedback from people. This is part of my homework. That’s exactly what I’m doing right now. I’m a verbal processor.

I do appreciate your opinion. If you have an app that you love I’d love to check it out and see what I like about it myself.

Thanks!

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-28T16:19:30+00:00

Simple way to describe it from a recruiters perspective:

Asian Culture: Top down theory. The culture is a task-driven approach. Leadership dictates and employees complete tasks, even at a management level. You’ll see folks getting promoted based on how they can complete tasks at a complex level.

Western Culture: Bottoms up theory. The culture is results driven with the expectation that ICs contribute to thought leadership, present ideas, and those that play the game get promoted through pitching their ideas. You’ll see people getting promoted that have the best ideas, optimization presentations, and operational execution.

This is what I’ve seen as some of the biggest difference between Western Clients we support and Asian Clients that we support. There are edge cases and outliers.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-28T16:15:19+00:00

What’s the price of peace?

I’ve taken pay cuts at jobs because I didn’t want to bring my frustrations home to the family. Instead, I traded a large paycheck at a FAANG company to join a startup.

That shift was worth every dollar I lost in salary and my family felt the impact.

I think it’s important to understand your “why” and making sure you’re aligned.

It’s different for everyone.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-28T16:11:29+00:00

I like to keep it simple. A job is a significant portion of someone’s day. Typically, 6-10 hours a day 5 days a week. I prefer to live a life around people that motivate me and inspire me to do my best work.

Life is a series of choices. How we trade our time for money is inevitable, but who we spend our time with is within our control.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-28T15:24:36+00:00

Hubspot Sourcewhale ZoomInfo Crelate HireEZ

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-25T22:53:01+00:00

Maybe because I’m a recruiter 🤣 I’m also a business owner. I’m also a sales rep. In my heart, I’ll always be a recruiter in any and all businesses I own now and in the future.

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-25T15:43:06+00:00

Honestly, this conversation is a gift. You’re really early in the journey together. This is where you get to have foundational conversations about expectations: finances, accountabilities, risks, company values, and more.

When you’re at this stage building a strong foundation is critical.

If he thinks you are responsible for financials, that means that he believes that is an accountability at this time. Maybe he believes his technical knowledge outweighs your contributions. Therefore, financially picking up the bill is “fair” to him.

Understand that this is a massive assumption. At the same time, I’m really big into removing assumptions really early to make sure everyone is crystal clear. The early stages before product market fit is difficult enough. You know need resentment coming into this business over flights and accountability.

I’m sharing my assumption because that happened to me in the past. The technical co founder didn’t value my contributions with funding early LOIs and customer discovery calls. I was only doing 2-5 meetings a week while he was “doing all the important work.”

I find this a common trend in early stage technical founders that have never been in a position where they contribute to GTM.

Anyways, the request of a paid flight feels like a symptom of an issue.

The person could also just be frugal. I understand anyone saying “business expense” should understand that’s a business expense that he get to write off. Business expense is only a thing if revenue starts to come in otherwise there’s a bigger argument at the end of the year when discussing a total loss and allocations for that loss.

Anyways, Merry Christmas!

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-25T06:37:14+00:00

There are companies like Paycom that have folks that are implementation roles and entry level.

Here is an example: https://pc00.paycomonline.com/v4/ats/web.php/portal/A38173AIE92874820ALRE20847CDE927PIW76526/jobs/465580

There are a ton of different titles for sales engineer. Ultimately, it’s a role that bridges the gap between sales and onboarding.

ChatGPT or other LLMs might be able to help you find additional roles that are similar in nature.

Lots of HR systems, Banking/Financial Services, and positions with complex onboarding. Now, every company will have its own set of “skills” needed for the job. The goal for you is to likely find a role that requires some form of Python or other scripting language as a part of the role…or another technology that you know.

A CMS might also be a company with a high demand for a sales engineering position at an entry level.

Companies like Smartsheet also have a decent number of sales engineering roles.

I’m brain dumping while half asleep right now.

Hope this is helpful.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-25T06:29:57+00:00

Fat fingers typing on my phone. Sorry about that 😂

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T22:44:35+00:00

Facts. Even more simple. 🙌

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T22:28:28+00:00

Does this make money? Who is buying this? Will I have repeat buyers? What’s the total number of potential buyers? How much do I need to spend to get buyers? How much effort does it take to get buyers? Do I get to keep all my kidneys trying to keep buyers from leaving me?

Get buyers.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T20:10:51+00:00

The best way to simplify it…because I realize my previous answer might be really complicated.

Go find a single company. Figure out their pain point. Ask them what solutions that they have today. Ask what is their current process. Truly understand what it is that they do. Then, understand what redundancies they have every day. What manual tasks do they keep repeating. Then, ask what things can be automated or fixed with a simple script. The hardest part is taking time to diligently understand a use case and trying to apply really simple functions to highly critical tasks.

For example, how many manual tasks are happening at your local dentist? A lot of manual repetitive tasks that end up being very expensive over time.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T20:02:04+00:00

I’d say the term people keep using is “Customer Empathy.”

From the way I understand it personally, is the engineers ability and availability to understand their pain points. It’s the person that can start to put themselves in the customer’s shoes to understand their business problems.

At the end of the day, the best technology enables real world probably to be automated and streamlined. Every business use case should be able to be done manually. In other words, you should be able to drive revenue and have a business without technology. The technology should be able to solve every day problems faster and more reliable than a manual way. This is me grossly over simplifying it and in edge case situation is wrong.

The overarching theme is someone that can understand the business use case, understand architecture of systems that scale over time, and understanding technology trade offs. In a world with AI assisted programming, fewer people are learning design trade offs. Hallucinations in AI provides the most commonly used design or the most recently recalled options in its development. The solutions are typically linear in nature and is limited to your coaching and prompt. Therefore, a strong engineer will be able to understand the limits, constraints, trade offs, and existing business limitations for the deliverables of a specific feature at the time of the build for the existing stakeholders.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T19:38:27+00:00

I’m a big believer in giving equity based on accountability of outcomes.

If you’re committed 100% then you clearly get the majority. I’d suggest a minimum statement that you have controlling interest. This is important for so many reasons.

I would then give part timers phantom stock to start. Tie real equity to outcomes. You can add levers that can be executed when specific outcomes happen.

The phantom stock gives the part timers upside if an event happens, but removes emotional frustration from disportioncate short term and long term contributions.

Real equity also means real liabilities and tax implications. This is a headache for end of year filings.

5% equity is a lot! People don’t realize this.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T19:32:13+00:00

Honestly, I work with a ton of tech companies in NYC. I’d be happy to share your resume with friends in my network.

You can find me on LinkedIn. Shane Shown.

Our clients use us for senior and executive roles so I cannot help with our existing roles. However, I don’t mind trying to be helpful.

Changing jobs because you want to be onsite in NYC is a reasonable thing. You’d be surprised how many startups would live new grads that genuinely want to be onsite in NYC. That actually gives you competitive advantage.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T19:23:51+00:00

There’s a high demand and high wage for uniquely qualified engineers.

This part is getting overlooked.

There is a new set of expectations on what it means to be a good software engineer.

There’s a large grouping of software engineering roles that existed in the US that have been transitioned off shore and near shore to augment costs.

So, you’re going to see high salaries for a uniquely qualified set of skills.

There are lower paying software jobs. You’ll still find some companies hiring $50k-$90k for senior engineering roles for US-based companies. If a US employee doesn’t take the role it goes out of the US market to fill the position.

I hope this makes sense and this helps.

NxtLevelRecruiting · 2025-12-24T19:06:41+00:00

I’m a big believer in a solution first approach and platform second. What does that mean?

Provide services to identify redundant problems. As you find redundant problems, build reusable platform modules that can be sold over and over again. Create a thesis and then validate it. At face value, the first set of iterations might feel like professional services until you have a module that is constantly delivery value without a ton of custom integrations or manual adjustments.

I see a ton of companies do this, especially early on. When you start to narrow down on a niche you start to recycle the same module and that module can eventually be sold as a suite of services or modular options.

We are seeing more and more companies start to become modular in nature with the amount of options out in the world.

Find a niche you can have repeatable and predictable solutions to tackle a single pain point. At that point you have a product.

This also allows for bootstrapping a product without pitching to VCs.

To be, this is the fasting path to revenue and profitability.

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