<story><title>Mentra aims to match neurodivergent jobseekers with jobs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/sam-altman-backed-startup-aims-to-match-neurodivergent-jobseekers-with-ideal-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>I was curious about the associated job specs. Whether they read like &amp;quot;Wanted: Software dev with the hyperfocus of ADHD and none of the nasty downsides&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;However on page 3 or so of the very visually noisy sign up flow I&amp;#x27;ve lost interest, doesn&amp;#x27;t look like there&amp;#x27;s an option to see any listings without first typing in ridiculous amounts of information.&lt;p&gt;Made it to the end by skipping fields and asking google what a representative american phone number is. The &amp;#x27;search&amp;#x27; function returns no hits, even when you type in keywords from the example job postings. Likewise the buttons next to search marked things like &amp;quot;remote&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;internship&amp;quot; return no results. The page has &amp;quot;show more&amp;quot; on it, but says you&amp;#x27;ve reached the end after a total of 15 listings. The four I looked at were indistinguishable from job listings seen elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;So the initial impression is they&amp;#x27;ve put a huge amount of effort into trying to get information out of job searchers and not so much into trying to get employers to post roles on it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mentra aims to match neurodivergent jobseekers with jobs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/sam-altman-backed-startup-aims-to-match-neurodivergent-jobseekers-with-ideal-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>&amp;gt; Some research shows that neurodivergent people can make teams up to 30% more productive when placed in the right environments.&lt;p&gt;This rings true for any kind of &amp;quot;difficult&amp;quot; team member. All people have intrinsic advantages, and many who are considered &amp;quot;difficult&amp;quot; to work with, either are in the wrong role, are expected to be doing something that&amp;#x27;s uncomfortable to them, are not strong with communication, deadlines, estimating, etc.&lt;p&gt;Your job as a team leader&amp;#x2F;manager is to figure out how to best utilize their talents, without letting the shortcomings get in the way of the project &amp;#x2F; rest of the team. Someone&amp;#x27;s really bad with deadlines? Don&amp;#x27;t give them deadlines! Assign them to more &amp;quot;async&amp;quot; work like writing tests, documentation, maintenance, etc.&lt;p&gt;For me, with a strong technical background but no experience managing a team, having found myself in that role for the first time, it helped to think of it as an optimization problem. Databases are great at handling many rows of columnar data. GPUs are great at heavily parallel work like matrices.&lt;p&gt;Every human is good at something. [NSFW] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oglaf.com&amp;#x2F;gifted&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oglaf.com&amp;#x2F;gifted&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>