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Salesforce Launches Sales Cloud To Help Businesses Track The Lifecycle Of Revenue
By: Sweta Dey
Tags: Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Revenue Cloud, Salesforce, Sales

Salesforce Launches Sales Cloud To Help Businesses Track The Lifecycle Of Revenue Sweta Dey Jan 22·2 min read

Salesforce introduced Revenue Cloud, another cloud product intended to give organizations a comprehensive perspective on their income cycle and launch new income streams.

“We are assisting organizations with quickening development, regardless of whether that implies filling the holes of lost revenue or multiplying down on the sector of your business that is progressing admirably,” Salesforce said in a blog. “Regardless of the multifaceted nature of your deals, plan of action, or revenue measures, Revenue Cloud can be the single source of truth for client value-based information.”

Revenue Cloud is essential for the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem and joins the abilities from the organization’s current CPQ and Billing, Partner Relationship Management (PRM), and B2B Commerce items into a solitary contribution. Consumer Asset Lifecycle Management, Multi-Cloud Billing, and the CPQ-B2B Commerce connector are all recent deals.

Multi-Cloud Billing relies on Vlocity tech, which Salesforce purchased in June 2020 and this has been renamed Salesforce Industries since then. Multi-Cloud Billing pulls from the business explicit cloud arrangements offered by Salesforce Industries to help organizations assemble new income streams by overseeing charging and installments inside a solitary framework. Income Cloud likewise contains Quick Starts intended to help organizations launch new revenue streams.

Customer Asset Lifecycle Management gives a visual dashboard that can help organizations track KPIs, similar to customer lifetime value, net income maintenance, and month to month repeating revenue continuously in real-time. Organizations can see a difference in client data, for example, purchases, contract corrections, and open balances.

Utilizing the CPQ-B2B Commerce connector, organizations can modify their advanced retail facade and trucks. Clients can add items or administrations to their shopping basket and afterward contact salespeople on the off chance that they have questions. What’s more, the framework will likewise give salesmen definite customer data, for example, existing item history and online collaborations.

Revenue Cloud is the most recent expansion to Salesforce’s specific cloud contributions. Recently the product as-a-administration organization reported Work.com to support businesses and governments respond to COVID-19, Salesforce Anywhere to strengthen collaborative activities and alerts for meetings, and Einstein Call Coaching to upgrade the labor force.

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GUMU™ Features: Add-on for Promoting Salesforce Orders as a Purchase Order to Sage 300 using Lightning Version
Tags: Salesforce Lightning, Sage 300 Integration, Sage Erp Integration, Salesforce, Salesforce Integration

GUMU™ Features: Add-on for Promoting Salesforce Orders as a Purchase Order to Sage 300 using Lightning Version Greytrix Feb 18, 2020·3 min read

Our GUMU™ Sage ERP Integration for Salesforce (Sage 100, Sage X3 and Sage 300) is a real-time bi-directional link.Using GUMU™ user can sync data between Salesforce to Sage ERP and vice versa.

In this blog we will be see the how to promote an Purchase Order to Sage 300 system in the Lightning version of Salesforce.

Please Note: It is mandatory to synchronize some required entities such as Account Set, Vendor Terms Code, Tax Group and Vendors before promoting a Purchase Order to Sage 300.

Please follow the examples in the below steps on how to Promote a sample Purchase Order from Salesforce to Sage 300 ERP system.

Login to Salesforce.

Go to App menu and select “GUMU Integration” app.

app. Click on “Purchase Order” tab where you can either view integrated Purchase Order or could create a new Purchase Order and promote it from Salesforce to Sage 300 ERP.

Purchase Order List

Select 300 Integration

Click on “New” button, this would open a new Purchase Order page where you can add details and promote Purchase Order to Sage 300.

button, this would open a new Purchase Order page where you can add details and promote Purchase Order to Sage 300. In first tab “Order Information” you can select a Vendor and update their Address required for the specific PO.

Order Information Tab

ERP Information Tab

Purchase Order Line Item

Note: while adding Products to the Purchase Order in Salesforce we are populating cost for selected product on a real-time basis.

Sage Order Promotion Confirmation

Sage 300 PO Promoted Successfully

We hope that using the steps mentioned in the blog above, you are able to successfully promote a Purchase Order to Sage 300 ERP.

If you still have queries or any related problem, don’t hesitate to contact us on salesforce@greytrix.com.
Integrate Salesforce solutions to strategize for business operations & amplify your sales.
By: Jack Oram
Tags: CRM, Salesforce Crm, Salesforce

We are end-to-end Salesforce experts and offer a broad range of Salesforce development services across multiple industry domains. We are a certified development team with expertise in designing, configuration, and integration along with Salesforce implementation. We have experience in building scalable cloud applications for organizations using the Salesforce platform.

We help our clients with custom solutions for unique business needs, leveraging our strong expertise in customization and extending Salesforce using Apex and Visual force. We specialize in Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Services Cloud.

Salesforce is independent of customer location and gives reliable customer service. It is the original software to increase sales. It is a reliable company holding and controlling various services like financing, healthcare, life sciences, retail, manufacturing, and customer goods.

Deploying Salesforce with best practices to deliver the solutions on-time & within the estimated cost. We ensure your company’s success by evaluating existing business processes & practices, creating roadmaps and suggesting the best solutions customized to fit your requirements.

The Platform connects the entire customer journey across Sales, Service, Marketing, Commerce, and every touch point. The SalesForce CRM Development deliver continuous innovation using powerful tools built right into one customer success platform, including modern app development practices, analytics, AI, and secure data integration.

We customize & personalize your existing Salesforce experience and maximize your ROI. We build tailor-made Salesforce modules and functionality to optimize & suite your unique business requirement. Be it custom workflows, reports or dashboards or altogether new feature development.

We provide end-to-end services which include set up of cloud based Salesforce software, application development customized to the needs and integration of Salesforce with mobile apps and other web applications. We have extensive knowledge and experience in Salesforce implementation, customization, and integration with other applications, data migration and maintenance.
Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack
Tags: CRM, Nonprofit, Salesforce

Salesforce Nonprofit success pack is a part of Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud. It is an open source add-on application to salesforce.com with pre-built constituent and donor management features. NPSP is a number of managed packages, installed on top of Salesforce Enterprise Edition. It enables all the non profit organizations to manage some of their regular business forms. It is as of now perfectly in synchronous with Salesforce Classic, and some other Known issues with lightning version too. It is referred to as Nonprofit Starter Pack, which is a combination of managed packages developed and preserved by salesforce and made accessible for free through the Salesforce AppExchange.

Features of NPSP

To get the best of the NPSP, here are some top features to know

Synchronization of processes you do:- Nonprofit success pack is a business standard of salesforce customization, which meets every industry standards known for nonprofits. It is the base of a flexible platform that empowers nonprofits of any size to run your organization better and engage the process more deeply with customers which advance their missions.

Brings adaptability in Data Architecture:- Speed-Up your time to get opportunity and impact with NPSP to implement salesforce organization wide and extend to reach thousands of AppExchange or other Salesforce tools like Marketing Cloud and Pardot.

Donor Management & Constituent for Building Blocks:- NPSP provides accessibility built-in tools to manage events, donations, employees and other supporters for a single place. Its deep donor management allows efficient engagement of fundraising process. Manages the individual constituents and households, Tracks the information of Donor management like their demographic and contact information, and view their relationships and organization affiliations.

Globally powered-community movement:- NPSP supports joining a community of global trailblazers with tens of thousands of organizations and a lot of users in over 80 countries which shares best practices and help them to improve the code, documentation and more. Take advantage of the tremendous biology community of master execution accomplices that are energetic about helping you to turn into a connected Nonprofit.

Einstein for Nonprofits:- Einstein integration helps you to track donations which are received from different sources. It can determine whether an action should be taken to close a donor. It uses scoring to help and determine when to send messages as well as other activities like enrolling the donation in an engagement plan.

There are some other features like Engagement, Volunteer, Campaign Management and collaborative Quip reports.

The article was originally published at MicroPyramid blog
What is a Sales Funnel, Examples and How to Create One
By: Donjay Prince
Tags: Marketing, Short Story, Sales, Digital Marketing, Salesforce

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Last Updated on March 24, 2020

Each of the sales funnel stages has an impact on consumer behavior. You need to know them intimately.

By knowing each step, you can use tactics to improve the number of people that go from one step to the next.

This can have a crazy impact on your business.

Let’s say you double the number of people at 2 steps of your funnel. You double leads and you double the percentage of closed customers. That gives you 4X the number of new customers every month.

Defining and managing your sales funnel is one of the most powerful concepts in business.

Let’s dive in.

What is a Sales Funnel?

The sales funnel is each step that someone has to take in order to become your customer.

Let’s look at a brick-and-mortar sales funnel.

The people at the top of the sales funnel walk by your store. A certain percentage of them decide to walk in, that’s the next next of the funnel.

A customer sees a rack of T-shirts on clearance. He or she thumbs through the rack, now they’re at the next step of the funnel. Then the customer selects four t-shirts and walks to the check-out. They’re at the last step. If all goes well, they finish the purchase and reach the bottom of the funnel.

This same process plays out for every business in one way or the other. Your sales funnel could exist as:

Retail store

Sales team

Website

Email

Personal consultation

Any marketing channel can be part of your sales funnel. And your funnel might be spread across several channels.

Why is a sales funnel important?

Your sales funnel illustrates the path prospects take.

Understanding your funnel can helps you find the holes in the funnel — the places where prospects drop out and never convert.

If you don’t understand your sales funnel, you can’t optimize it. We’ll go into the specifics of how the funnel works below, but for now, understand that you can influence how visitors move through the funnel and whether they eventually convert.
How to Raise the Efficiency of Customer Service with CRM
Tags: Salesforce Services, Salesforce, Salesforce Development

Today, neither the cost nor the item is the fundamental motivation behind why clients remain faithful to the brand. It is client support that has become the key differentiator between organizations. As per the ongoing details, 96% of clients consider magnificent client care the main factor in their choice to construct long haul relations with an organization. Consequently, I think putting resources into excellent client support is an absolute necessity for any organization that needs to win the fight for faithful customers. Click For Salesforce Implementation Partners

A CRM answer for client support is up for the undertaking as it empowers multichannel correspondence with your clients, offers a 360-degree client see for customized administration conveyance, mechanizes routine assignments of your client assistance operators, and then some. There are a great deal of CRM stages available that you can look over relying upon your organization’s needs. We, at ScienceSoft, have made our rundown of top 3 CRM instruments for client support. Peruse on to get familiar with their usefulness.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Accessible in two forms — Professional and Enterprise — Dynamics 365 Customer Service can address the issues of organizations all things considered. It’s a conspicuous decision for organizations utilizing other Microsoft items and searching for consistent reconciliation with Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Power BI, Exchange, OneNote, and different applications.

Center highlights:

Case the board

This element helps split your case the board cycle into 4 fundamental advances: creation, task, acceleration, and goal. The case record contains all the data that can be important for administration operators, including contact/account information and case subtleties

Knowledge the board for client assistance operators

Approaching the information base, operators can undoubtedly look for pertinent articles and furnish clients with answers to their inquiries a lot quicker. Some information articles can shape the reason for a self-administration client entry.

Administration Level Agreements (SLAs) and qualifications

SLAs characterize the terms of ticket handling and specify case the board techniques likewise. Qualifications figure out what administration type clients are qualified for (e.g., telephone uphold just, telephone and email, or elite help over all correspondence stations).

Formats

The likelihood to utilize pre-fabricated layouts for messages, qualifications and information articles can spare your specialists a lot of time. Ensure email layouts contain clients’ names and other individual information to dodge generic mentality.

Reports and dashboards

This element empowers you to envision and examine your client support information. You can screen significant client support KPIs, for example, the quantity of approaching cases separated by a specialist, correspondence channel or case need, and others.
5 stages to consider before you kick off with Salesforce execution
Tags: Salesforce, Salesforce Implementation

Salesforce is an amazing stage that offers various business prospects that are frequently covered up for undertakings. It has developed throughout the long term and we realize that Salesforce has a great deal of profitable items on offer for organizations. Despite the fact that, Salesforce is a well-prepared and simple to send stage, organizations despite everything require building a total Salesforce usage system. To help you, we have distinguished some regular difficulties that you may confront when intending to execute Salesforce. Click For Salesforce Implementation Services

1. Assessing cost

Cost assessment is a key test for some organizations. Also, the expense of actualizing Salesforce can be overpowering for any association. That is the reason it bodes well to comprehend the key contemplations before contributing. Without appropriate interview, business assessed usage costs, authorizing costs and other comparative expenses can make things complex. Consequently, it is urgent to see heretofore how Salesforce items will assist you with meeting your business objectives.

2. Picking the correct accomplice

Since Salesforce is a joined stage for deals, showcasing and client assistance offices, you would need to deliberately design your usage cycle. Yet, on the off chance that it ends up being uneven, you may roughly affect your operational proficiency. Hence, it is savvy to choose Salesforce usage experts that can walk you over Salesforce and its actual capacities.

3. Lacking inner specialists

Employing Salesforce specialists has become the need of great importance, as they probably am aware the stage and can do consistent usage measure. Actually, it would be even hard to plan the current business measure without their inclusion. In this way, it is prescribed to include a venture director and a head from the hour of meeting, as their association will guarantee a smooth and effective dispatch.

4. Managing information movement

Moving information can be dreary and difficult, as it requires the planning of information starting with one framework then onto the next. Also, this is the place most organizations turn out badly on the off chance that they don’t have the correct mastery. Be it overseeing one of a kind IDs, copying information, including custom fields or overseeing access control, they are all aspect of the test. Subsequently, it is smarter to let Salesforce specialists help you in dealing with your information.

5. Coordinating Salesforce

Salesforce doesn’t work in a storehouse and the genuine advantage of Salesforce must be utilized when it is coordinated with different business uses of your association. Engendering awful information and misconstruing constant reconciliation are a portion of the normal difficulties looked by organizations. Be that as it may, when you get this privilege with the assistance of the correct specialists, you can encounter great advantages, for example, improved constant perceivability, measure effectiveness, expanded deals and significant information assortment.
Exit: Salesforce to acquire tech company Mobify
By: Bettina Engert
Tags: Startup, Portfolio News, Venture Capital, Press Announcements, Salesforce

Exit: Salesforce to acquire tech company Mobify

San Francisco, US/Vancouver, CAN, September 04, 2020 — Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Canada’s tech company Mobify: four years after Acton Capital’s initial investment into the tech startup from Vancouver, BC, co-founder and CEO Igor Faletski announced Mobify’s acquisition by the world leader in CRM solutions from San Francisco, US. The Canadian “headless commerce” specialist will provide its storefront solution to Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

“Helping businesses to deliver amazing digital experiences to everyone” — founded in Vancouver, British Columbia by Igor Faletski, John Boxall and Peter McLachlan, global brands such as Under Armour and Shiseido meanwhile rely on Mobify’s “headless commerce” solution to provide a modern progressive web app experience and the infrastructure to host, scale and secure their digital storefronts in a headless environment so they can stay ahead of customer demands and deliver a lightning fast experience across all devices.

“Mobify will provide Salesforce Commerce Cloud with a modern storefront solution that will allow brands to customize their commerce experiences faster and more frequently, deliver an enhanced shopping experience across any channel, and further increase conversion and revenue to drive success in the digital-first economy,” explains Igor Faletsky, Mobify’s co-founder and CEO.

“This is a natural extension of our multi-year partnership with Salesforce and an exciting milestone for our customers, partners, and employees.

Igor Faletski, Mobify

“Upon the close of the transaction, we look forward to joining the Salesforce family and partnering with even more Salesforce customers to unlock the freedom and flexibility to differentiate their digital customer experiences,” says Igor Faletski.

According to Salesforce’s Q2 Shopping Index, global digital commerce revenue in Q2 grew by an unprecedented 71% compared to the previous year. Salesforce Commerce Cloud empowers companies to create seamless commerce experiences for consumer shoppers and business buyers across all channels — mobile, social, web, and store.

“Delivering a modern digital experience is more important than ever. The world has transitioned to a digital-first economy, and online has become the lifeline for many businesses,” explains Igor Faletsky. “Finding success in the digital-first economy takes more than just setting up a simple online storefront. That storefront needs to have the speed, intelligence, flexibility, and scalability required to help companies quickly grow and evolve to stay relevant with customers across channels.”
Welcome Salesforce Data Classification
By: Idan Bliech
Tags: Salesforce Admin, Salesforce

Update : 25/8/2019

Manage Salesforce scheme can be hard task

Create new fields is a click & point task and so, most organisations have tons of unknown fields that were created sometime per someone request or need. The ability to track salesforce scheme got huge improvement (Spring19 release) Salesforce Data Classification’

Welcome Data Classification (the new feature)

With this new feature you can finally Track and Maintain, internally in salesforce every field : Business Owner ,Business Status and Security Classification .

This attributes available only after enable the feature (still in beta) and it include both Standard Object fields and Custom Object fields.

This is a good solution to many use cases where fields need to be mark as:

Internal Fields for administrator/integration use only ‘Management’ Fields Code related helper Fields Formula helper fields for report filters

Fields are pick-list in order to make it simpler to use and report on.

Enable Data Classification in my Salesforce

Go to Setup Enter Data Classification in the Quick Find box Select Data Classification. Select Enable data classification metadata fields and save.

Now go to any object field and see the new 3 attributes, See example in Account Site in the screenshot below.

Account Site standard Field

At this point mass update and export are limited , hopefully salesforce will improve it in the upcoming releases .

You can create reports on your data (stating Winter ’20 Release) :

Create a custom report type with Entity Definition as the primary object. Select Field Definition as a child object. You can include the Data Owner, Data Sensitivity Level, Compliance Categorization, and Field Usage metadata fields in your report.
Around the Web — 20190215. And now for somethings to read (or…
By: Brett Nelson
Tags: Salesforce

And now for somethings to read (or watch) over the weekend, if you have some spare time that is.

Good Day, Sir! Show — Salesforce Podcast — / John De Santiago — Feb 13, 5:41 PM — In this episode, we discuss beer (what else), apex transactions and context, my code, and unit testing.

Cherry MX mechanical key switches with Gold contact, dedicated media control with oversized volume knob, Two-port USB 3.0 Super speed hub — up to 5GB/s, 10x the speed of USB 2.0, Instant sleep…

Salesforce.com — Feb 11, 11:00 AM — You built your first Lightning web component, everything looks great in the IDE, but something is not working as expected in your Salesforce org. That’s the point where it’s important to know how you can debug Lightning web components. This blog…

Andy in the Cloud — Andrew Fawcett — Feb 10, 3:36 AM — This blog will cover three ways by which you can interact programmatically with Salesforce DX. DX provides a number of time-saving utilities and commands, sometimes though you want to either combine those together or choose to write your own that…

Illuminated Cloud — 2.0.5.5 — Spring ’19 / API v45.0 Updates Updated to use an API v45.0 SOAP client and allowed API v45.0 for connections. Added support for the following new language features: WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED SOQL clause $ContentAsset global value provider…

JetBrains — View all posts by Ekaterina Prigara → — Oct 26, 2018 — Jest, the testing platform developed by Facebook, is becoming more and more popular with each day, especially for testing React applications. Jest is fast, easy to get started with, and has lots of features (such as snapshot testing and test…

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How Practice Management System works for modern clinic in 2020
Tags: Pms, Billing, Ehr, Reporting, Salesforce

What is Practice Management System ?

Practice management software (PMS) is a form of software found in clinic that uses mobile, tablet or desktop to deal with everyday operations.

PMS is usually used for financial and administrative purposes, although it is sometimes linked to electronic medical records (EMR) based on the needs of different medical practices.

There are many PMS available in market with different needs, but modern PMS focus 90% on operational side, very less on EHR. And modern PMS works 100% on cloud.

Basic features in Practice Management System

An all-in-one solution that could combine scheduling, document management, billing and reporting into one easy-to-use software solution

Scheduling

Allow patient to book appointment from medical practitioner website, doctor or reception desk can can manage all patient appointment, conform, cancel and reschedule appointment. See overall view in calendar, and scheduling report.

Billing

Administrator can manage all patient billing in one place, billing for consultation and other service, and take printout for bill in one click. Accept online payment, collections, and revenue cycle management.

Reporting

Explore every aspect of your practice and maximize operational efficiency. It should have powerful reporting capabilities allows you to report on every aspect of your practice such as patient flow, collection, service wise performance daily, weekly, monthly.

And from the role financial manager, front desk, medical staff, practice administrators play main role in practice management system, functionality should be support this role.

Integration

Modern Practice Management System should have the capacity for integrate with many related services like Referral management , EHR, link to Lab Information Management System, link to Pharmacy , Patient portal, care communication, etc.

Modern healthcare will work effectively only integrate with other services and tools.
Self identity and slash 自我認同到斜槓
By: Ming Slash
Tags: Python, Naha, Slash, Salesforce, Ios Swift

Self identity and slash 自我認同到斜槓

My careerlife has been in the salesperosn field nevertheless I sometimes wondering if the job is what I like and can be a lifetime job. I have no idea but keep on doing this job day and day, year and year but I know I am not happy in my deep heart.

Someday somewhere there’s an idea came to my mind and a voice told me that I should do things which can be controlled by myself. From that moment, I keep on searching various fileds. Believe me, I attended many courses, such as spiritual development, multimedia design, programming(Python, I have headache when I use macbook pro…oops) then I met Peter Pan’s Swift which hit my head. Wow, I wanna create an App by myself though I don’t know if there’s any change will happen in the future. I just take action and apply the course.

I don’t know if it works this time but I know if I don’t take action there’ll be no change at all. I want no regret in my life. At least, Peter is an interesting and sometimes put some old songs which is retro and good.

pic from: https://cheercut.com/itaewon-class/
5 Powerful JavaScript UI Tools for Efficient Salesforce Components Improvement
By: Xb Software
Tags: Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Salesforce Productivity, Salesforce Tools, Salesforce

Salesforce is one of the most popular CRM platforms currently available at the market. The company offers its clients a wide range of solutions able to satisfy even the most demanding users. Third-party developers can create and deliver various Salesforce components and provide various modernization services which are the key reason for such diversity.

If you’re a developer of Salesforce components and plan to update your solution, improve its functionality, and increase user satisfaction, we would like to talk about the benefits of Webix customization and modernization that you may find interesting. In this article, we’ll consider five types of components available at AppExchange (the Salesforce store) at the moment. We’ll consider the overall number of components, the number of paid solutions, and take a look at how many of them have the highest rating among the users. This info will help you to understand the big picture and choose the field in which you can compete more efficiently. Also, we’d like to share our successful experience of Salesforce component modernization.

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前端工程師美國跳槽面試經驗
Tags: Interview, Frontend, Seattle, Bay Area

Recruitment

Recruiter 管了所有除去在會議室或電話裡跟面試官們講話的過程，這些雜事和細節雖然不是最後會不會拿到 offer 的重點，但或多或少會影響到面試。

Recruiter

共接觸了 7 家公司共 19 個 recruiter ，其中包含 onsite 轉給其他的 recruiter 負責 ( onsite 可能會轉給一個或兩個統一負責的 recruiter，面試前會有 prep call 也會是他們跟你聯絡的，但若是每個 team 各自的 recruiter 就不會轉，像 Apple 就是每個組一個 recruiter 到底)。

一般而言會以為一間公司就是跟一個 recruiter 講話，但其實不是，每個公司的規則不同，通常學校會有 University Recruiter 處理，所以不管是內推、在公司網站或其他網站投，容易覺得是單一對口。但進入工作的世界後，還會有 LinkedIn 上找人，各種隨機狀況。所以其實還是看公司(這句好廢話)。

Process

以下整理過程：

Adobe ：在公司網站投兩個職缺，兩個 recruiter 分別回我，前後時間不一致，第二個人回我時已經面完了第一個 team 的電話面試，所以面試也是兩個 team 各自進行。

：在公司網站投兩個職缺，兩個 recruiter 分別回我，前後時間不一致，第二個人回我時已經面完了第一個 team 的電話面試，所以面試也是兩個 team 各自進行。 Dropbox ：在公司網站投一個職缺 A。電話面試完轉給另一個 recruiter ，在 onsite 前 prep 中才確認我要投的職缺是哪個，討論後說職缺 A 和 B 比較建議我選 A 。我這邊是滿臉問號，所以電話面試時是以為我面職缺 B 嗎。

：在公司網站投一個職缺 A。電話面試完轉給另一個 recruiter ，在 onsite 前 prep 中才確認我要投的職缺是哪個，討論後說職缺 A 和 B 比較建議我選 A 。我這邊是滿臉問號，所以電話面試時是以為我面職缺 B 嗎。 Uber ：在公司網站投完五秒後打開 LinkedIn 收到 recruiter 訊息：在這個 表格上填一下吧我們跳過前面直接排電面。(我： 好唷。)然後網路上投的後來收到拒信，這個表格填時根本不知道職缺，之後到了 onsite 現場才知道我在面的職位是 Senior Web Developer。

：在公司網站投完五秒後打開 LinkedIn 收到 recruiter 訊息：在這個 表格上填一下吧我們跳過前面直接排電面。(我： 好唷。)然後網路上投的後來收到拒信，這個表格填時根本不知道職缺，之後到了 onsite 現場才知道我在面的職位是 Senior Web Developer。 Microsoft ：網路上投都沒有回音。然後一個 recruiter 在 LinkedIn 上傳訊息給我再幫我介紹 team ，介紹之後就是跟那個 team 的 recruiter 聯絡。感覺每個 team 都有自己專屬的 recruiter 。

：網路上投都沒有回音。然後一個 recruiter 在 LinkedIn 上傳訊息給我再幫我介紹 team ，介紹之後就是跟那個 team 的 recruiter 聯絡。感覺每個 team 都有自己專屬的 recruiter 。 Amazon ：厚臉皮地請學妹幫忙內推(也先說了我大概不會去)，recruiter 很快就回了非常有效率。但電面完無預警直接打來說要 onsite 不是很 ok 。Onsite 之後連後面的工作基本上就轉給另一個 recruiter 了。

：厚臉皮地請學妹幫忙內推(也先說了我大概不會去)，recruiter 很快就回了非常有效率。但電面完無預警直接打來說要 onsite 不是很 ok 。Onsite 之後連後面的工作基本上就轉給另一個 recruiter 了。 Apple ：有聯絡過的總共 6 個 team ，都是公司網站投，各 team 的 recruiter 會個別聯絡，也是跟各個 team 分別面試。感覺 hiring manager 也都是直接跟這些 recruiter 聯絡，一個 recruiter 負責一些 team 。而每個 recruiter 都各自為政，走的面試流程多少有差，有人要先問一些 behavior questions，有人不用電話面試就直接排面試。

：有聯絡過的總共 6 個 team ，都是公司網站投，各 team 的 recruiter 會個別聯絡，也是跟各個 team 分別面試。感覺 hiring manager 也都是直接跟這些 recruiter 聯絡，一個 recruiter 負責一些 team 。而每個 recruiter 都各自為政，走的面試流程多少有差，有人要先問一些 behavior questions，有人不用電話面試就直接排面試。 Facebook：網路上投職位，過一陣子收到回音。Fb 有分投 team 的職缺跟一般職缺如 new grad，前端算是一般職缺但是 exeprienced role。

Takeaway

Recruiter 很多細節的地方都可以給一些不重大但重要的幫助，甚至問 “what can I expect from this interview” 也可以從 recruiter 那邊得到提示或對 onsite 面試有什麼建議，最後一關拿到 offer 過程也是跟 recruiter 議價。好的 recruiter 除了做事速度快，在很多方面也可以給你好的提示而不會真的告訴你什麼 (這就牽扯到談話用詞的藝術了)。

一個好的有經驗的 recruiter 會把大部分人會問的細節在你問之前就告訴你，但遇到這種人的機率我亂想了一下大概只有一半，其他就要靠自己問靠自己要資訊。我基本上一定會問對於面試我可以期待什麼，甚至直接問是不是 data structure/algorithms 來猜測會不會是 leetcode 類型。另外前端不一定有但是我還是會問有沒有 system design 問題。如果 recruiter 給一些模糊的答案我就會繼續回信追問，畢竟他們不會是面試關鍵所以不要不好意思，有一點不確定就問就對了。

其他也很明顯感受有些公司流程非常精確(Amazon/Microsoft)，一確認要 下一步就相關資料都會一起寄。有些公司就只有信件説下一步，然後我就會想，呃你們有要出交通費嗎 (然後回信中就提到 It would be great if the company can cover the transportation fee)。秉持追問的精神，我覺得我至少爭取到了幾次面試的交通支出，這些都是灣區公司，所以他們也有你可能可以自己開車過去的打算，但還是有種你沒問他們就打算裝傻的氣氛。當然搭 share ride 還是比較不花力氣，而且都花整天時間去面試了還要自己出交通費不合理。
17 ways to do Father’s Day better this year (on the SF Peninsula)
By: Sarah Klearman
Tags: Bay Area, San Francisco, San Jose, Fathers Day, Palo Alto

We’re serious about brunch

(and to that your dad says — Hi, Serious About Brunch. I’m Dad…) Get this: at the intersection of all philosophical thought around Father’s Day is Porta Blu’s Brews & BBQ Brunch, featuring live music and a classic car show to match ($65 adults, $30 kids). You could also opt for a dads-and-kids putting session and brunch at Mullins Bar and Grill at Half Moon Bay Golf Links. $45 (adults, $15 for kids) gets you an all-you-can-eat selection of barbecue food and a draft beer to match. Or treat your dad to a three course brunch at The Village Pub in Woodside ($80 per person).

Pub in the Park…it’s like a jumpy house…with beer. (Image via Redwood City Events Facebook page)

Like we said…brews

Facebook is presenting Pub in the Park at Mezes Park in Redwood City this Saturday. Pull up a lawn chair to Father’s Day celebrations a day early and enjoy free live music, serious local brewery presence (Blue Oak Brewing, Freewheel Brew and South City Ciderworks) and food trucks galore.

Looking to depart from buying your pops a beer in an overly straightforward fashion? Hit Downward Drinking Dog’s Enlightened Yoga Series at Hotel Nia on Saturday morning, or try out Hop Dogma’s first Beer Yoga instead. You could also bring Dad along to the Hot Wing Contest at 47 Hills Brewing — and then take a free brewery tour, offered every half hour from 12:30 until 4:30 (reserve a spot here).

And if your dad might prefer a glass of wine, Domenico Winery is hosting live music on Sunday with wine to pair.

A full platter from Shoreline’s Father’s Day Barbecue spread last year. Now if only we could think of a terrible barbecuing-themed dad joke to set the mood. (Photo courtesy of Shoreline Lake)

BBQ

If you’d like to leave the grilling to someone else, Sunday is the annual Father’s Day BBQ at Shoreline Lake Boathouse & American Bistro. Enjoy barbecue plates ($13, $15 or $17 gets you one, two or three kinds of meats) and, for $15 a person, an all-day access pass to kayaking, canoeing — all the lake-related stuff your heart desires.

Alternatively, take a ride on the Father’s Day Steam Train at Roaring Camp, which is your train (literally) to excellent BBQ food (wings, specialty sausages, tri-tips sandwiches) and, of course, beer.
Fairness in Action— Re-weighted Range Voting and the Berkeley City Council
By: Felix Sargent
Tags: Voting, Berkeley, Bay Area, Politics

Photo Courtesy Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley

Berkeley had a problem. Cars coming off the I-80/580 interchange were overwhelming a narrow residential street, causing delays and accidents. A citizen petitioned the City Council to create a 4 way stop at Gilman St and Peralta Avenue. This was approved by the council, referred to the City staff, and then languished. The city was overwhelmed with requests from the council and constituents and requested that the council prioritize their concerns.

The Berkeley City Council is made of 8 Districts and the Mayor. Each, except the mayor, has concerns within their district, along with the city-wide concerns. Berkeley was faced with the question of how to prioritize the work for the city government while being fair to each district.

A council member reached out to the Center for Election Science requesting their recommendations. The method needed to be easy to use for the council members, output a ranked priority for each referral and be fair so that a majority of districts did not dominate the ranking system over a minority of districts. To make a voting system fair, you need to make it proportional. Proportional Representation gets deep into the math quickly, but the easiest way of looking at it is when a district gets its concerns met, it should take a step back and give favor to another district so it can get its concerns met.

With these considerations in mind, Berkeley implemented Re-weighted Range Voting (RRV). Council members vote 0–5 stars on each item. The item with the highest score gets first place. But something interesting happens for the remaining items — this is where weighting comes in. District voting power boosted in proportion to how little support they gave to previous referrals. A council member who gave the first referral zero stars has twice the voting power as a council member who gave it five stars. For intermediate scores, the effect lies between those limits. The table is re-calculated without the first place item, then the item with the highest score is selected for second place — and so on. But rather than getting bogged down in the math, let’s look at the results.
This Castro Home With Rainbow-Themed Garage Doors Is a Whole Pride Vibe
By: Matt Charnock
Tags: Bay Area, Pride, “The Bay Snapshot”, San Francisco

San Francisco is coming alive again — catapulted into a new vivaciousness, thanks to the City dropping most of its Covid-19 restriction on June 15.

On Tuesday, SF’s queer bars and eateries were teeming with life. Patrons drank. Customers consumed. Gays got on Grindr (and Scruff) to organize with like-minded ilk and planned kikis at The Edge, Lookout, and throughout other bars in the Castro. For those of us traversing the city’s gayborhood, we were delighted with a swath of Pride flags, chromatic event flyers, and the occasional rainbow light installation.

A few, myself included, even passed these multicolored garage doors that just scream Pride.

Posted on IG by Julie Gebhardt — San Francisco-based photographer, whose uploads are all proudly shot on only her iPhone — the house appears to be a remodeled Queen Anne home, which is an example of the Victorian homes that fill the city. Though the home was likely built sometime between the 1800s, its homage to equality is far from rooted in the past.

Happy Pride, y’all! Here’s to enjoying ourselves (sans masks) at next week’s roaster of queer festivities.
What?? $1 Million over asking?? …what is the full story?
By: Shilpa Joshi
Tags: Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Real Estate Market

A couple weeks ago a story made news and was talked about a lot… a Waverly park home in Mountain View was sold for one million over asking price! Everyone knows the market has gone up very high but people were shocked to hear that someone would bid $1m higher than asking price… actually the main point of that story was the price point was a first for Mountain View!. This is the first $5m plus sale for Mountain View.. out of 15 total sales over $4 million, 11 are in 2020/21!

And the home was gorgeous… beautiful, open floor plan and large 3666 plus square ft foot print on 12k plus lot! Home had a 700 square ft ADU (Additional Dwelling Unit) making total square footage 4366 and 7 bedrooms and 5.5 baths. In short, it was a very unique opportunity, with modern features and ample space.

In fact this is not the first or only sale that received more than $1 million over asking! There are 3 other sales in SC county which received $1 million over asking price in just last 90 days! 909 Loma Verde, 923 Oregon Ave and 188 Lois Lane, all 3 in Palo Alto.

And the home which received 1.55 times asking price, highest in Santa Clara County in last 90 days actually is a very small non-assuming home of less than 1200 square ft, on less than 6000 square ft lot, needing alteration to floor plan and remodel for a family to really enjoy it!! This home is at 2410 Le Bain in West San Jose with Campbell schools. It was sold for over $1.7 million!!

The inventory is very low, the interest rates are low. Need for more space and wealth gain along with the two earlier factors have resulted in high demand pushing prices up.
Of Boat Baths and Broken Backstays
By: Charlie Deist
Tags: Bay Area, Green New Deal, Traffic, Sailing, Berkeley

Darrel (right), a 20-year veteran of Berkeley Marina’s J Dock confirms that Perfect High had not been sailed in 20 years.

“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd,

Whenever possible, you should always set deadlines on projects.

In blogging, the deadline is always “now.”

If you wait too long, the trail goes cold and you lose the inspiration. When in doubt, hit publish, go sailing, get on the road — the cost of not seizing the moment is too great.

This is especially true when it comes to fixing up old sailboats, where monthly slip fees are your tuition and leaving the boat in the slip is like skipping class.

I was a bit skeptical when my friend Jon Connors said he was taking on a “free boat” that by all appearances had been sitting in its slip, untouched, for the past 20 years. It was moldy — no motor — and the halyards were covered in dirt. But beneath the grime he saw a diamond in the rough.

Perfect High is a 1971 Nightingale 24, built for racing by hall-of-fame yacht designer Tom Wylie. The Wyliecat website says this about her:

“With more than half of her 4,200 pounds of displacement in the keel, the boat proved to be slippery through the water and a winner on the race course”

So, Jon was right and I was wrong.

Last night we put the sails up for the first time and half an hour later we were lining up at the start line for the Friday Night Chowder Races, a weekly event sponsored by the Berkeley Yacht Club throughout Spring and Summer.

I had been pushing Jon from the moment he signed his pink slip to race her ASAP.

I had a hunch that the whole project of fixing her up would take on a new dimension after experiencing the boat (named “Perfect High”) in her proper environment. Plus, a good whipping in 20 knot winds is the equivalent of a salt-water bath. After racing, PH’s deck was sparkling, her bow was smiling, and her bottom was probably cleaner than it’s been in over a decade.

“Feels good”

Sailboats were meant to be sailed. That should really go without saying, but there are an unconscionable number of boats laying “fallow” in marinas around the Bay Area — covered in moss and bird droppings — while race ledgers remain nearly empty.

Jon and I have spoken at length about the Green New Deal, and I’ve written about the problems and proposed some alternatives (see here and here).

What does this have to do with restoring a 40-year-old fiberglass sailboat to seaworthiness? Well, the Green New Deal people always seem to have a sense of urgency about their mission to decarbonize the economy. In fact, it’s so urgent to them that they feel the need to jet-set around the world to various symposia to discuss ways of forcing people into their post-industrial schemes (the math never quite seems to add up, but I’m sure that a few more symposia will solve that).
One year later: Following up with 5 local Black restaurant owners after the turmoil of 2020
By: Margot Seeto
Tags: Bay Area, Small Business Owner, Foodies, Blackownedbusiness, BlackLivesMatter

“I want it to stay mom-and-pop, and it’s just mom”—Claire Mack, of Claire’s Crunch Cake in San Mateo. (Image via Claire’s Crunch Cake’s Website)

Claire Mack, Claire’s Crunch Cake

Operating out of her home is what saved Mack from not having to pay rent on a retail space and commercial kitchen — expenses that put other eateries out of business during the pandemic.

“I want it to stay mom-and-pop, and it’s just mom,” Mack said, referring to herself as the main employee.

However, March and April of 2020 “really hit low,” she said. After the call to support Black-owned eateries, though, “People were coming to the door and saying, ‘This is why I’m supporting you.’ I was really proud to be an American,” Mack said of the diverse clientele, sometimes from as far away as Nevada.

While business isn’t quite back to where she wants it, Mack said she likes keeping the business small.

Though focusing on operations during the pandemic often took priority, inequity and civil rights are still top of mind for her. Mack, a three-time mayor of San Mateo, spoke of the frightening efforts to suppress voters in 48 states and the campaign to roll back abortion rights, pointing the finger at Mitch McConnell. “It breaks my heart, and I love my country,” she said.

Mack isn’t currently part of business organizations, though she mentors entrepreneurs on her own time, including helping her teenage grandniece start a business.

Pre-pandemic, Mack regularly had youth in her kitchen to learn how to bake and explore aspects of running a small business. “Anyone who wants to know anything from me, I’m glad to tell them,” she said.

Mack is active outside of her cake business, as well, most recently advocating for an affordable housing measure, and organizing artist benefit performances in San Mateo.

Claire’s Crunch Cake // 233 N. Grant St., San Mate; 650.344.8690
14 fabulous festivities to celebrate the 4th of July on the SF Peninsula.
By: Sahale Greenwood
Tags: Bay Area, San Francisco, San Jose, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto

Plan for a Parade

Redwood City has a jam-packed schedule planned for the holiday! Starting at 7:30 a.m., the Redwood City Fire Department will host a pancake breakfast to help you carbo-load for the 5k parade run at 8 a.m., followed by the largest Independence Day parade in Northern California (beginning at 10 a.m.). After the parade there will be carnival games and a battle of the bands on Hamilton Street (featuring the Stanford Marching Band!). The festivities will culminate with a bang when fireworks begin at approximately 9:30 p.m.

Want to be a part of a parade? Decorate your bike, wagon or scooter in patriotic colors and join in on Menlo Park’s Red, White, and Blue Parade! After the parade, keep the holiday spirits high with a celebration in Burgess Park from noon-2:30 pm where there will be live music, carnival games, face painting and climbing walls.

Los Altos Hills’ parade will kick off at Town Hall at 9:30 a.m. and then conclude at Gardner Bullis School where there will be refreshments and watermelon treats!

(Image via FosterCity.org)

Foster City has a lengthy list of events at J. Ryan Park, including a dog parade followed by family games, live music and grand fireworks! Foster City will be celebrating all day long with events starting at 9 a.m. and going until 9:45 p.m.!

Want to celebrate America’s birthday like a true wild westerner? Check out Woodside’s Junior Rodeo and Parade starting at 7:30 a.m. at Mounted Patrol Grounds, include roping, women’s barrel racing, and bull riding. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for children ages 5 to 18 and free for children under the age of 5.

Half Moon Bay’s Ol’ Fashioned 4th of July Parade will take over Main Street in a mini Mardi Gras style celebration! Watch the parade packed with whimsical floats, youth groups and marching bands starting at noon and going until 3 p.m.

Join the Pacifica’s Parks, Beaches and Recreation Department for their 4th of July Celebration packed full with crafts, games, music and more at Frontierland Park running from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.