[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
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Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
Please comment here if you've ever gotten hired through HN and what
your experience was like.
Author : snow_mac
Score : 93 points
Date : 2024-07-11 01:09 UTC (21 hours ago)
| ativzzz wrote:
| Twice actually. One time thru who's hiring and once thru who
| wants to be hired. Both were great jobs that I enjoyed. Good way
| to get straight to the hiring manager
| coding123 wrote:
| One time through whos hiring. Applied to about 5.
| banish-m4 wrote:
| Some scammer "founder" invented a "job" to pick my brain while
| pretending to be hiring. Absolute liar. One of those
| customer/feedback chat widgets with video call features.
| sureIy wrote:
| Same thing happened to me. We had an "interview" and then
| ghosted me. Shortly after, his product was Sherlocked and I was
| ecstatic.
| monocasa wrote:
| Sherlocked?
| pmarreck wrote:
| https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
| gortok wrote:
| Industry term for when Apple launches a product that does
| substantially what yours does, or incorporates your product
| features into their product.
|
| https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-
| co...
| banish-m4 wrote:
| The startup was ServiceBell. It was a feature company in a
| crowded market with little defensibility. They're still
| around.
|
| It's easy to get rich quick in business when you're dishonest
| for a short time, but it's slightly more difficult to be
| honest, trustworthy, and not a pathological liar. Karma,
| reputation, and the law eventually catch up with shady people
| who didn't learn anything about the social contract from
| their parents.
| JohnMakin wrote:
| > Karma, reputation, and the law eventually catch up with
| shady people who didn't learn anything about the social
| contract from their parents.
|
| This is comforting to believe but I'm not sure reality
| aligns with that.
| jaggederest wrote:
| More times than I can readily remember. A number of contracts, a
| number of full time jobs. Have attempted to hire on here a couple
| times as well though I don't recall it working out. I've been on
| here since 2007 though, so recent experience is substantially
| different. It's as bad as the dotcom bust in 2001 the last year
| or two.
|
| I generally prefer YC companies and early stage startups, so it's
| generally been good for me.
| zer0sand0nes wrote:
| Really? I wouldn't have thunk that this place would have
| contract roles. Were they w2 or c2c or 1099? The last 2 are
| super hard to come by. Got any tips to share on where to find
| such roles?
| yieldcrv wrote:
| 2007 - 2014 was the heyday for contract roles
|
| now companies are worried about that classification
| jaggederest wrote:
| There's a monthly "seeking freelancer" thread, or at least
| there used to be. I also always mention my comfort working
| contract with people even when I'm interviewing for full time
| roles, in case that's helpful for them. "Any way that gets
| the money from your bank account to mine".
|
| Edit: Also, I do recommend the "startup match" system they
| run, I've been having good success with that this year, found
| my current role and a number of solid roles that were
| candidates for acceptance. Be forewarned, that there are many
| well-intentioned but unserious people on there, so you
| definitely have to do a ton of legwork. Don't judge a book by
| it's cover, some of the best roles were people who frankly
| seemed somewhat unhinged but ended up being really
| interesting and compelling.
| snow_mac wrote:
| Where is the startup match?
| jaggederest wrote:
| https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching
| Lokman wrote:
| once, 2021 march
| doctoboggan wrote:
| I found my first job out of school and my current job both
| through HN Who's Hiring. I have also hired 2 people myself from
| posts I made to Who's Hiring.
| marc_abonce wrote:
| Happened to me once. I was only contacted by the company that
| hired me (and like 2-3 spam emails) so I wouldn't really count on
| HN as my main strategy.
|
| By the way, here's a thread with the same question form last year
| (June 2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36160198
| smabie wrote:
| got contacted by a trading firm when one of the founders saw one
| of my Show HN posts. Was my breakthrough into the quant / hft
| industry and I now run my own trading firm: that one event
| massively changed the trajectory of my entire life.
| zer0sand0nes wrote:
| wowza - is it this post? [Show HN: Xs, a concatenative array
| language inspired by kdb+/q and forth] https://cryptm.org/xs/
|
| How is that life anyways? I know very little about it?
| snow_mac wrote:
| Please tell us more about the trading firm. Sounds interesting
| rch wrote:
| Twice. Both worked out well for me.
|
| Neither was a startup though.
| sdflksjdfertge wrote:
| I used a throwaway account because I was hired through HN. The
| work environment was terrible, extremely stressful, and led me to
| become very depressed. It wasn't until I shared my experiences
| with a friend, who was shocked and convinced me to quit, that I
| realized how bad it had been.
|
| This hasn't completely discouraged me from being hired through HN
| in similar situations, but I will definitely do more research on
| the company beforehand.
|
| This comment was rewritten by AI to anonymize the writing style.
| moomoo11 wrote:
| What stage was the company at and what was your role?
| djbusby wrote:
| Ages ago, I found a player on here who was looking to move to
| where my team was (Seattle).
|
| They had a good "vibe" from their I want to get hired post.
|
| Got them their first gig in the tech space. Now with me at
| another tech play.
|
| This place is great for connecting, the signal is way above
| noise.
| kxrm wrote:
| I was hired, just reached out to the contact on a "Who's Hiring"
| thread for a company doing work I had some experience with but
| was looking to expand on. So far so good.
|
| For background the hire before that was through a colleague and
| the job I got before that was through a news list. I don't really
| ever get any success through more traditional job seeking
| services.
| harlanji wrote:
| I was extended a good opportunity to do entry level web dev but
| left the interview because I felt the coding puzzle was too hard
| for the role, even tho I could've solved it. Computer
| Science/math heavy and easy if already familiar. I still feel bad
| and entitled about that but I acted on the signal I felt and told
| the truth.
|
| Aside, I am all for suitably difficult challenges, and I
| distinguish engineer from developer. Dev shouldn't get CS stuff,
| Eng should. Mention it to benefit other hiring managers who may
| be reading, if it rings fair.
| shortstuffsushi wrote:
| I was hired after interacting in a comment thread with a founder
| that was building the same thing I was NIH-ing at my current job.
| Easy fit to come on since I was currently doing it, but not
| ultimately a great fit. It pulled me out of my first five year
| gig at a huge corporation and helped me see the extreme opposite
| of that, and paid hugely better. I don't think it was a huge
| resume pad, as it wasn't a well known FAANG, but I appreciated
| the perspective it gave me and the redirection of my career.
| chc4 wrote:
| I got my first job through Who Wants To Be Hired in 2019. An
| engineer at the company reached out to refer me based on my
| resume. It was very good for allowing me to break into the
| industry, and it was a great place.
| imroot wrote:
| I've been hired through HN twice.
|
| Once at Singly, in 2010-ish. Was a contractor for about 4 months,
| they brought me on full time, and I spent about a year there,
| left to go to one of the big 4 consulting companies, spent 7
| years there.
|
| The second was at Greenhouse (the ATS) in 2021 -- was there until
| Jan of this year.
| neom wrote:
| I'd love to list the founders on here who reached out and totally
| wasted my time trying to figure out how they should build the
| team they are hiring for vs trying to hire me the couple of times
| I posted on here about working with one of you. Totally overt
| bait and switch. I'm pretty sure a bunch of you would go "hmm,
| surprised those guys did that" given they're "known".
| robin_reala wrote:
| Not directly, but someone on HN reached out to me in 2014 to ask
| if I had time to review their new app. Turned out it was a job
| board (can't remember what the USP was) and among the scraped
| initial data was a GOV.UK job ad that ended up being the single
| most influential position to my career that I've ever had.
| loa_in_ wrote:
| That's kind of funny but I imagine it counts!
| slashdev wrote:
| I've found more jobs through HN than any other channel.
|
| Not the ads, but the Who's hiring posts.
|
| No regrets. I just found a new job, same way.
| unnewsie wrote:
| Yea the whos Hiring Posts are a great resource!
| thrwymsss wrote:
| Obvious throwaway account.
|
| I had around 10 interviews via HN jobs, and around 50ish through
| the startup match making thing.
|
| 7/10 job interviews were fake jobs that actually didn't exist and
| where there's not even a budget available for them. These jobs
| were abused as early customer feedback and I didn't believe what
| happened there. I was basically braindumped.
|
| The interviews from the startup matchmaking site were also kind
| of ridiculous. More bullshit consultants there than actual
| founders or actual developers that could or want to be building
| anything. These consultants want to hire you as a cheap
| developer, not as a founder, and definitely not as a shareholder.
| Happened so many times that I am not using this site for anything
| startup related anymore.
|
| In general I'd argue that HN has a huge vetting problem, and by
| vetting I mean whether or not the intent of the people attending
| there come with honest intentions as to both their experience
| (which pretty much is almost always totally made up if you
| discuss more technical problems) and the idea of putting a lot of
| work into a problem to solve it (a _lot_ of people think that
| having a startup gig on the weekend, but only afternoons, leads
| to anything successful).
|
| Most people come with so high expectations that it feels like
| being inside a ponzi community. Startups are a percentage game of
| luck, and you can only get an advantage if you have the right
| team at the right time, which implies that teams have to be
| absurdly motivated by a problem.
|
| The people I found on this site are the opposite of that. They
| see it as a way to make quick cash because "they heard this is
| how to get rich fast".
|
| I was very disappointed and am now much more involved in our
| local startup related meetups and events, and found a lot of team
| members through that.
| thrwymsss wrote:
| I wanted to add that I was talking about the HN inserted ads of
| their YC related startups, not the who's hiring threads.
|
| (Just in case there was a misunderstanding)
| nfriedly wrote:
| I got my current job by posting on a "who wants to be hired?"
| thread. I was contacted by the person who ended up being my
| manager and got fast tracked through the interviewing process.
| It's at a company that I probably never would have heard of
| otherwise (Fullstory), but I like it enough that I'm still there
| ~4.5 years later.
|
| On the flip side, I can think of three people who were hired via
| "who's hiring?" posts I put up.
| dqh wrote:
| I was hired for my current role at Cortical Labs via a "Who wants
| to be hired?" thread a year ago. First time I had tried via HN, I
| had a great experience and I recommend trying it if you haven't.
| slau wrote:
| I wanted to move to Denmark and saw a startup looking for an
| engineering lead. I applied, received a coding challenge, was
| invited for some interviews with the engineering team, after I
| came back home I had an online interview with the CEO (which to
| me felt like the worst interview in my life), and was offered the
| job along with a relocation package.
|
| Stayed with the company for a couple of years.
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| As suspected, this long-running "Who is hiring" recurring
| submission is mostly fake jobs and has a success rate for the
| "applicants" of close to zero.
|
| Perhaps the "Who wants to be hired" recurring submission is
| similarly bogus.
|
| Free information gathering at the expense of gulllible computer
| users, here, "developers". Another page from the SillyCon Valley
| playbook.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Got a few pings, but nothing of substance. Being in Europe, it's
| not easy.
| itsmemattchung wrote:
| Yup: I had reached out to a small business owner (had to hunt
| down his email) to pick his brain on CRMs. That one phone call
| turned into me consulting for him for a short period of time.
| junaid1460 wrote:
| Me through monthly job posting thread
| perklone wrote:
| I did, from a YC startup based in SEA.
|
| Who's Hiring hit-rate is much better than my LinkedIn hit-rate :D
| karaterobot wrote:
| In late 2019, I applied for a job I read about on a Who's Hiring
| thread, and worked at that company for about 2 years.
| peter_l_downs wrote:
| Me! When I was in highschool I started emailing companies from
| the whoishiring thread, managed to find an apprenticeship in SF.
| My thinking was that before I went to college to study computer
| science I should check to see if I liked writing code.
|
| Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer
| science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist)
| ever since.
|
| Thank you to Mek, Stephen, and Matt for taking a chance on me.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| > Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for
| computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer
| scientist) ever since.
|
| That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high
| school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I
| understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the
| vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software
| Engineering" program, too.
| peter_l_downs wrote:
| I ended up working for 2 years before I went to school, and
| it made a lot of things easier. When I graduated I was very
| certain that I wanted to go back to industry rather than go
| to academia. Definitely different jobs and skillsets.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| The irony is that, I think if I had studied software
| engineering in college, I probably would have continued to
| get a PhD!
| hirvi74 wrote:
| Why do you think such students should have been in SE
| instead? Because it aligns more with their goals?
|
| Perhaps you are right, but I am thankful for my CS background
| despite being a SWE myself.
|
| Understand that I am also close to the intelligence level of
| crayon-eating compared to most on this site. I felt like my
| unspectacular public state university level CS degree
| wouldn't even hold a candle to some of the people's education
| in this very thread like the one commenter who studied at
| MIT.
|
| However, I still believe what I learned was extremely
| valuable. In fact, I am sadden by my level of understanding
| and I wish I knew more CS. Just because I do not apply pure
| CS every single day does not mean that my decisions are not
| influenced by what I learned. At worst, my knowledge has
| never been a hindrance.I refuse to believe that knowledge can
| ever be useless. Not applicable != useless.
|
| Genuine question though, what would a software engineering
| program provide that a computer science student would
| struggle to understand?
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I think you can have an SE track with the appropriate
| amount of CS background. You'd have to, to be a functional
| engineer. (Then again, some I've worked with...)
|
| One reason I also wish I'd gone along an SE track is that
| it would likely have given me a lot more experience
| actually doing what I do for work. Using version control,
| working with others in a group setting, actually _making
| software_.
| laurencerowe wrote:
| Having done a software engineering degree (albeit 25
| years ago now) you should probably not expect it to be
| any more practical in that way. We had only a handful of
| extra mandatory modules over the CS requirements (I think
| on working on larger systems) but no extra practical
| programming.
| devwastaken wrote:
| SE programs are scams in the U.S. unfortunately. Comp sci is
| the only universally recognized and mostly standard degree.
| SE isn't even an option for many hiring/job app platforms
| like IBM.
| cchance wrote:
| I didn't go to college, I got out of high school, took care
| of my mom and almost immediately worked for an ISP as
| customer service, worked my way up over 3 buyouts, and 20
| years to be a sysadmin for the company that everyone depended
| on.
|
| Sadly something I only recently allowed myself to understand
| is that I really don't have passion for networking, I
| absolutely love coding and creating new integrations,
| interfaces and backend, I did a lot of it to patch holes in
| the company i worked for and streamline my own and others
| work.
|
| I'm a remote contractor for that same company now still doing
| the networking and some dev work for them but really want to
| get out and find a company that I can focus more on the
| DevOps side.
| rvrs wrote:
| Your website says you went to MIT to study computer science
| anyways...?
| peter_l_downs wrote:
| Yes, and I learned a lot there, including that I much prefer
| software engineering to computer science.
| atum47 wrote:
| I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost
| every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment
| is it don't happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was
| testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than
| the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with
| 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR
| and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to
| try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work
| for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be
| hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems
| interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a
| coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3
| years now. Great company. Really nice people.
| silisili wrote:
| Nice story, good for you.
|
| I like that you curated your search, hiring would be in such a
| better place if everyone did that. Anymore, every single
| opening gets spammed thousands of resumes with absolutely no
| skill or history relevant to the company. Makes it harder for
| the hiring side and people like yourself.
| atum47 wrote:
| To be honest it took me about 6 hours to go through all the
| openings, selecting the ones I was interested in, writing a
| custom email and adapting my resumee to fit that particular
| opening. It was actually work.
| mylastattempt wrote:
| This is my first time hearing of 'moral harassment'. Is that an
| actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading
| the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully,
| but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!
| atum47 wrote:
| Yeah, I tend to use Portuguese terms translated to English,
| sorry about that. English is not my native language.
| mylastattempt wrote:
| No need for apologies, it was merely my curiousity getting
| the better of me!
| piloto_ciego wrote:
| There was another post in this thread that basically said,
| "toughen up buttercup" that I can no longer find. While I agree
| that this is a dickish thing to say, I can't help but somewhat
| agree with the sentiment that tech workers are perhaps a little
| bit better off than the average person and don't have a lot of
| perspective here about how bad it can get. Not saying that it's
| ok, rather that when you can easily find another job it's
| pretty easy to take a principled stand.
|
| I flew for a living for a long time and was verbally harassed
| at many jobs by a superior. I remember talking on the radio
| once during a checkride - "do you have shit in your mouth?
| Because you sound like it."
|
| He was just being an asshole to rile me up, but it remains an
| asshole thing to say, and you have to deal with it because he
| literally holds your career in his hands. Personally, in that
| moment I vowed I'd never do that to anyone - but it doesn't
| mean it isn't widespread and it doesn't mean quitting was an
| option.
|
| Other times in my career I was expressedly told violate
| regulations or do legal but wildly unsafe things; because I had
| massive student loan debt at the time (I paid all that shit off
| eventually greatest feeling in the world), rent to pay, I had
| to make a lot of compromises I'm not proud of retrospectively
| because I did not want to be homeless or laid off looking for a
| flying job in 2009.
|
| To act as though everyone can quit if their ego gets bruised by
| some jackass is the height of privilege. Many many other
| careers do not have that option. Not saying it is right in the
| least, but I feel a lot of people would really benefit from an
| understanding that how principled a person can be often
| practically changed by exterior circumstances.
|
| That's the thing I want people to take away from all this - a
| sort of "dialectical materialism" sort of view - that being
| able to quit without worse consequences than a bruised ego is
| unto itself a sort of prosperity many many people do not have.
| twosdai wrote:
| I hear you, being able to leave a job and quickly find a new
| one is a great thing to have in this field, and it helps in
| having a great sense of job security.
|
| The issue isn't that these jobs pay well and are great to
| work in so we should deal with any bs that flys. It's that
| people don't deserve to be harrassed, regardless of how
| "good" their work is.
|
| If you make 2 million a year as an investment banker, you
| don't deserve to be unfairly humiliated at your job more than
| any part time fast food worker.
| cchance wrote:
| Thats so great to hear, glad that you got out of that toxic
| environment.
| jszymborski wrote:
| I got hired via HN through the Who's Hiring post and gotten two
| solicitations through comments.
|
| The Who's Hiring post was actually posted by an employee seeking
| a referral bonus. Overall a good experience.
| drcoopster wrote:
| I posted a "Who's Hiring" post as an employee seeking a
| referral bonus. I got a few leads from that and ultimately
| referred two of them, one of whom we hired and is still working
| with us (and me) nearly three years later.
| dewey wrote:
| I reached out to a company here and got hired as a working
| student, still there 9 years later :)
| fuzzieozzie wrote:
| Related: I hired over 25 people through HN (across the world)
| before CompilerWorks was bought by Google in Oct 2022!
| 7thaccount wrote:
| I think I remember reading about your company. Very cool stuff,
| but outside my real skill set.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| I applied for a job from a December 2020 Who's Hiring post,
| started in early February 2021.
|
| I'm still with the posted position: I really like the company and
| the people I work with. It's certainly one of the better jobs
| I've had in my career.
|
| In my 2020 job search, I gravitated towards "Who's Hiring" for a
| few reasons: I interacted directly with hiring managers, and I
| prefer early-stage companies. The concise nature of posts makes
| it easy to flag the ones I want to pursue. The fact that it's
| once a month means I know that someone is actively hiring.
|
| In contrast, I don't like working with non-technical "middlemen"
| recruiters, I don't like FAANG-style hiring, long job postings
| make it hard to narrow down which ones I want to pursue, and I'm
| always afraid that I'm applying to a job posting that's "for
| show" and I'm just wasting my time. (IE, some managers always try
| to keep a few open positions as a way of working large company
| politics without seriously intending on filling those positions.)
| bilsbie wrote:
| I'm thinking the who's hiring works reasonably well but the other
| two: freelancers, and wants to be hired are pretty worthless (for
| job seekers)
|
| Please correct me if I'm wrong.
| Arubis wrote:
| I've found a few clients through the Freelancer/Seeking
| Freelancer posts over the years. It's not a huge contributor to
| my pipeline, but it's not zero.
| Sparkenstein wrote:
| Me
| Arubis wrote:
| I found my first full-time remote W2 through HN back in
| 2013/2014. It wasn't a Who's Hiring post (were we running those
| back then?), but rather an HN discussion that linked out to a
| blog post at an organization that felt like an excellent cultural
| and technical match, despite being a couple timezones away. That
| kicked off an email thread with their tech leadership, and I had
| a job within about a month. Stayed there for four pretty good
| years!
| kevdev wrote:
| I got hired at my current company back in 2022 through their post
| on a Who's Hiring post here. Likely never would have heard of
| them otherwise, but glad I did!
| buggy6257 wrote:
| Not specifically the HN who's hiring etc threads, but through
| YCombinator's job board I was approached, interviewed, and hired.
| Loved the company, work was fun (even if not my favorite
| language), but I upset the CTO by questioning his Golden Boy, the
| CTO stole an idea wholesale from me after telling me it was a bad
| idea, and then fired me with no specific reasons.
|
| If it weren't for that CTO I'd likely still be working there.
| taternuts wrote:
| I think it was almost 7 years ago but I was flown from VA->SF and
| interviewed for a company that I ultimately didn't end up getting
| an offer for, but it was a good experience
| ekvintroj wrote:
| Anyone else from latam?
| private-hr-meta wrote:
| I have the best job in my career and I was hired from responding
| to a who's hiring thread. wish I could give more details, but any
| single data point about the firm yields who it is.
|
| generally, the company was looking for a very unique form of
| talent driven by a certain attitude and experience. they
| developed tools for verifying and filtering for it. if you've
| read any william gibson novels the firm would fit right into
| something he would describe.
|
| if I were to characterize it, I'd say someone who has been any
| one of a FOSS contributor, bootstrapped founder, hacker,
| competitor especially elite level or minor fame in anything,
| autodidact, amateurist, performing artist, among other high
| competence bars that demonstrate tacit knowledge, focus, clarity,
| humility, reflexive curiosity, and related qualities, then
| imagine a firm that had somehow managed to quietly collect scores
| of them.
|
| HN seems to attract a cluster of those people.
| azmodeus wrote:
| Would love to hear more about these attributes and whether they
| are only used for software engineers or client facing roles as
| well
| headcanon wrote:
| I didn't get hired through HN personally, however I did publish a
| Whos Hiring? post for an opening on my team a few years ago and
| we found a great frontend engineer.
|
| I'm super happy about the practice overall and I hope it
| continues!
| tracker1 wrote:
| I'd applied to maybe 20 positions that were applicable in the
| past year. I got either no response or a boilerplate rejection
| from most of them. 2-3 I did get a reply from. Got to final round
| on one of them.
|
| I've gotten about 3 responses when posting to the who is looking
| post.
|
| It can really vary, and depends on what you are looking for, what
| tools/tech you have experience in and experience.
| as1mov wrote:
| I've had 3 jobs in last 7 years, 2 were through HN. The first one
| through here was alright, the pay was shit but the work itself
| was very interesting. Stayed there for 3 years and learned a lot,
| though the working conditions were terrible. I was constantly
| working 12-13 hour days and barely making anything.
|
| I posted here again in late 2019 and a recruiter asked me if I
| wanted to move to Europe for work. Not seeing any future back
| home, I gambled and said yes. Interviewed with the company for a
| few months and eventually moved to EU in late 2020 and been here
| since then. I never got to thank the recruiter in person as he
| had already left by the time I started at the new job. His one
| email in Oct 2019 was something that dramatically changed the
| trajectory of my life. Hi J, if you're reading this! :)
|
| I've been posting on Who is Hiring threads again in the last few
| months but the situation has changed drastically now. I need a
| work permit to stay here and not many companies (at least on HN)
| are offering that. I guess it's time to pack my bags and move
| again to places unknown.
| Fizzadar wrote:
| Twice! First through who's hiring fresh out of university in 2013
| and more recently via a submission (Kanmail).
| qwelias wrote:
| Got a job from here last year, goes alright, tho it was a lucky
| one as noone else has invited me for an actual interview.
| ownagefool wrote:
| I hired a couple who posted they're seeking employment, and
| interviewed a few more than that.
| BrandiATMuhkuh wrote:
| I found my last 2 jobs via "Who wants to be hired" and hired 2
| people via "Who is hiring".
|
| I found the experience was great, in both cases
| v3ss0n wrote:
| Me and 10 out of 15 devs of my team got hired and we are very
| happy with current client for almost a year now.
| elamje wrote:
| Massively changed my life trajectory.
|
| I was working on my first "startup" (if you want to call it that)
| and wasn't getting traction. The owner of a software consulting
| firm found me on Hacker News and brought me in as his first
| employee on a massive contract. We grew the team substantially,
| made great money and that lead to doing a real startup after. And
| then another. All from a post I made on a hiring thread.
| VirusNewbie wrote:
| Man, that's amazing. Glad it worked out. Sometimes I miss the
| old days of the internet where everyone was helping each other,
| so it's great to hear stories of it still happening on HN.
| drewcoo wrote:
| I've been on both ends of successful hiring via "Who's Hiring?"
| more than once. It seemed like CraigsList was really useful back
| in the mid-aughts, then HN lists started to dominate the
| "interesting jobs without BS job board" category.
|
| You're going to get an overwhelming number of "yup, worked for me
| in 2XXX" responses. I'm not sure what the point of the question
| is, though.
|
| The job market for us is very different now than even a handful
| of years ago, so any results won't be representative of now. And
| asking only for survivors won't tell you how successful the
| postings really were to either side, just that eventually the job
| was filled from here and not another source.
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