Let me guess, no remote and no or low salary listed?
Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?
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#12I got my current job from a 'Who is Hiring' post, so clearly it worked for someone! It's not a replacement for a solid recruiting team/funnel, but having been on both sides of the process I found it a useful resource. FWIW.
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#13I never had a lot of hits for Clojure in Chicago, but the candidates were above average. I've made 2 hires over 5 years and a small handful of posts.
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#14Years back I posted saying my local team was hiring (at Amazon) and mentioned we hire interns. Got 20 resumes from students looking for internships, 6 of whom got hired.
When I submitted them to the recruiting, I made it clear these weren't personal references, nobody I knew. But the recruiter filed them that way anyways, so I got like $500 bonus per intern hire. A nice $3,000 bonus for a HN post and funneling some resumes over to a recruiter.
None of the full time resumes went anywhere, sadly- they're worth considerably higher bonuses.
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#15You link to the German versions of your website. I don't know German. You don't talk about your development practices or team experience. Your industry isn't shiny. You don't list salary. Incidentally, I was just talking to the guy who posts for a Boston manufacturing startup who says they have hired many solid engineers from here
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#16If you point to the particular postings might be easier for people to give helpful feedback.
They haven't posted much else than job postings: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fjahr
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#17Most of the people prefer remote these days.
Citation needed, that sounds like a very biased view of things.
I would say that a job available on site OR remotely will attract more candidates than an on site only.
To share my own experience, I've just bought an apartment and I've been thinking of working in a new company. I will automatically exclude non-remote positions (also the reason why I might leave my current company as the managers can work remotely no question asked but the devs can't...)
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#18I'm looking for remote work only (family issues). I'd love to work in European hours. However, US companies pay 30-50% more. This way I don't even send any applications to the European ones.
I'm not sure if you would consider me above medium (however during the last 16 years I learned a lot). The people I know who are much above medium have jobs. They don't look too much for them and are old enough to forget about traveling for work (house, dogs, kids, school).
I noticed that you only post about on-site positions. I'm too old for ad-hoc moving to another country. I don't speak German enough to do shopping. I could work for you but only remotely.
If you would consider remote employees, I'm sure you would get much more interesting applications. But then there is the problem from the first paragraph: if someone is looking for a remote position and some companies pay more, it's rather obvious that they will get most of the most interesting applications. The rest will go to those paying less.
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#19We're in London. Mostly applicants are based in other countries (like the US) when we explicitly say that's not an option, so they're ruled out immediately.
Over the last couple of years we haven't had many applicants via it at all - but we did hire a really great developer through it, so it's still worth it.
The one thing I would say is that it's worth setting up a hiring page generally. Then you can have an application form on there which most the lower grade candidates just bounce on anyway.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Citation needed, that sounds like a very biased view of things.
I would say that a job available on site OR remotely will attract more candidates than an on site only. To share my own experience, I've just bought an apartment and I've been thinking of working in a new company. I will automatically exclude non-remote positions (also the reason why I might leave my current company as the managers can work remotely no question asked but the devs can't...)
The most annoying ones are:
- REMOTE (US West Coast Only)
- ONSITE or REMOTE (onsite preferred)