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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?

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Post by nxor » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 9:03 PM UTC

uyzstvqs wrote: post #7

There is no good place to find a job in tech in 2025. But HN "Who wants to be hired" is probably the best. You'll at least get some serious interviews (maybe, potentially, hypothetically), compared to none at all on LinkedIn or Indeed. At least in Western Europe, that is.

Yeah and speaking of LinkedIn, it continues to amaze me that people regard that site as worthwhile. Which sounds harsh, and I know people have gotten jobs there, but with how the rest of the site is, I am skeptical of it

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?

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Post by trod1234 » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 6:06 AM UTC

paulcole wrote: post #10

trod1234 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> For real data, the average cold-submit of CV to interview ratio has been around 1:1200 for LI/Indeed. What's the source of this?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?

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Post by brokegrammer » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

I didn't get anything apart from a bunch of spam emails. I stopped putting my email address in the post, now I don't get any emails.

Could also mean that I don't have the right skills though.

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?

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Post by AznHisoka » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:56 PM UTC

anaaa12 wrote: post #9

Who is hiring for a remote data engineer roles.

Fwiw, i send out a daily email of remote jobs and one of them is remote data engineering: https://bloomberry.com/blog/remote-jobs/

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?

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Post by paulwilsonn » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 10:43 AM UTC

HN can still work, but it’s niche. Most opportunities are for senior engineers, founders, or highly technical roles, not general job listings. The signal-to-noise ratio is high - you won’t see volume like LinkedIn, but the connections and leads you get here tend to be higher quality.