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Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by dfc »

NoNameHaveI wrote: post #174
quickthrower2 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would bike to work. It's a nice 12km. But I think it would significantly shorten my life expectancy.

You must live in Iowa, where looking a cyclist at worst, warrants a fund because it is "accidental". We have a major bike ride across the state from West to East every year, called RAGBRAI along a different route. And seemingly every year, at least one cyclist is killed. Rarely is anyone charged with a crime. Tragic

What does your first sentence mean? I can't tell if it's a typo or regional phrase I am not familiar with.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by dfc »

Double_a_92 wrote: post #131
BowBun wrote: post #6

I reached out to a company from a Who's Hiring post and got hired. Great job, got to move with relocation.

How does relocation actually work, especially if you are overseas? I got like a ton of stuff in my home... I guess I could trash my furniture and buy new one, but what about my other things? Does relocation include transportation for that too?

Maybe it would be a good reason to get rid of the stuff you have? It can be liberating to not have to be responsible for keeping track of a bunch of "stuff."

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by mooreds »

r0rshrk wrote: post #186
jacquesm wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love for the whole 'hiring' section to be made a permanent fixture rather than a thing that only happens once every month. A spot in the top bar would be best.

There's already a jobs link there

The jobs link is only for ycombinator companies.

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Post by nugget »

jader201 wrote: post #75

I started the "Who wants to be hired?" threads over 5 years ago [1] after dang giving his blessing on it [2], and was super excited that it led to the job [3] that I still happily hold today. I really wish these threads were more active -- and received more upvotes -- relative to the "Who's hiring" threads, as it seems like the signal to noise is so much better, and also seems like the success rate would be quite a b…

Is there an aggregation tool available anywhere for these threads equivalent to hnhiring.com for the "who is hiring" threads? I'm often looking to hire for startups within my network but sometimes the threads can become tedious to parse through.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

bayesian_horse wrote: post #166
thaumasiotes wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The path my mother followed (as a doctor for humans) was to approach an existing physician about joining that physician's practice. She joined, the patients got used to her, and she bought out the practice when the other doctor retired a couple years later. This was the first thing she did after leaving medical school, but obviously there were a couple years in there of being the junior physician in the practice, whi…

Which in the veterinary field means very low paying entry level jobs.

Perhaps, but I see no reason to believe that recent legal changes pushing American physicians into abandoning their independent practices would apply to veterinarians in Germany...?

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by 0xDEFC0DE »

I have applied to companies and posted my contact info a few times on different usernames: Usually no response.

Compared to some of the other people in those threads, my resume is not stellar, so it's not surprising that they can wait or find someone else that's better.

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Post by speeder »

I got a few offers that were aborded midway for one reason or another, for example a few ones were cancelled after they realized I didn't had a EU citizenship (I made clear I was brazillian and lived in Brazil, but they assumed I had some kind of EU passport anyway... although legally I should have one, bureaucratic issues made me not have one)

Also some companies asked me to do some puzzle style tests, that at the time I didn't pass.

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Post by ldoughty »

kreetx wrote: post #156
Jaruzel wrote: post #144

My view on these 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Who's Hiring?' threads... 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. As such the hiring threads are mostly jobs in that discipline. I'm an oddball on Hacker News, I have a keen interest in all tech development, but my official skill set is Windows Server Applications based Architecture[1], and Identity & Access Manageme…

I agree that the employers/readers of the thread are probably biased towards some areas, but is it really only web? I'd guess also native apps and statistics (machine learning) are quite popular.

Well... back end/infrastructure here (e.g. Linux admin & cloud engineer), so there's gotta be a few of us! But that's not supporting away from "web", it's at least not front end!

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by ldoughty »

duxup wrote: post #64
Uptrenda wrote: post #59

I tried out the last thread not expecting much to come from it and some surprisingly well-matched opportunities came my way. In fact, someone contacted me just yesterday from the same thread and that was over a month ago now! What seems to happen with hiring is good companies very quickly get overwhelmed by bad applicants. Consequently, they have to instate barriers to try filter out the hundreds of unqualified peopl…

>If you've already been in the industry a while you'll probably suffer from the same problem: A hell of a lot of low quality recruiter spam; Bad companies wasting your time with sub-minimum wage offers, and so on. Sometimes you just need 10 minutes to speak to a real person and you can both tell straight away if it's a good fit or not. As a noob I would just like to say...it isn't limited to experienced professionals…

We get TONS of people that apply to our jobs with shotgun strategy... Really annoying looking for an experienced Linux admin and we have to review a fresh college grad with no Linux or Mac experience and one year of java programming. HR policies require us to be fair to all applicants, so our panel had to spend 15 minutes recovering the application and highlighting why they do not meet 9 of the 10 required qualifications.

This is mostly because it system makes it easy to apply to multiple listings, so people upload their information then click 2-3 times to apply to each job.

So, compared to getting a whole lot of those, or "I can find someone for you" responses, I can see why people have more luck reaching out to a community of people with the rough skill set

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