I've posted many UI programmer job openings I have in my team, never even received a resume. Good programmers are hard to find.
Did you post as in hn/jobs or in "who is hiring"
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#32Until a year or so ago, they were our #1 most effective recruitment vehicle. (We got better at hiring; HN didn't get worse.)
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#33My experience as job applicant: Who is hiring, March 2014: I received three responses to my applications. One for code samples (no follow up afterward), one for quick phone conversation, and one for phone interview (Ed: three different companies). Seeking Freelance, March 2014: No response. Who is hiring, Feb 2014: No response. Seeking Freelance, Feb 2014: No response. YC Companies /jobs: No ACK or response in last t…
Hey thanks for your response. Some follow-on questions: 1. How often do you visit HN in day? 2. How do you generally spend your time on HN? reading new articles, reading comments, Commenting and participating, or something else? 3. Are you actively looking for a job, or you stumble across a good job posting when doing your normal browsing?
I visit HN few times a day. It is my guilty pleasure and a quick break from the work I may be doing. If I comment, I browse often to see if anyone responded or to follow-up on my comments.
I read articles and comments if I find article title/submission interesting. I comment only if I have an opinion, experience or something new to add.
I am actively looking for job, was laid off end of Dec.
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#34We get great applicants (https://circleci.com/jobs), and have hired over half the company this way (maybe 6 or 7 people).
However, we have a lot that appeals to the HN crowd: a flat organization, CircleCI is written in Clojure, the company is half remote, we make tools for developers and we're committed to private offices per dev for SF hires.
So your mileage will definitely vary.
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#35Seeking freelancer has netted me a 3 to 1 rate for new clients on average every time I've posted. Far better then posting on elance or similar sites.
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#36My experience as job applicant: Who is hiring, March 2014: I received three responses to my applications. One for code samples (no follow up afterward), one for quick phone conversation, and one for phone interview (Ed: three different companies). Seeking Freelance, March 2014: No response. Who is hiring, Feb 2014: No response. Seeking Freelance, Feb 2014: No response. YC Companies /jobs: No ACK or response in last t…
Did you contact the companies looking to hire full timers / freelancers? Or did you just post your ad and hope someone would proactively contact you? If the former, how many companies have you contacted that you got “no response” from?
I contact companies and people posting to hire FT and freelancers.
I posted only once as ad in Seeking Freelance thread, received no inquiry.
From March thread, I contacted 12 companies through email or online applications.
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#37Got my current job on here
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#38From the viewpoint of a job applicant, I have been very happy with the job postings on HN. Of the 4 jobs that I applied to over the past 3.5 years (I'm pretty selective), all 4 responded to me on the same day, and 3 resulted in phone interviews. Those numbers are very good compared to other job posting sites.
I found that job aggregation sites like Monster performed absolutely terribly. In that same category are the careers website that large companies like Microsoft and Boeing have, which are basically black holes. I can't remember ever getting a response from any of them. It's easy to spam your resume to dozens of jobs at once, but 0/1000 is still 0.
My favorite technique (which got me my current job) was to apply to the company directly after finding the job opening through Craigslist or other means. Applying directly got me a response rate of 14/17, and an interview rate of 10/14.
Emailing companies directly through Craigslist was fairly poor for me, and gave me a response rate of 2/8, and an interview rate of 1/2.
I realize that my sample size is small, but I hope it helps.
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#39Got a few interesting nibbles after posting on the who's hiring posts, but specific hiring submission didn't get far. We're based in Cape Town, so perhaps reader geography plays some part. If you're in our part of the world, have skills in frontend development, java, or python, and you want to work at a fast growing mobile payments company, send me a mail (email on profile)
Same as the other commenter, I'm interested. Canadian but I'd like to work in Africa. HN doesn't display your email address, you have to post it in your bio.
I you can find it in his previous comments, he's posted in the "Who's Hiring" before. I would repost but I assume it's something about avoiding spammers?
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#40I once applied to a job post in the one of the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads. I got a callback and we discussed the my experience, the company, and the position.
They were interested in conducting a further interview, but, based on the what I learned in the phone conversation, I decided we wouldn't be a good fit together and so declined to move forward.
I do enjoy reading the threads each month to see what the industry is up to from a hiring perspective.