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Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
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#53Thank you for asking this! I was thinking about what's the best way to ask something like this - I was too negative about the $subject to ask anything without offending people. I have been watching these for months now - for a long time just out of curiosity and recently because I'm starting to look for a new job. My own experience is that a single digit percentage of these jobs actually sound like there might be peo…
The way I approach the postings is I look for companies and positions I would be really interested in. Even if I don't meet the requirements, e.g. they want a senior engineer (I'll be a new grad), I'll apply anyways. The worst that could happen is I don't get a reply or a no, but sometimes they do reach back. Recently this led to some great conversations with senior engineers (good career advice and insights into the company) and them referring me internally to HR for when the company starts looking for new grads. There were a lot of no's and that can be attributed to me not being qualified for their positions due to lack of experience in certain fields/tech.
For the ones I did get interviews with recently, I generally met about 80% of their requirements and maybe one or two of their reach requirements.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience for remote-position, at-least I received ack. mails like "time-zone issues are there" etc and like 20% never sent ack. at all. Strangely most often those company appear almost every-month with same job posting, I wonder whats going on.
My theory is that the no-cost HN posting allows some of these companies to keep posting perpetual openings in hopes of finding that elusive 100x developer that's willing to work for less than market rate. I can't say that bothers me too much, though. It's not that hard to see who has the same open req month after month and avoid those companies.
It's 100x now? I thought it was 10x. And theses guys work for _below_ market rate? Interesting...
I have a feeling those positions will be open for a while ;)
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#55At my place of work we no longer post in Who's Hiring threads because we found the quality of engineers applying to be relatively poor. Based in London.
That's interesting. Do you think its due to location, salary, or technical merit?
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#56Thank you for asking this! I was thinking about what's the best way to ask something like this - I was too negative about the $subject to ask anything without offending people. I have been watching these for months now - for a long time just out of curiosity and recently because I'm starting to look for a new job. My own experience is that a single digit percentage of these jobs actually sound like there might be peo…
The way I approach the postings is I look for companies and positions I would be really interested in. Even if I don't meet the requirements, e.g. they want a senior engineer (I'll be a new grad), I'll apply anyways. The worst that could happen is I don't get a reply or a no, but sometimes they do reach back. Recently this led to some great conversations with senior engineers (good career advice and insights into the…
> positions I would be really interested in
Sounds like a good thing to try out - I suspect I didn't try that out until now because I avoid going out of the way to convince people in person - One more thing to work on! :)
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#57I sent out around 9 emails yesterday, got back 3 responses (so far). Both responses came from ads that included real emails rather than jobs@ emails.
I did the same thing for the October thread and had a much better response rate for real emails versus applications/jobs@company. I ended applying to about 25, 15 direct emails, 5 HR emails (jobs@company), and 5 applications. Only about half of the direct emails got back, but the ones that did all ended up having interviews with (about 3/15 are in later stages of interviews or have an offer). 4/5 HR emails replied, only 2-3 were genuine and of that 1 got me an interview (ended up not being a good fit anyway). Of the 5 applications, I nearly got automated rejections within 24 hours :(.
Even though the emails had lower response rates, they work much better in my experience. You get to talk to someone (usually an engineer or manager, sometimes a founder or exec) at the company.
Wish you the best!
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
7 rounds?? Does that mean you go in on 7 seperate occasions?
Seems like the standard 2 phone screens + 5 onsite interviews.
5 onsite interviews? Since when is that 'standard'? Unless you mean one day with talking to 5 different people. I wouldn't consider that to be 5 separate 'rounds', though.
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#59At my place of work we no longer post in Who's Hiring threads because we found the quality of engineers applying to be relatively poor. Based in London.
That's interesting. Do you think its due to location, salary, or technical merit?
A lot of people come to HN only for Who's Hiring and thus don't represent the average poster. While Who's Hiring not as bad as Indeed, it's still an open job listing so you're bound to get a lot of noise.
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#60I was doing the hiring for Netherlands Cancer Insitute I got maybe 40 replies with some really solid candidates. We did ~15 interviews and made a couple of offers. But the people we liked had too high salary requirements (or mine is too low, haha). We've tried to persuade them not everything is about money to no avail. I will definitely post the salary range in the ad next time. Apart from that it was a really pleasa…
> But the people we liked had too high salary requirements (or mine is too low, haha)
Not everything is about liking the candidate. You don't have to like them for them to do a good job, because if you don't hire the ones with high salary requirements, you end up with no one.