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Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by tzs »

tom_mellior wrote: post #29

I looked at your comments to find your position posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149582 . I'm not your target group, but still... Here's the introductory sentence: "Service Partner ONE is the technology partner for modern office management in Europe." OK, sounds fine. I don't know what office management is, but there are a few more sentences coming up that will surely explain. Next: "Our platform supp…

> Your other post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663077, specifically the part "We analyze this data and utilize advanced statistical methods to take our client’s guest communication and marketing efforts to a new level." sounds like you're a spam company. Nobody wants hotels to "market" to them.

Here's a direct link to his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672442

There seems to be some sort of HN bug or limitation that makes it hard to find when starting from the link to the whole "Who is Hiring" that you gave.

Specifically, if I go to your link, and repeatedly hit the "more" link at the bottom until HN is now supposedly showing all ~1000 comments, and use in-browser search to try to find his user name or to find phrases you quoted from his comment--no hits.

Specifically, if I go to either of the "Who is Hiring" threads the aforementioned comments are in, repeatedly go to the bottom and hit "more" until HN has shown me all that it is willing to show, and then use in-browser search (Firefox 62.0b19) to search for his user name or for phrases from his comments on the page--his comments do not show up in the results.

At first I thought you must have posted a link to the wrong "Who is Hiring", but no, if you go to the direct link I gave and hit parent, that takes you to the link you gave.

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by mabbo »

kakaorka wrote: post #58
mabbo wrote: post #14

Years 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 r…

Are you guys hiring now? I would love to do an internship or apply for a full time role at amazon.

Intermships are for students only. If you're done your education, you apply as a full-time SDE. But there's lots of hiring of those going on too.

Ping me at @ . Happy to help you find a role that's hiring. So many offices in so many cities doing so many things O_O

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by abhishekjha »

mabbo wrote: post #62
kakaorka wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you guys hiring now? I would love to do an internship or apply for a full time role at amazon.

Intermships are for students only. If you're done your education, you apply as a full-time SDE. But there's lots of hiring of those going on too. Ping me at @ . Happy to help you find a role that's hiring. So many offices in so many cities doing so many things O_O

Is it US only?

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by tom_mellior »

tzs wrote: post #61
tom_mellior wrote: post #29

I looked at your comments to find your position posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149582 . I'm not your target group, but still... Here's the introductory sentence: "Service Partner ONE is the technology partner for modern office management in Europe." OK, sounds fine. I don't know what office management is, but there are a few more sentences coming up that will surely explain. Next: "Our platform supp…

> Your other post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663077 , specifically the part "We analyze this data and utilize advanced statistical methods to take our client’s guest communication and marketing efforts to a new level." sounds like you're a spam company. Nobody wants hotels to "market" to them. Here's a direct link to his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672442 There seems to be some sort…

Not a bug, I must have just made a mistake and copied the wrong URL. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by itronitron »

stult wrote: post #8

My company had the same trouble. The demographics here trend too hard toward the Bay Area (we are located in a different, large, and tech heavy US city). Overall candidates tend to be younger and less experienced, oftentimes with boot camp backgrounds. Posts here also apparently tend to attract applicants who specialize in trendy, fad of the moment stacks or more "light" languages and frameworks, when we are looking…

So, if you don't want to exclude experienced people from applying I suggest emphasizing the mission of the company, the size and number of dev/data/design/eng teams, and core languages. A lot of the posts do mention the fad of the moment stacks but I have never applied to any of those :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by olavgg »

stadeschuldt wrote: post #51
olavgg wrote: post #50

I'm a senior full stack developer with data science experience living in EU(Norway). I have not applied for a position that has been advertised in 6 years. All the offers I consider these days comes from cold calls from recruiters or the companies them self. They have to sell them self, as I am the interviewer. Where I work now, we really struggled last year with recruiting developers, so we changed the recruitment p…

When did Norway become part of the European Union?

Norway is a part of the EAA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area) and is a EFTA member (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTA) Basically a member of EU, with a few exceptions.

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by mabbo »

abhishekjha wrote: post #63
mabbo wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Intermships are for students only. If you're done your education, you apply as a full-time SDE. But there's lots of hiring of those going on too. Ping me at @ . Happy to help you find a role that's hiring. So many offices in so many cities doing so many things O_O

Is it US only?

Amazon's got offices everywhere. http://amazon.jobs lists everything hiring- 9000 roles under "software development" and you can filter by city.

Re: Ask HN: Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?

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Post by abhishekjha »

mabbo wrote: post #68
abhishekjha wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it US only?

Amazon's got offices everywhere. http://amazon.jobs lists everything hiring- 9000 roles under "software development" and you can filter by city.

Somehow I haven't got response to a single application I have applied to in past few months. The official portal seems to receive a lot of attention thus signal getting lost in the noise. Or maybe I am not upto the task for which they should mark my application not suitable. is it possible to send resumes to recruiters directly in a given zone?
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