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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by tanganian »

soneca wrote: post #63

Front-end developer here. I use exclusively AngelList and HN's "Who is hiring?" (my last 3 jobs came from those places), but that's because of my particular case. I am Brazilian, no intention to relocate, but I want to find a job at an American company because they pay way better (even more considering the exchange rate of the Brazilian Real vs US Dollar in the last couple of years). So I need to find US companies th…

Hey, can we chat about this in more details? I'm in a situation where I'm looking for a job from a US or EU company, would be really helpful to have your input as you already did it.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by soneca »

tanganian wrote: post #71
soneca wrote: post #63

Front-end developer here. I use exclusively AngelList and HN's "Who is hiring?" (my last 3 jobs came from those places), but that's because of my particular case. I am Brazilian, no intention to relocate, but I want to find a job at an American company because they pay way better (even more considering the exchange rate of the Brazilian Real vs US Dollar in the last couple of years). So I need to find US companies th…

Hey, can we chat about this in more details? I'm in a situation where I'm looking for a job from a US or EU company, would be really helpful to have your input as you already did it.

Sure. I don’t mind keeping it async and public in this thread. But if you prefer to do it privately, let me know and I ping you on the email you have on your profile.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by decafninja »

I've gotten all my jobs via a recruiter reaching out first.

Cold applying to a job posting whether it be on LinkedIn or the company's site has always resulted in being ignored or getting swiftly rejected with a generic reason.

Trying to use my network has gotten me to the interview stage, but from that point on it's no different from going through a recruiter - you get the typical leetcode interview. In my case, I've failed all the leetcode interviews I've gotten through my network, so my success rate there is 0%.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by s1artibartfast »

wolongong942 wrote: post #20
jstx1 wrote: post #3

Recruiter reached out while I was also actively searching (and I had been for a while) and I ended up liking the position and the team. I don't know what "using my network" would even mean - just limit myself to a handful of companies (that I know nothing about) and cold-message people that I haven't spoked to in months/years so they can maybe check if there are open positions (which I could have looked up on the com…

Another weird one the 'JuSt NetWoRk Bro' people recommend is 'Just message random employees at the company on LinkedIn and ask them out for coffee'. I've often wondered if anybody has done this one successfully without just creeping out a bunch of people and getting blocked.

Keep in mind that some companies offer a nice bonus for a reference that leads to a hiring and it makes a lot more sense. I have seen referral bonuses up to 50k.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by lbutler »

I'm a civil engineer and I wrote an open source library that compiled a C library to javascript for my own personal projects - epanet-js [1]

A water utility in Spain spun off a start up called Qatium [2] and they used my library as the engine of their simulations and asked me to join.

[1] https://github.com/modelcreate/epanet-js

[2] https://qatium.com/

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by rubidium »

OJFord wrote: post #68
rubidium wrote: post #24

Not a programmer, but new Physics PhD grad in a mid-sized midwest city.... so exactly 0 job board postings looking for my credentials. Resorted to technique of Guerilla marketing for job hunters: https://www.gm4jh.com/ . Made a list of the top 4 companies that were interesting to me, and started cold-calling. Started a job at the top of the list 2 months later. I did have to take a job for which I was overqualified;…

Why do these websites always look like some sort of self-help cult, why can't they just propose some methodology and sell a book with more details?

Yea, I linked to the website instead of amazon, but really just read the book. Don't read the website.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by aurbano »

wolongong942 wrote: post #20
jstx1 wrote: post #3

Recruiter reached out while I was also actively searching (and I had been for a while) and I ended up liking the position and the team. I don't know what "using my network" would even mean - just limit myself to a handful of companies (that I know nothing about) and cold-message people that I haven't spoked to in months/years so they can maybe check if there are open positions (which I could have looked up on the com…

Another weird one the 'JuSt NetWoRk Bro' people recommend is 'Just message random employees at the company on LinkedIn and ask them out for coffee'. I've often wondered if anybody has done this one successfully without just creeping out a bunch of people and getting blocked.

Referral bonuses though, if your profile looks good I would probably do a quick coffee or even a video call nowadays and then pocket a nice little bonus if you make it :)

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by _benj »

I’m a Software Engineer. I joined the gopher slack (community for Golang developers) and monitored the #jobs channel. A post called my attention, chatted with the poster who happened to be the hiring manager, and a few weeks later I had the job.

Quite a few devs communities have such channels and what I appreciate about slack is the ability to start a quick chat with the poster in an informal way, get a referral and overall skip the whole ATS resume black hole.

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