Until a year or so ago, they were our #1 most effective recruitment vehicle. (We got better at hiring; HN didn't get worse.)
Next step: get better at management to allow remote employment ;)
Yeah, no. Just not how we work. Sorry! :)
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#82Applied to 4 front end positions with a dash of Rails work, 2 of them had uninteresting work so I declined, 1 wanted me to jump through hoops answering some silly puzzles - "Lol no... I'm not 21 anymore, you want to hire me look at my credentials and open source code".
The last one was a great fit and I'm loving the work we're doing.
If you guys want to hire good people who actually respect themselves and will present your business well inside and outside, don't make candidates jump through your silly college-level puzzles. I'm too old for this shit.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you limit remote applicants with "US-only"?
Dealing with remote employees is already something of an effort. It churlish to take the minority of companies willing to do it and complain that they aren't doing it enough because they want to stick with their native legal and social system. (Can I let go of my remote employee in London? Do I need to "show cause"? How much will it cost me just to get a lawyer to answer that?)
Hire as a [long-term] contractor and that's it.
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#84From 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…
Your talk about "black holes" made me realize that when I apply anywhere I should put some URLs into my cover letters to see if anyone ever reads them.
How would you use URLs in the cover letters to check they were read?
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#85Until a year or so ago, they were our #1 most effective recruitment vehicle. (We got better at hiring; HN didn't get worse.)
Speaking of which, how do y'all get most of your hires? Referrals? I've emailed your careers email address for matasano, but I've not gotten a response. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not qualified or I got filtered somehow.
Re: Ask HN: How effective have the job posts on HN been?
#86Until a year or so ago, they were our #1 most effective recruitment vehicle. (We got better at hiring; HN didn't get worse.)
Speaking of which, how do y'all get most of your hires? Referrals? I've emailed your careers email address for matasano, but I've not gotten a response. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not qualified or I got filtered somehow.
No, you should get a response and, if you're interested, a phone call from us, no matter what. Our process is pretty much resume-blind. So if you didn't get a response, you fell through the cracks somehow (actual humans read all those mails, we get a lot of them, and we have spam filters).
Send directly to me? thomas at mycompany.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your talk about "black holes" made me realize that when I apply anywhere I should put some URLs into my cover letters to see if anyone ever reads them.
How would you use URLs in the cover letters to check they were read?
Put them on a server I control and check access logs.
Re: Ask HN: How effective have the job posts on HN been?
#88From 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…
Just curious... you said your best result was "applying directly" after seeing a company on CL, but that emailing the company after seeing on CL was not as successful. In this instance, does "applying directly" mean you went to each company's website and applied on their jobs page? Or did you call them/research and email someone specific/something else?
Yes, "applying directly" means that I went to the company's website, found the job opening, and applied from there. Generally that approach involved more research because I was actually able to browse their website and see exactly what they do.
When I say "emailing through Craigslist", I mean that the job listing did not have the name of the company, so my only option was to email them through CL.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking of which, how do y'all get most of your hires? Referrals? I've emailed your careers email address for matasano, but I've not gotten a response. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not qualified or I got filtered somehow.
No, you should get a response and, if you're interested, a phone call from us, no matter what. Our process is pretty much resume-blind. So if you didn't get a response, you fell through the cracks somehow (actual humans read all those mails, we get a lot of them, and we have spam filters). Send directly to me? thomas at mycompany.
Will do, I'll just resend what I sent to careers. Thanks!
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#90I owe my writing career to HN. I have been writing my whole life (I probably put in my 10,000 hours before I left high school). But until recently, I'd never really considered it as a serious job option. Journalism rarely pays a living wage. Trying to sell book proposals is like trying to make a career out of buying lottery tickets. Unless you are confident you're the next J.K. Rowling [1], you should leave writing w…
I have always been interested in turning writing into a secondary source of income, since I have been writing as a hobby for quite some time now. What genre is your book in, and what kinds of work do you produce? Do you think you could possibly answer a few of my questions over email? Thank you!
I'd be happy to talk. Hit me up at jonfnathanson @ gmail.com