Yep, currently transitioning to a company I found in the October thread.
Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems to happen everywhere these days - I've sent out several applications recently (non-HN) and had absolutely nothing back, not even an acknowledgement. It says a lot for the professionalism of a company when they can't even auto-respond a receipt, although a personal rejection would always be nice - if you can't be bothered to say you're not interested, why should I be bothered to apply ?
Founder here. I used to reply to every applicant individually because I couldn't believe someone wanted to work for my startup. But then that got to be burdensome so I set up a reply template, but even then people would reply to the template and continue the conversation. Then my co-founder pointed out that spending lots of time replying to everyone wasn't a good use of my time. Point is it's nothing personal. If you…
Perhaps you should let the marketing team reply. Candidate interaction is also customer interaction.
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#93I've hired somebody directly from a who's hiring post.
This was the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7830111.
The developer was remote - we did a couple of phone screens and sent a contract over within a week or two. I still work with him and he's one of the best engineers I know.
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#94The job I currently have I got from a "who's hiring" post about 3 years ago. When I first started there was a team of 4, now it's just a team of two, me and the founder. Back in June 2016 I was told that the company couldn't pay me anymore so I had to find another job. I think I sent out 20 or so applications from the most recent "who's hiring" at the time and didn't get a single response.
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#95I was actually very surprised at the amount of folks that simply didn't respond _at all_ -- meaning not even an _acknowledgement_. The folks that I did hear back from were great, though. Nothing ever actually worked out in my case, though.
Even worse is when their application process is "different" and they ask that you write code addressing some specific problem to submit with your resume. I'm not talking something simple, but a well thought out problem that requires a few hundred lines. I get that they're trying to be different and evaluate candidates on metrics other than just resume, but to send that kind of thing in (which takes a week of effort o…
Is it possible they didn't expect the problem to require a few hundred lines?
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#96Other side of the table: we've hired at least 2 people from the "Who's Hiring" posts at here at iRobot.
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#97Yes, my first real engineering job at Factual. I applied as a data scientist (not actually really knowing what that entailed) and was re-routed to be a data/software engineer, which ended up being a great fit. Once I was at Factual I kept running and updating the Who's Hiring post and picked up some other amazing candidates, my favorite of which now works at Google LA with me! It's definitely a worthwhile funnel.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
+1. I actually went through this once (sort of - 5 phone interviews) but that is in no way standard.
My story was - getting interviewed by progressively more senior folks with positive feedback on the spot from whoever I was talking to. So then finally after 4 rounds of technical interview calls I get to talk to the hiring manager who is telling me something along the lines of "the feedback has been awesome BUT we didn't expect to find someone this fast and now need to wait till the next hiring cycle".
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#99I just accepted a job kind of through this. It was with a big tech company but the recruiter ended up having me interview with a different team than the one advertised in the thread.
I submitted a thread yesterday about doing reviews for who's hiring companies but it seems like it was deleted or I didn't submit it correctly. I think there should definitely be more open dialog directly related to these companies posting.
I have had a lot of luck getting interviews through this process and I'm currently writing a blog post on how I approached it and tried to game my way in almost to interviews.
After reading the post by TheMog about the emails they received I can see now why putting in a little effort goes a long way for this.
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#100A post from "the other side of the table" :). The previous company I worked at, I hired two people through who's hiring posts. We pretty much tried it out for about six months as we didn't have much luck through the more traditional channels our division's HR department used. So yes, there are real positions being filled through these posts. That said, just because it's on Hacker News and this is an informal place do…
You have to see it from th job hunter's perspective. It is very common to send out 20 resume's and maybe get a single response or two. It is very time consuming to write a custom multi-paragraph cover letter with every application. Eventually all job hunters learn that you get the same response rate when you write one sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them. Why spend so much effort wh…
Eventually all job hunters learn that you get the same response rate when you write one sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them.
Weird way to look at it. I would think a company that would accept a one sentence cover letter would also accept a longer cover letter, but that the inverse wouldn't be true.
As such, wouldn't a classic job seeker always sell to the longer-letter requirement, since they are otherwise automatically disqualifying themselves from an unknown percentage of employers?