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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by bitL »

muzani wrote: post #89
bitL wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honeypot is pushing for lowest possible salaries; they outright reject you for wanting 100k EUR jobs even if you held such positions before. They are more like agency for startups wanting cheap labor to quickly burn through. Mind you, German startups rarely give you equity, bypass labor laws (small sizes), pay low and expect insane dedication.

Besides the equity, that sounds like every other startup around the world.

Yes, but regular German companies have a very hard time getting rid of any employees, whereas for small-sized companies there is much more flexibility. So you get all drawbacks of US startups, but 0 shot at becoming rich.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by ioddly »

pryelluw wrote: post #62

Social media, HN, and tech related Slack communities. It's how I got a great job in less than a month.

> tech related Slack communities

Any particular ones? So far, Reactiflux is the only one I've found that seems to have a reasonably active and quality job channel.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by joeblau »

rhizome wrote: post #76
joeblau wrote: post #34

I've tried to brand myself online so work finds me.

How's that working out for you?

It's actually working out pretty well. I would say I get about 1-5 inbound weekly requests from companies like Facebook, Snapchat, AirBnB, Apple, etc. The best part is that recruiters have already done their research for the most part and my inbound is strictly about iOS development positions. I don't really get inbound for backend jobs, or anything else that I'm not interested in.

I would say that it did take me 5+ years to get to this point but anyone can do it with enough effort.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by wikibob »

fecak wrote: post #39
henrik_w wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know LinkedIn isn't particularly popular here at HN, but I think the job adds I get shown there are quite good. Even if I am not looking for work I get a sense of what companies there are, and what kind of positions they are looking to fill.

Your mileage will vary on LinkedIn depending on the time you put into populating your profile. I have written hundreds of profiles for clients this year - some clients are more concerned with branding (what does someone feel when they are directed to the profile or find it on their own) while others are much more concerned with just being discovered by recruiters, hiring managers, peers, etc. The approach is quite di…

Do you have any profiles you can link to as examples? This sounds really interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by menor »

bitL wrote: post #64
lipanski wrote: post #12

https://whoishiring.io which is basically an agregator. I also like the concept around https://www.honeypot.io (I think it's only available in Berlin though). Once you sign up and add your CV, you get a list of quite detailed offers almost every day, including company name (wow, I know, crazy) and salary range. You can accept or reject them through the UI, by just clicking a button. No endless chain of messages to fi…

Honeypot is pushing for lowest possible salaries; they outright reject you for wanting 100k EUR jobs even if you held such positions before. They are more like agency for startups wanting cheap labor to quickly burn through. Mind you, German startups rarely give you equity, bypass labor laws (small sizes), pay low and expect insane dedication.

They are also guilty of posting fake job offers to work at Honeypot, just to let you know later that "we already have candidates at an advanced stage of our hiring process." (one day after the offer being published)

"However, you know, Honeypot is a tech focused career platform and we currently have a number of positions that match your profile."

I'd avoid them

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

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Post by flarg »

wmeredith wrote: post #94
flarg wrote: post #58

I pay the premium fee to LinkedIn and get a small number of lucrative job offers in my inbox every year, doubled my salary a few months ago!

How does paying the premium help you get job offers?

Your profile is emphasised to recruiters during searches, kind of like a premium profile in a dating site.
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