Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by giis » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

joekrill wrote: post #6

I 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.

In my experience for remote-position, at-least I received ack. mails like "time-zone issues are there" etc and like 20% never sent ack. at all. Strangely most often those company appear almost every-month with same job posting, I wonder whats going on.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by phd514 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

soulnothing wrote: post #11

When I was searching. I went through the listings and sent out a number of messages. Not bulk, but carefully looked at each company. Gauged my interest and figured out why I wanted to work there. Nary a response. I thought it was because I was a lurker, and didn't post before that point.

Did you mention your HN handle in your application? I don't do that but I still get a pretty high response rate.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by throwawayfdsj » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:43 PM UTC

At my place of work we no longer post in Who's Hiring threads because we found the quality of engineers applying to be relatively poor.

Based in London.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by phd514 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:47 PM UTC

giis wrote: post #21

joekrill wrote: post #6

I 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.

In my experience for remote-position, at-least I received ack. mails like "time-zone issues are there" etc and like 20% never sent ack. at all. Strangely most often those company appear almost every-month with same job posting, I wonder whats going on.

My theory is that the no-cost HN posting allows some of these companies to keep posting perpetual openings in hopes of finding that elusive 100x developer that's willing to work for less than market rate. I can't say that bothers me too much, though. It's not that hard to see who has the same open req month after month and avoid those companies.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by eggie5 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:49 PM UTC

+1

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by hamandcheese » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC

I sent out around 9 emails yesterday, got back 3 responses (so far). Both responses came from ads that included real emails rather than jobs@ emails.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by busterarm » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:53 PM UTC

I got a couple of meetings and interviews from Who's Hiring posts but none of them resulted in offers. I'd still say it's my best and first channel for finding work beyond my network/relationships.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by nl » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:54 PM UTC

No.

But I did get flown to the US (from Australia) for an interview.

It was for a DevRel position at a (quite successful) YC company. I've never done DevRel, but I did have a background in the field. Almost my communications was with the CTO.

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by rahij » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

Yep, I was hired as a software engineering intern from one of Scribd's Who is Hiring posts (also ended up interviewing at Stripe by contacting them from their post).

Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

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Post by blinkingled » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:57 PM UTC

Thank you for asking this! I was thinking about what's the best way to ask something like this - I was too negative about the $subject to ask anything without offending people.

I have been watching these for months now - for a long time just out of curiosity and recently because I'm starting to look for a new job.

My own experience is that a single digit percentage of these jobs actually sound like there might be people who can interview for those if one had to check all tick marks on the skills and experience requirements faithfully!

This to me is baffling and discouraging as I typically don't want to bother with jobs I can't check all boxes for even though I am fairly confident I could easily do those jobs!

Anyone who was hired - can you comment on the delta between what the job posting asked for and what you actually had along with how closely what you actually did matched with what was asked for?