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#32I was hired 2 years ago by Angaza to be one of their early engineers. Found the role when I was idly trawling through the massive hiring thread one evening, mildly dissatisfied with my job at the time, but not really actively looking for a new job.
The company's mission was exactly what I was looking for -- a chance to do good in the world with technology. I reached out via email, got a prompt response, and have been here since.
We are still alive, still trying to lift people out of energy poverty, and still hiring. Our entry in the most recent thread:
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#33Yep. Sent an email a couple months back from a WhoIsHiring thread. Got hired after about 7 rounds. By a company 15 mins away from my house. :)
7 rounds?? Does that mean you go in on 7 seperate occasions?
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#34I did a couple years ago. Attack Pattern (http://attackpattern.com/). They are still alive and well, but I ultimately had to find a different job when I decided I wanted to go remote.
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#35I have. I think only sent emails to one or two companies in that month, and this one had me an offer in a couple weeks if not shorter. Much preferred their interview process to others.
And.. I'm still working there a year and a half later with no intention of leaving any time soon! The people are great and things are going quite well.
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#36Several years ago, the company I worked for hired an awesome C++ dev we found from a listing I posted to "Who's Hiring". It definitely works. He was one of the most resourceful and talented developers we had.
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#37Applied for software developer position at Top Hat (https://tophat.com). Ended up getting hired as their 2nd employee. Worked there for 5 years, after being promoted to VP Engineering and eventually Chief Architect.
Saw the company go from 6 people to 120 people. Incredible ride!
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#38I was doing the hiring for Netherlands Cancer Insitute I got maybe 40 replies with some really solid candidates. We did ~15 interviews and made a couple of offers. But the people we liked had too high salary requirements (or mine is too low, haha). We've tried to persuade them not everything is about money to no avail. I will definitely post the salary range in the ad next time.
Apart from that it was a really pleasant experience and handling the emails was an interesting break from what I usually do.
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#39I 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.
I always hear "we're looking for remote but not in your area". Most remote posts don't actually seem to be truly remote. I'm in the US eastern timezone, shrugs.
To your second point, they are probably fishing for good devs that will work for lower than market rate. They don't actually have a job but are hoping to find a unicorn.
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#40I 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.
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 ?