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

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Post by CapnCrunchie »

blinkingled wrote: post #30

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 peo…

At GitLab, we have this line at the bottom of our job postings:

  Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply.
We believe that while it would be nice to have someone that exactly checks all the boxes, we are willing to look at candidates that might not feel they are all the way there.

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

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Post by sshumaker »

We (Credit Karma) hired two engineers from September's posting. One so far from October's (5 candidates are still in pipeline, more new grads).

We've hired front-end, data engineers, and eng lead roles. A bunch of full stack engineers are in the pipeline.

I personally respond to every candidate that reaches out (scott.shumaker at credit karma dot com), so that helps ensure they don't get lost in our HR pipeline.

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

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Post by johnward »

mobiuscog wrote: post #40
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.

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 ?

I take the time to filter out jobs that I know I would be good at and then write a cover letter and customize my resume for the job, only to not hear any acknowledgement at all. I'm about to just blast my resume out with no filter and see what happens.

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

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Post by blinkingled »

CapnCrunchie wrote: post #41
blinkingled wrote: post #30

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 peo…

At GitLab, we have this line at the bottom of our job postings: Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. We believe that while it would be nice to have someone that exactly checks all the boxes, we are willing to look at candidates that might not feel they are all the way there.

Yes, the occurrence of these was so slim that I do distinctly remember seeing that on the GitLab jobs page! Thank you for taking a realistic approach to hiring - I will see if I can find anything that excites me @GitLab!

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

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Post by soulnothing »

phd514 wrote: post #22
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.

At the time I hadn't started commenting :). So didn't have a HN account to mention.

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

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Post by Nexialist »

Earlier this year I spent roughly three months job hunting exclusively through cold-emails based on Who's Hiring posts (I'm in the London area). I applied for 10 positions (and got my 10th - at a fairly large media company)

Some numbers of reasons that I felt I didn't get through the hiring process at the positions I applied for:

* Company changed their mind hiring for the position - 3 cases

* Didn't get through due to insufficient experience - 2 cases

* Didn't get through due to for poor performance on the hiring test - 3 cases

* No response received - 1 case

These numbers are a bit flaky since in the end it's a combination of factors that results in a yes/no decision. But I tried to roughly divide them into what I felt was the main "deciding factor" of the interview process.

For background, I'm a backend / "full stack" developer with 5 years experience (Most of the places that I got filtered out for experience reasons were because I didn't have enough of Brand X, etc)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

phd514 wrote: post #24
giis wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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