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

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

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Post by nogbit »

TheMog wrote: post #80

A 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…

And the most recent whos hiring from yesterday I only saw one "cover letter required". I do that when I hire. I love reading them. So many are obvious boilerplate copy/paste that the applicant is sending to everyone, or, poorly written (these go to the trash can). The ones that are keen have a story to tell about how the position aligns with their experience.

On the applying side, I choose only 5 companies last time and wrote very strong cover letters. Got a call from all of them. HUGE time saver when job searching, be picky with who you apply to and craft a good cover letter.

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

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Post by johnward »

mysterydip wrote: post #75
johnward wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And I think that's the crux of the issue. When I was laid off, I hit the job boards. I started out being careful with my choices, doing custom cover letters, etc., but after no response from many, I started "shotgunning" and hoping something would stick. But that's what everyone else is doing: one-click apply to job/send your resume, and then HR gets overwhelmed, and determines not to send individual responses, which…

I think you nailed it. Then the recruiters start doing the same thing on the other end. I have 10 years of experience ands till get entry level help desk positions in my inbox.

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

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Post by mattmanser »

throwawayfdsj wrote: post #23

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.

Without context, what does this mean? It could simply reflect the quality of your advert rather than the medium.

For example, on yesterday's Who's Hiring I saw a London advert for a full stack dev with 4-5 years experience for £38k-£44k[1].

That's a very low salary for London.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846786

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

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Post by johnward »

sulam wrote: post #72
johnward wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are tax implications for having an employee in some states, regardless of what the person is paid. For instance I've been told that it would cost us several million dollars to hire someone remote who lives in New York. That developer would have to be really amazing to make it worthwhile to hire them!

That's interesting. Sometimes I do see "remote (Seattle area only)" or something like that. I work remote now but my company basically has a presence in every state and most countries.

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

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Post by TFortunato »

svec wrote: post #96

Other side of the table: we've hired at least 2 people from the "Who's Hiring" posts at here at iRobot.

Hey I was going to post about iRobot, and you beat me to the punch again!

On this - I was one of those hired by iRobot from one of these threads, and this was the guy who I first spoke to about the job!

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

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Post by VLM »

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.

"appear almost every-month with same job posting, I wonder whats going on."

Perhaps H1B fraud? There's a local company just a mile from my house that's been advertising the same $50K CCIE position for near fifteen years now.

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

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Post by jaz46 »

VeXocide wrote: post #19

Two years ago when the "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" thread appeared for the first time I wasn't quite happy where I was at, and posted my details. I was located in the Netherlands at the time and literally one of hundreds posting, thus I didn't have too high a hopes, but why not. A few local companies reached out, and I interviewed with one or two, but for whatever reason neither ended up working out. At that poi…

I'm the guy from RethinkDB who found and hired Jeroen!

I will say it's pretty rare, but when searching for a very particular skill set "Who wants to be hired" can totally work for finding new to mid-level devs.

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

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Post by personjerry »

FLGMwt wrote: post #85
AustinBGibbons wrote: post #71

I am a software engineer at Periscope Data ( https://www.periscopedata.com ), and discovered the company through a Who's Hiring thread, and we have hired at least two other software engineers through HN Who's Hiring since then as well. I was searching for "scala" and they had the word "scalable" :-)

Hah, I have the same problem, but the flip side. I'm searching the "who wants to be hired" posts on behalf of my company ( https://www.rallyhealth.com ). I search "scala" and get excited when I see 20 or so hits, but almost all of them are "scalable"

Try searching for "Scala " or "Scala." or "Scala,".
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