A few years ago I contacted a few people, and got contacted myself a few times with a "who wants to be hired" post. Some of those led to interviews, the one that led to a job was from being contacted through my "who wants to be hired" post.
Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
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#172Yes, I have gotten contracts (not salaried jobs).
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It's possible that how much effort a candidate puts into demonstrating token emotional attachment to a job posting is not a great predictor of job performance.
Correct. It's also possible that, as a candidate, demonstrating token emotional attachment to a job posting positively correlates with advancing through the candidate funnel. Your strategy is yours to choose.
If that is how a given company filters for candidates, then I have desire to advance through their funnel.
This seems like a reasonable deal to me.
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#174I did! I guess the title was "generalist hacker type." Here's the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325886
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#175While I have not, I have had three experiences recently that I would like to relay for whatever it is worth. In the past years that I have responded to these monthly posts, three of them have progressed into multiple phone/Skype interviews and two of those multiple phone /Skype interviews have progressed to on site interviews one in San Francisco and one in Berlin. The one that consisted solely of multiple rounds of…
I wish you would name the companies so I can avoid them.
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5 onsite interviews? Since when is that 'standard'? Unless you mean one day with talking to 5 different people. I wouldn't consider that to be 5 separate 'rounds', though.
We do the following: 1. look at resume 2. recruiter phone screen, just basic are you a human who knows how to answer the phone, usually 15-30 minutes 3. tech phone screen, 45 minutes 4. half-day in-person set of interviews, some tech and some not And then make a decision, although we'll filter out at each step.
Your process seems pretty standard to me, and what I've experienced most of the time. That's not the same as 5 onsite interviews though. I do know some people that have been called in for 3 onsite interviews though, which seems pretty excessive. 2 I can understand, and I've had 2 onsite once before.
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> I easily get 100+ resumes, and I don't have days to spend trawling through them It is your job to look through resume's. This is what you are paid to do. You claim to be a hiring manager. It is not my responsibility to convince you to do the job you are paid to do. My resume contains all the information you need to make the determination of whether I am qualified for the job, including "I love writing web apps in R…
Write one cover letter and copy paste. I can totally understand prose selling better than a listing of "past things done".
Is it really "prose" if it's written in such a way that it can be copied over and over again?
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#178While I have not, I have had three experiences recently that I would like to relay for whatever it is worth. In the past years that I have responded to these monthly posts, three of them have progressed into multiple phone/Skype interviews and two of those multiple phone /Skype interviews have progressed to on site interviews one in San Francisco and one in Berlin. The one that consisted solely of multiple rounds of…
I wish you would name the companies so I can avoid them.
You don't think people would be upset if I did that? I wish there were a good forum to do so. Because like you mentioned people could potentially avoid a similar experience.
Re: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
#179Yes, twice.
First I was hired for a mid-level mostly-remote web dev position at Moveline and stayed there roughly a year until the company folded.
My current job at Socrata, where I've been quite happy for the past 18 months, also came via a monthly HN jobs thread; it has been mostly doing frontend web dev (but with enough variety).
If I find myself in need of employment again, I will undoubtedly turn to the jobs thread again.
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I wish you would name the companies so I can avoid them.
You don't think people would be upset if I did that? I wish there were a good forum to do so. Because like you mentioned people could potentially avoid a similar experience.
I agree that you probably should not post the names publicly. But it might be appropriate to email the forum moderator a link to your above story and a link to each of the three postings in question as an "FYI" and leave it up to them as to how they wish to handle it. They might well be interested in hearing that specific companies are abusing the privilege to post free job postings once a month.