Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

That's been studied. The phrase "the strength of the weak tie" is one I have heard in relation to this phenomenon. People you don't know that well tend to be better leads than your closest friends.

I was presenting at a conference, the CIO came to me after the presentation and we chatted about her company. She ended up offering a great position.

Funny that I have never heard of this huge company (and uber cool), some of the great ones are just not visible to outsiders.

10 years later I still love it.

Moved to Saigon from the Bay Area about 2 years ago. Was unemployed at the time (I mostly do tech consulting) and sitting in the newly opened cafe in my apartment building. A guy sits down next to me and is reading a book about bitcoin. He just moved into the building a couple days before. We start talking and he tells me he is mining, invites me to come help install the next shipment arriving that weekend. I go with him to the data center located about an hour outside Saigon, which turns out to be in a super secure Vietnamese military telco building and install 150 new machines. Had a blast doing the install and I got a job offer to become CTO to help run the operation. 8 months later, the whole operation moves to Canada and I'm out of a job again (long story). Telling the story to a friend of mine, he offers me a job working for another large crypto company that he recently joined, to do an even larger mining operation. So here I am... working on that now.

Needless to say, I'm a huge believer in serendipity.

I work at a large, well-known Silicon Valley company. I interned at the company while I was in college, but decided to work elsewhere after I graduated. After a few years, one of their recruiters reached out to me via email, went through the normal interview process, and ended up with the job.

Past jobs/internships have been a mixture of applying directly on college job boards, recruiters reaching out through email/LinkedIn, and Hired.

Coworker approached me during lunch and pitched me the startup he was about to co-found. He told me I am the most talented but the most undervalued engineer there. He shows me the slide deck and says: “Help me build this. We will get the funding. And the job is yours.” That was 4 yrs ago and I am glad I said yes. To be honest, this was burning the candle at both ends. I slept on the floor of the cowork space conference room to make this happen.