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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by donkeyd »

Was approached by a recruiter for an interesting position. They sent me the job description and I had a sort of pre-selection interview. Then another recruiter was supposed to call me for another interview, but after making two or three appointments, they never called.

After doing a Google search for the job description, I found the actual company that the recruiter contacted me about. I waited a couple of weeks and then directly approached the owner of the company. I got an invitation for the next week, had two interviews on the same evening and got an offer the next day.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by donkeyd »

buzer wrote: post #18

inurl:careers Helsinki devops Also tried couple of the variations (inurl:jobs, Espoo, sre, Linux). This helped to find companies which didn't post their jobs on the usual job boards (mostly startups at the time).

That's a pretty good tip actually, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by h4b4n3r0 »

xaranke wrote: post #51
sadamznintern wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could pass a Facebook interview I could finally be happy. I envy you.

As someone who works at Amazon and has been rejected by Facebook, don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision. There's a lot more to life, and you deserve to be happy regardless of whatever else happens.

>> don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision

This is easier for senior folks. At some point you just know the rejection was a failure of their interview process and not your ineptitude. I have failed several interviews at different companies where I was one of the best people _in the world_ for the job due to my domain expertise. It's a roll of the dice for everyone, but earlier in my career I did not take rejection well. Now? Honeybadger don't care.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by sadamznintern »

xaranke wrote: post #51
sadamznintern wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could pass a Facebook interview I could finally be happy. I envy you.

As someone who works at Amazon and has been rejected by Facebook, don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision. There's a lot more to life, and you deserve to be happy regardless of whatever else happens.

I failed a FB loop a few weeks ago despite studying really fucking hard and doing pretty damn well on the questions I got.

I’m afraid I’ll be stuck at Amazon, which nobody is actually impressed by, if I’m lucky and not PIPed out.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by sadamznintern »

h4b4n3r0 wrote: post #65
xaranke wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who works at Amazon and has been rejected by Facebook, don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision. There's a lot more to life, and you deserve to be happy regardless of whatever else happens.

>> don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision This is easier for senior folks. At some point you just know the rejection was a failure of their interview process and not your ineptitude. I have failed several interviews at different companies where I was one of the best people _in the world_ for the job due to my domain expertise. It's a roll of the dice for everyone, but earlier in my…

I’m not there. I think I’m not the smartest guy around but I want to achieve my dreams and achieve upward class mobility. But today I’m stuck.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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Post by sadamznintern »

xaranke wrote: post #52
sadamznintern wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, except I had an extra phone screen because I fucked up the logic portion (guess I'm dumb). Still got the job, and then finished the internship, then got a return offer.

Don't beat yourself up about it, you made it in the end.

Is Amazon “making it”?
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