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

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Post by jypepin »

I went to DevBootcamp in Q4 2012. We had a job fair at the end of the program and got a job at Exec (YC 2012) from it.

A year later Exec got acquired and I started looking for another job. My roommate had failed an interview with Uber a few months earlier and gave me the recruiter's email. I sent an email, interviewed and got the job.

I've just started my own design/engineering studio with my fiancée - most of our clients have been our network so far. Either people we've directly worked with, or a referral from them.

So I think for me, it has always been about the network. That should be a pretty good news for anyone, because my network has never been very large (except maybe now that I cumulate experience both in YC companies and Uber).

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

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Post by jypepin »

itwy wrote: post #144
dejv wrote: post #125

I had a product management job and was thinking about getting back to programming fulltime. One day I went on job site and there was ad that reads "Looking for programmer" no body, nothing. I replied just for fun, went for interview and took it as a freelance gig which let me quit my previous job, work on my own various projects and travel the world for couple of years. It was ERP programming for construction company…

"couple of hours each month" ... "make it pays all of the bills for my 4 person familly". So you are charging $250/hr and living in Zimbabwe?

if he's been consulting with the same company for 11 years, he must have a very deep knowledge of how everything works and be very productive. I wouldn't be surprised that he just has a retainer kind of deal with this company for maintenance, which could be a few 000s a month and for him only take a couple hours, but would be a lot of trouble for the client to find someone else.

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

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Post by Finch2192 »

eaandkw wrote: post #127
throwaway3314 wrote: post #115

Throwaway for obvious reasons. I was set to go into academia. I spent my entire grad school without any tech internships, and did research every summer. Months before my graduation, my ex-wife wanted a divorce, and one reason (out of many) was not seeing a future together as I will be in remote places(where most universities are), and she want to be in a big city. Trying to save my marriage, I declined my postdoc off…

Being in the military I have moved a lot. Like thirteen times in twenty years. Some of the best places I have been were places that I originally did not want to go to. I'm happy everything worked out but it seems like a missed opportunity for the both of you to learn and grow.

I want to move 13 times in 20 years. What jobs in the military let me do that?

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

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Post by HHalvi »

I was in the final year of college and having tried a couple of startups I wanted to get a remote job. The naive thought was "gee, someone is gonna give me a product role remotely" and let me see how many folks want to hire me. Applied at every known startup in SV world and remotejob sites and gave up on the hope for getting a product role but remote working still was a first love of sorts. I started appliying for customer support positions at various places again only to never hear back from them. Posted once on Who wants to be hired on HN as well and that did not go anywhere. And out of the blue a friend of mine whom I had sort of worked with in the past told me about a Product role in Bangalore. I had given up hope on Product Roles, Remote jobs since I was sitting on 70+ rejection mails. I decided to take it and that was nearly 3 months back. TL:DR ? a bit of network and luck(ing out and in ?)

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

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Post by jypepin »

lioeters wrote: post #118

About five years ago, I released a tiny open-source project (my first one) of about 10 lines. I kept building on it, for personal use and for the fun of it. Eventually it got to be quite full-featured and attracted a sizeable user base. Since then, all my client work comes from businesses that use it. So, by sheer luck I'd found some kind of product-market fit, with no marketing. It's an on-going story though, I'd li…

mind sharing the project? :)

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

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Post by joeax »

duxup wrote: post #5
joeax wrote: post #4

A recruiter who I worked with in the past called me. This is why I tell recruiters who will listen to maintain relationships and not approach each match-hire as a one-and-done proposition. I can't count the times that a recruiter ghosts me after I turn them down.

As someone looking for work, the super enthusiastic recruiter who gets all excited, sometimes I even meet them at their office and......ghosted..... is a super frustrating thing. (I keep wondering if someone committed a terrible crime in my name and nobody is telling me.) There was some article floating around LinkedIn about how frustrating it is for recruiters when someone ghosts them... that had to be some sort of…

It works both ways I suppose. Regardless it's a bit unprofessional from either side.

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

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Post by noddingham »

I went to a conference put on by a vendor of products I supported at my then current employer. I had met people over the years at this conference and was at the dinner table with some folks and someone said "hey, aren't you looking for new opportunities?" and introduced me to the person who would become my new boss.
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