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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#172Last startup I joined died. A tip - when a founder tells you they raised money, make sure they have actually "received" the money and that the fund they raised from hasn't gone insolvent :) Luckily an ex colleague referred me and it has been an amazing journey at LinkedIn. BTW We are hiring!
Curious to know what are you hiring for?
Hey mate. We are hiring for several teams around different parts of the Li stack. Our teams are (loosely) broken around infra, apps/product, tooling and UI on the engineering side. There are other ways to slice this categorisation too.
What areas would you be interested in? Happy to chat offline.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#173Don't follow luck or what ends up coming on your path.
Ask yourself what is the most important problem you should be solving, and find companies that do that. Then prepare the hell out to be relevant in that field (follow MOOCs, read books, prepare for interviews, ...). Take a year if needed. And finally, apply.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#174Last startup I joined died. A tip - when a founder tells you they raised money, make sure they have actually "received" the money and that the fund they raised from hasn't gone insolvent :) Luckily an ex colleague referred me and it has been an amazing journey at LinkedIn. BTW We are hiring!
Msg me, I’m looking!
Cool. Just emailed you.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#175A contact forwarded my resume to an IT manager at my employer.
I interviewed and was accepted for a temporary position.
They hired me full time after a few years.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#176Got a contract job with a unicorn through one of the giant domestic body shops. Converted to permanent status after 3-4 months. I don’t think I would have been hired through the front door.
> Converted to permanent status after 3-4 months. How did that work? Most of the body shops I've worked with have clauses in their contracts specifically forbidding their clients from poaching their contractors for a period of time after termination (1-2 years).
I believe there was a buy-out provision but I’m not privy to the details. It was undoubtedly an expensive way to hire.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#177I 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?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#178I kept getting calls from recruiters. After 3 recruiters called me about the same position at this super large company I gave the interview a shot. As a senior JavaScript developer with open source projects and military leadership experience I don't really have to look for jobs. I put my resume up on places like Monster or another job site. It takes about 2 two weeks for the resume to be populated to various other pl…
> military leadership experience Do you have a security clearance?
The only time this has come up for me is when I was consultant from a design agency to a major airline. The airline required I achieve a FAA security clearance before I could enter their office. Normally the process takes about 2 weeks to complete, but for me it was completed in little more than an hour.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#179Earlier 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.
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.
You've posted about this numerous times before. The first, extensive discussion may have had some intellectual curiosity, but at this point it's becoming repetitive and tedious. Please don't keep bringing it up.
Edit: actually, I've banned this account because repeating this turns out to be all it's been doing. Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed here, and when you repeat something as much as this one has, it's indistinguishable from trolling (which is why some users have been wondering if it's a troll account). Please don't use HN this way again.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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.
Thats exactly the case