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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
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#182I 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 cl…
What do you say to the recruiter when you got his email from someone else?
I said something in the lines of "Hi, gave me your email" then 2 lines about what I'm looking for and 2 lines about my previous/relevant experience.
Recruiters are always very eager to talk to any lead, so nothing crazy has to get into this email except "I'm an engineer and I want to talk to you"
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#183I 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/L…
First mention I see of hired. Used it while I was looking for jobs in London - definitely something I can recommend to get your foot in the door, especially for people who need visa sponsorship (at least that was my scenario)
Yeah, it was decent. My experience was that it provided a lot of leads in a short amount of time. In a matter of a week, my plate was completely full, doing phone screens, take-home problems, and on-sites. Got several offers from some pretty cool startups at the end of it, and it was nice to have salary expectations up front.
I would say that I completely underestimated the amount of time required for it. It skews more towards startups, and it seems like take-home problems have become the norm in their application processes now. If you're going to take this route, I would recommend taking 2 weeks PTO from your day job to dedicate to this.
For my last job change, I took a much more passive approach. Over a period of a couple of months, I engaged with a couple of recruiters who reached out to me, only interviewing at 2 companies, and then took this job. Far more relaxing and less pressure. The only downside is that I felt like I had less negotiating power at the end.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Mostly interested in infra, specially data infra. My email is in my bio, would love to chat more over email.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#185My current job at Amazon: Took two online coding tests, didn't talk to a single person and got an offer a couple days after the second test. Efficient.
How did they know you were behind the keyboard during the test? Just curious... seems like a huge risk for a company to hire people like that.
They hire an online company to install tracking software while you take the test, there's also someone watching you through your webcam. Bit creepy to be honest.
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#186Jumped ship to a consulting company that my boss wanted to hire.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#187Last 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!
I applied for the REACH apprenticeship and my application is being reviewed. Thinking I'll hear back sometime this week on whether I'll get an onsite interview. Just wondering if you knew about this program and if it was something that current LinkedIn team members can refer/recommend people for? If so feel free to message me but otherwise no worries!
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#188I'm a freelancer. Literally every job I've gotten has come from "luck". The trick has been increasing my "luck surface area" by putting myself out there. How I got each of my current clients: Person in my college class gets a job and two years later contacts the computer science department at my college and asks if they "know any freelancers." I had made it known to my professors that I was going into freelancing and…
I don't really call it luck anymore. It's a lot easier to get clients than a full time job. You just have to invest in leads and it pays off about 2-3 years later.
I find it a lot of fun, something like hunting or foraging. There's no guarantee of putting food on the table, and yet you go out there and it's out there. There's also a kind of primal thrill in it, as opposed to full time jobs.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#189Last 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!
Haha, one startup I joined died for this reason too. The main investor had second thoughts and decided not to invest when they agreed to earlier.
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#190For my day job , I took a bit of a windy road before finding it. First I decided to study in Korea the summer after my first year of university, and ended up never leaving. I studied Korean in a university language center for a year before transferring to a Korean university where I happened upon a summer internship at my eventual future employer (Engineering & Construction) on the exclusive student job/intern messag…
How many hours do you work in an average week?
Tbh I'm never not working these days, but to get specific I'm in the office (or traveling) for my day job Monday~Fridat from about 7~7. My work with Cent is done in my free waking hours 7 days a week, but it's kind of unfair to call that work since it doesn't feel like it.
This may seem like a lot (at least it kind of felt like a lot as I was writing it), but I am well rested, excercise every evening with my wife, read a lot, meet friends, blog daily, feel like I can do more and am just having a great time being alive.