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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by wilkystyle »

Peretus wrote: post #18

Absolutely. I posted a message on a 'Who wants to be Hired' thread and was contacted about a month later by a lead developer who was hiring for a fully remote front-end developer position. After a few video chats and a 2-hour take-home coding exercise they extended an offer that I accepted. I've been there for about 10 months and it's been a wonderful experience. Working remotely has literally changed my life, and th…

Not related to the original topic, but shout-out to working remote. It's been a game-changer for me, too. There are too many benefits to list, but the biggest one for me has been physical; after trying for years to stick with working out, it finally clicked for me with remote work + a gym in my garage.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by davidjnelson »

wilkystyle wrote: post #61
Peretus wrote: post #18

Absolutely. I posted a message on a 'Who wants to be Hired' thread and was contacted about a month later by a lead developer who was hiring for a fully remote front-end developer position. After a few video chats and a 2-hour take-home coding exercise they extended an offer that I accepted. I've been there for about 10 months and it's been a wonderful experience. Working remotely has literally changed my life, and th…

Not related to the original topic, but shout-out to working remote. It's been a game-changer for me, too. There are too many benefits to list, but the biggest one for me has been physical; after trying for years to stick with working out, it finally clicked for me with remote work + a gym in my garage.

It’s so good for your health to replace commuting with exercise!!

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by paulcole »

davidjnelson wrote: post #62
wilkystyle wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not related to the original topic, but shout-out to working remote. It's been a game-changer for me, too. There are too many benefits to list, but the biggest one for me has been physical; after trying for years to stick with working out, it finally clicked for me with remote work + a gym in my garage.

It’s so good for your health to replace commuting with exercise!!

One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by duxup »

Uptrenda wrote: post #59

I tried out the last thread not expecting much to come from it and some surprisingly well-matched opportunities came my way. In fact, someone contacted me just yesterday from the same thread and that was over a month ago now! What seems to happen with hiring is good companies very quickly get overwhelmed by bad applicants. Consequently, they have to instate barriers to try filter out the hundreds of unqualified peopl…

>If you've already been in the industry a while you'll probably suffer from the same problem: A hell of a lot of low quality recruiter spam; Bad companies wasting your time with sub-minimum wage offers, and so on. Sometimes you just need 10 minutes to speak to a real person and you can both tell straight away if it's a good fit or not.

As a noob I would just like to say...it isn't limited to experienced professionals.

As soon as I landed my first job my email and linkedin caught fire. Non stop spam, bad matches, and etc.

"I was looking at your resume..."

No way you were looking at my resume and came up with this job... kinda stuff.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by dubb20 »

wilkystyle wrote: post #61
Peretus wrote: post #18

Absolutely. I posted a message on a 'Who wants to be Hired' thread and was contacted about a month later by a lead developer who was hiring for a fully remote front-end developer position. After a few video chats and a 2-hour take-home coding exercise they extended an offer that I accepted. I've been there for about 10 months and it's been a wonderful experience. Working remotely has literally changed my life, and th…

Not related to the original topic, but shout-out to working remote. It's been a game-changer for me, too. There are too many benefits to list, but the biggest one for me has been physical; after trying for years to stick with working out, it finally clicked for me with remote work + a gym in my garage.

I have been working out since 2011, and I have been working 90% remotely since 2016, I even edited my linked in to say Work From Home so anybody who intends to write to me knows in advance, I still visit the office rarely - when some big manager comes over, or to collect some documents.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by davidjnelson »

paulcole wrote: post #63
davidjnelson wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s so good for your health to replace commuting with exercise!!

One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!

Sounds like you have a really short commute! That’s a great way to do it.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by s3cur3 »

cylentwolf wrote: post #60
s3cur3 wrote: post #55

I hired someone from one of these threads a few months ago. I chose them over other candidates based on a strong “portfolio” web site, showing me the person understood their code existed to serve business values (not the other way around).

So the HN candidate had a website that a business was based on? Or the candidate just had a good "fake" website that has a lot of good business code in it?

No, rather they had a good “I’m a freelance developer” web site that showed two things:

1) Some amount of professional experience in the technology we were looking for a contractor in.

2) An attitude that boiled down to “I write software to fulfill business objectives.” (The opposite attitude is what I characterize as the “hipster coder,” who says “I couldn’t possibly work on your legacy system unless you agree to rewrite it from scratch in $hot_new_stack.” Yes, I have literally had a contractor tell me that before, about a webapp based on a 5 year old front-end framework.)

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

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Post by Frost1x »

paulcole wrote: post #63
davidjnelson wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s so good for your health to replace commuting with exercise!!

One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!

This idea always appealed to me in theory but I sweat so easily that it never made sense unless I want to show up covered in sweat and feel sticky all day. Maybe if there's a locker/shower I can use and go directly to work and shower there it could work for me.
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