Yes, I was hired of such a thread.
Still working for the same employer.
Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
One simple trick: I bike to work. Remote-only companies hate me!
I would bike to work. It's a nice 12km. But I think it would significantly shorten my life expectancy.
If it is not too hot, or too cold, or rainy, I take my 25km/h EU-regulated e-bike for my 7km trip to work (40% public road /w bike lane, 30% public road /wo bike lane, 30% forest road; 110m altitude to climb one way, 140m the other).
I've average height&weight, but am not athletic - no chance I could do that route on a normal bike. So while it's not a huge workout, the bike doesn't go all by itself, and I really feel it has a positive effect on my overall health.
The additional 5km wouldn't make a huge difference with an e-bike (just 12m longer ride), as long as the altitude you have to climb isn't significantly more (you can check that on Google Maps).
Maybe you can rent a (proper!) e-bike from a specialist dealer and give it a try.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#163My view on these 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Who's Hiring?' threads... 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. As such the hiring threads are mostly jobs in that discipline. I'm an oddball on Hacker News, I have a keen interest in all tech development, but my official skill set is Windows Server Applications based Architecture[1], and Identity & Access Manageme…
Based on your skill set, we'd hire you immediately (we're a listed, 3000+ employee company). I work in the Berlin office, but we do have offices in every world region. The other comment here is BS. People who work with Windows Server, AD and .NET are sorely needed. Even more so in Europe, where an enterprise world exists that HN people apparently never heard of (see your 'oddball' statement). The real problem here is…
While I am not applying / not eligible for the post but this is so refreshing to see:
> We don't save the world. We don't stop climate change. We don't use AI to be the next Uber of X. We need somewhat skilled devs working on (what HN would consider) boring problems, to help tens of thousands of companies/IT people get other boring shit done quickly.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
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This approach doesn't prevent your email address from being clogged with recruiter spam, unless you want to maintain filters forever, and as another says, the real email is still there. I don't even use the same domain as my real email. Jumping in exposes one to a subset of misbehaving recruiters, those making a bad name for the rest, an experience comparable to taking a bath in shit and I don't want to taint my dail…
A throwaway GMAIL address and using +XYZ would be a reasonable solution. You could set up a rule to forward everything to your main email, but then as you get spam on certain addresses, adapt the rule to not forward email sent to those.
Yes this would also work.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
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Statistically, it's the other way around.
Greatly depends on the drivers around you. Here it'll definitely shorten your life expectancy if you're lucky, and will leave you with a nice whole-body paralysis, if you're not. You know how motorists sarcastically refer to cyclists over here? "Crunchies", or something like that.
I don't have to drive on the road.
My work trip is 5 km and all the way is bike roads and pedestrian paths. One of the advantages of living in the nordics, I suppose.
I don't even wear a helmet in the summer - I just pedal intentionally slow.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
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It means starting/buying a veterinary practice or owning a stake in a clinic (mostly just bigger practices). It's not really an investment because the value of the stake/practice tanks as soon as you stop working and at best you can sell "your job" to someone else. And yes, I am legally qualified to start a practice and render virtually any treatment services I want. But I would suck. That's why you need more experie…
The path my mother followed (as a doctor for humans) was to approach an existing physician about joining that physician's practice. She joined, the patients got used to her, and she bought out the practice when the other doctor retired a couple years later. This was the first thing she did after leaving medical school, but obviously there were a couple years in there of being the junior physician in the practice, whi…
Which in the veterinary field means very low paying entry level jobs.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#167My view on these 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Who's Hiring?' threads... 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. As such the hiring threads are mostly jobs in that discipline. I'm an oddball on Hacker News, I have a keen interest in all tech development, but my official skill set is Windows Server Applications based Architecture[1], and Identity & Access Manageme…
Based on your skill set, we'd hire you immediately (we're a listed, 3000+ employee company). I work in the Berlin office, but we do have offices in every world region. The other comment here is BS. People who work with Windows Server, AD and .NET are sorely needed. Even more so in Europe, where an enterprise world exists that HN people apparently never heard of (see your 'oddball' statement). The real problem here is…
From Windows Based Application Architecture and AD Identity Management asking for C# and SQL Server optimization (DBA work) it's a huge leap of faith. I see it often, 3 different jobs in a single person is the employer's dream.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#168Related: Does anybody have a job or job ideas for me? I finished my veterinary degree in Germany (very late, but I finished) and I am a proficient coder, mostly web development in Django, but I also have a passion for Data Science (in Python and R) and Machine Learning. The veterinary degree here means I have a broad understanding of biology, medicine and food safety. I also did a bit of bioinformatics. People often…
We are hiring at the moment, have a look here: https://www.redheads.de/joomla/index.php/?option=com_jobs&vi...
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#169I have, for three fulltime remote jobs so far. Also got an offer for another FT position, but that was from a comment somebody left in some other thread, not in Who's Hiring.
I'm from Europe and these jobs were all in the US. It's doable, you just have to be a reasonably strong candidate.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on your skill set, we'd hire you immediately (we're a listed, 3000+ employee company). I work in the Berlin office, but we do have offices in every world region. The other comment here is BS. People who work with Windows Server, AD and .NET are sorely needed. Even more so in Europe, where an enterprise world exists that HN people apparently never heard of (see your 'oddball' statement). The real problem here is…
From Windows Based Application Architecture and AD Identity Management asking for C# and SQL Server optimization (DBA work) it's a huge leap of faith. I see it often, 3 different jobs in a single person is the employer's dream.
Of course we don't require everyone to do all of these or even be the best at the majority of them. If your focus is on TSQL, then your dev focus will be schema design and query optimization. You still need to know how to build the software and fix some smaller problems which are blocking or impacting your work, thus the C# requirement. In that case, you'd rarely touch AD interfaces. Works the same for any other focus area. It's just that we can't put people in a dev position for this who are only AD admins. Hiring discussions are very transparent and everything happens together. We ask real question from our product dev problem set and let people work on real code if they want. At least in Berlin, other locations might vary.