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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 linuxftw »

ldoughty wrote: post #200
duxup wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

We get TONS of people that apply to our jobs with shotgun strategy... Really annoying looking for an experienced Linux admin and we have to review a fresh college grad with no Linux or Mac experience and one year of java programming. HR policies require us to be fair to all applicants, so our panel had to spend 15 minutes recovering the application and highlighting why they do not meet 9 of the 10 required qualificat…

> Really annoying looking for an experienced Linux admin and we have to review a fresh college grad with no Linux or Mac experience and one year of java programming.

It's not your fault, but the industry has relatively few entry-level positions, especially for the bottom 75% of graduates.

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

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Post by samelawrence »

epage wrote: post #220
jader201 wrote: post #75

I started the "Who wants to be hired?" threads over 5 years ago [1] after dang giving his blessing on it [2], and was super excited that it led to the job [3] that I still happily hold today. I really wish these threads were more active -- and received more upvotes -- relative to the "Who's hiring" threads, as it seems like the signal to noise is so much better, and also seems like the success rate would be quite a b…

I've thought about it and my concern with using the thread if I were job hunting is that if a coworker saw me on it, it might come out that I'm looking elsewhere when I'm not wanting that out yet. The Who's Hiring Thread would help me keep my search more private.

I think this is the major reason for the difference in volume of posts between the two threads.

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

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Post by ThirdFoundation »

sabman83 wrote: post #58

I have hired an excellent junior engineer from one of those threads.

Would you mind giving some information about what makes a junior engineer stick out in those threads? I'm currently looking for that type of work and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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

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Post by Aromasin »

Graham24 wrote: post #211
Aromasin wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

South of England. The town is also known as the worst place for cycle commutes outside London, which probably will single it out. We've probably got about 2k people across design, HR, head office and the factory floor, but of that I don't see more than maybe 50 people cycle, and of that only 20 or so regulars (mainly because it's just too dangerous). I bet you can imagine how fun that is with everyone trying to get o…

Pompey?

I won't say where exactly, but it's not there!

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

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Post by dbancajas »

souprock wrote: post #4

I've tried to find people that way, but usually there is nobody. Let's see, searching for "assembly" and "assembler" and "embedded"... 1. I already asked. He wants Rust and probably won't leave Albuquerque. Bummer. He'd be perfect. 2. Argentina... nope. 3. Barcelona... nope. 4. One might work. I probably already asked, but don't remember. 5. Remote only... nope. 6. Lisbon... nope. 7. Paris... nope. 8. I already asked…

> -no. That doesn't mean we don't offer WFH (in fact, I'm working from home 3 out of 5 days a week), but remote only is not an option. I think the maximum WFH days per week for other people is around 2.

Souprock! you still have austin office right? not looking for work right now but is the sec clearance still a requirement?

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

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Post by neilv »

I tried it last month, since I'm averse to LinkedIn and similar resume sites. One of the responses was spam from a startup that scraped&NLP'd from the montly HN post, to generate resumes for people on their own resume site. Their spam seemed to imply that I already had a generated resume presence on their site, and I should create an account so that I can edit/correct it. (Which is some of the sketchy resume site behavior I was trying to avoid by trying HN instead.)

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

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Post by duxup »

ldoughty wrote: post #200
duxup wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

We get TONS of people that apply to our jobs with shotgun strategy... Really annoying looking for an experienced Linux admin and we have to review a fresh college grad with no Linux or Mac experience and one year of java programming. HR policies require us to be fair to all applicants, so our panel had to spend 15 minutes recovering the application and highlighting why they do not meet 9 of the 10 required qualificat…

It's funny how that works.

People get people who aren't right for the job applying.

Recruiters out there gathering up people not qualified.

throws up hands

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

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Post by rheffern »

Jaruzel wrote: post #144

My 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…

I feel the same way.

My skills are deep in engineering/physics/biotech, but aren't really in Web-Dev. As such, I've only ever had one person reach out to me via the 'Who want to be hired?' thread in the last two years, and they just ghosted me after one email.

Granted, I'm not really the 'type' for HN and the roles posted in the 'Who's hiring?' threads aren't really in my wheelhouse. But the companies are good to look through and then contact for other roles. I've applied to companies through them, but the results have been a mixed bag for me. Things like insane HW assignments that I submit, only to be ghosted.

I love the discussions on algos, programming/comp-sci, and EE, as such things are directly relevant to my work and career. There really isn't anywhere else on the web that has the userbase that HN has, despite me being only tangentally related to the core users here. That said, you find a lot of people here that are really super smart in some tiny niche too (like actual rocket science, oil painting, 12th century Indian hymns, etc) and I love reading that stuff and learning about some tiny little bit of the universe that ends up being facinating.

I'd love to see a HN type site that was more biotech focused.

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