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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 axaxs »

toyg wrote: post #202
souprock wrote: post #30

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Somewhat yes. It depends on where you draw the line for "tech cluster", both for the size and for the industry. Austin and the DC area sort of count. No, they aren't the Bay Area, but nothing else is. Specifically for low-level security work, there are a number of competitors both large and small in Melbourne, FL. There is also embedded work related mainly to aerospace.

> there are a number of competitors both large and small in Melbourne, FL And they are all competing for the services of assembler programmers living in Melbourne FL, population 80,000. Wouldn't it be smart to widen that pool? EDIT: obviously you have security constraints, I appreciate that - but most businesses in similar circumstances won't, and still won't consider remote, to then bitch about skill shortages.

I did a lot of research as I just moved here myself. Melbourne is not physically a large city. The county that Melbourne is in has nearly 600K people. If you count people within say, 45 minutes, that number grows to probably over a million as that gets you to Orlando outskirts.

This area has a ton of tech jobs it seems...

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Post by clooless »

znull wrote: post #99
quickthrower2 wrote: post #87

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I would bike to work. It's a nice 12km. But I think it would significantly shorten my life expectancy.

Statistically, it's the other way around.

Depends where. Some routes in NYC are downright suicidal. I was knocked off my bike on one occasion in a roundabout. Injured my knee and swore off cycling to work. There are unfortunately plenty of jerks driving out there.

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Post by MattSayar »

loco5niner wrote: post #114
mkl wrote: post #86

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That avoids much of the exercise (but has its own benefits).

I've heard it makes you more likely to actually bike around since it is easier.

Exactly. eBiking > not biking

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Post by C1sc0cat »

archi42 wrote: post #162
quickthrower2 wrote: post #87

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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…

You could not do 7km each way an actual bicycle ? you need to see a doctor I think.

I am considering a slightly longer bike commute (mostly on bike paths) and I had a kidney transplant 2 years ago

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Post by em-bee »

dfc wrote: post #191
NoNameHaveI wrote: post #174

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You must live in Iowa, where looking a cyclist at worst, warrants a fund because it is "accidental". We have a major bike ride across the state from West to East every year, called RAGBRAI along a different route. And seemingly every year, at least one cyclist is killed. Rarely is anyone charged with a crime. Tragic

What does your first sentence mean? I can't tell if it's a typo or regional phrase I am not familiar with.

i think it means: killing a cyclist is accidental, and warrants a fund only (whatever that is :-)

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Post by ldoughty »

linuxftw wrote: post #231
ldoughty wrote: post #200

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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.

I personally support 3 entry level Linux admins / clouds engineers under me (1 well paid intern, 2 full time)

One was in college, one fresh grad 2-year degree, one with degree and 1 year experience.

But I need someone who's actually better than me to help with weird issues that you simply don't get in school... Like adjusting the DNS resolver process.. or dining out why gnome won't start in a virtual infrastructure (which most people don't even know where to start looking in logs)

So I'm very open to entry level people, but I need another experience person to help

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Post by rheffern »

> Did you receive responses that weren't recruiter-spam from your posts there?

Maybe I've obfuscated my email address well enough, but I don't get any recruiter spam from the listing. Now that I look back on that, it's something of a miracle.

That said, I've only been contacted once per the thread. After one email I was ghosted by the company. Not uncommon really.

I'm not really the niche for HN, I'm mostly a bio/medtech and engineering person. I love the discussions here, but my expertise is on the edges of the Gaussian that is HN.

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Post by ardaozkal »

rheffern wrote: post #248

> Did you receive responses that weren't recruiter-spam from your posts there? Maybe I've obfuscated my email address well enough, but I don't get any recruiter spam from the listing. Now that I look back on that, it's something of a miracle. That said, I've only been contacted once per the thread. After one email I was ghosted by the company. Not uncommon really. I'm not really the niche for HN, I'm mostly a bio/med…

My experiences do not really match: Some CV compiler website has been emailing me ever since I posted on the thread, and the opt out is "If you don't want to hear from me anymore, just let me know".

Except there's no MX record for the website (Image: https://elixi.re/i/oamrerwz.png ), so I can't reply to them asking them to remove my email from their list.

If the person behind those emails is reading this: Please stop, it's annoying and I will not give you my money, even with a discount.

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