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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 geekbird »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #245
archi42 wrote: post #162

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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

I think the biggest risk is not the ride, but the vehicles on the roadway. Way back when I used to ride 6.6 miles from home to the university, but stopped after the second time I got run off the road. The bus was slower, but safer.

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Post by geekbird »

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

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>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…

When in comes to the hiring threads, I seldom see Linux sysadmin jobs. Everyone wants a Pyton/GoLang/Java developer. I do most of my coding in Bash and Ruby (Puppet), and write json or yaml config files. It seems that a lot of the people looking for "DevOps" are looking for developers who can use Jenkins and Docker, not serious operations people who can work with dev in the same team to make a high availability and performant product.

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

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Post by geekbird »

ldoughty wrote: post #247
linuxftw wrote: post #231

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> 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 (…

I've found that you seldom get any deep level Linux admin training in schools. They all teach fundamentals, the seven layer cake^W OSI model, how http works, stuff like that. If you're lucky, they cover /var/log/messages, a few basic commands, then dive deep into stack traces or something else programmer-centric. Then again, I'm mostly self taught and have 10+ years experience. BTW, debugging Docker just sucks. I'm looking for better tools for that.

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

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Post by geekbird »

s3cur3 wrote: post #69
cylentwolf wrote: post #60

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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 re…

I am the person who ends up cleaning up after hipster coders, or as I call them "ninja cowboys". They move on to their next high-profile, resume-building gig, and I take their sloppy proof-of-concept that got crammed into production and make it stable. I tend to view $hot_new_stack with a jaundiced eye because of that.

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Post by tk75x »

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.

maybe fund = fine

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

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Post by geekbird »

souprock wrote: post #77
kranner wrote: post #57

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> I happen to like the side-effect on work-life balance. There's no problem with work-life balance while working remote. You can even have better work-life balance as you don't need to take half a day off from work to attend to a 10-minute chore that can't be rescheduled. It needs maturity and trust on the part of the employers and the employees. You're almost boasting about calling a bug a feature.

I think I see the problem: "half a day" Depending on what you mean by "a day", each commute direction is 2 to 3 hours. (or I suppose 6) You have a very long distance, or severe traffic, or something else unusual. It sounds like you would be driving over the mountains to reach a place like LA or SF. I've been a software developer at 5 different work locations in 2 different states, but I have never commuted more than…

Yes, for me at my current job it would be half a day - an hour plus each way for a ten minute "bankers hours" task.

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

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Post by techslave »

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…

> 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack.

uh, how could you know that?

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

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Post by andrew_ »

andrew_ wrote: post #7

Several interviews with very few solid (or high quality) experiences. It's becoming a bit of a dumping ground for recruiters running out of ideas. Especially frustrating are the folks that don't seem to understand what "remote" means.

Case in point: I had scheduled a call yesterday with BibliU (who posted in the June Who's Hiring) for today, and their person was a no-show to the call. No email, no phone call, just a no-show to the video call. That could have been for any number of reasons, but the lack of communication on behalf of the companies posting in the Who's Hiring threads now has increased significantly.

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

techslave wrote: post #258
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…

> 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. uh, how could you know that?

I’m a web developer doing a lot of c#, some sql a bit of python and Kubernetes. So it’s also hard to box people.
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