LinkedIn, but as a passive agent, many many years ago.
My colleague interviewed and got hired. The hiring manager contacted through all his relevant LinkedIn relations.
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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#62For my previous job I talked to an engineer who was doing recruiting at my university's job fair. A week later I had an interview, and a week after the interview I had an offer.
For my current job the same engineer I talked to (who was now a co-founder at a startup) contacted me over LinkedIn asking about getting lunch. I got lunch with him, and I had an offer later that day.
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#63Front-end developer here. I use exclusively AngelList and HN's "Who is hiring?" (my last 3 jobs came from those places), but that's because of my particular case.
I am Brazilian, no intention to relocate, but I want to find a job at an American company because they pay way better (even more considering the exchange rate of the Brazilian Real vs US Dollar in the last couple of years). So I need to find US companies that hire globally remote. That's a niche. It got larger with the pandemic, but still a niche. This niche is almost all times small, VC-funded startups. From 5 to 20 employees usually, definitely not more than 100 employees. Larger companies, when they hire remote, they hire remote US only, or where they have offices. And VC-funded pays better than non-VC-funded (like bootstrapped companies or agencies).
I find these companies on AngelList and HN's Who is hiring. Definitely not on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc. Even when they do announce a job post on those places, they are among thousands and thousands of job posts of places that would never hire me (or pay what I want). No point in looking for jobs in those places.
Also, I don't have that big of a network in IT. I changed careers five years ago. The few developers with whom I have some connection still all work here in Brazil. So it's always a cold start.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#64Was contacted via recruiter on LinkedIn.
The quality of recruiters seems to be dependent on your history and who you are. I don't tend to get flooded by FAANG recruiters or recruiters at cool companies (well Amazon has reached out to me, but that's just makes me more wary). Most of the recruiters I get tend to be offering more or less the same thing I've been doing the past several years, just with more or less pay and maybe a difference in scenery.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#65Recruiter heard of me from a good referral of a director I had previously worked with
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#66Front-end developer here. I use exclusively AngelList and HN's "Who is hiring?" (my last 3 jobs came from those places), but that's because of my particular case. I am Brazilian, no intention to relocate, but I want to find a job at an American company because they pay way better (even more considering the exchange rate of the Brazilian Real vs US Dollar in the last couple of years). So I need to find US companies th…
Exact same situation here :)
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#67I have applied directly on company websites for my last three jobs (two BigTech cos and a stint in the public sector). Before that, I used recruiters who reached out on LinkedIn, which was honestly a lot easier but didn't get me particularly high compensation.
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#68Not a programmer, but new Physics PhD grad in a mid-sized midwest city.... so exactly 0 job board postings looking for my credentials. Resorted to technique of Guerilla marketing for job hunters: https://www.gm4jh.com/ . Made a list of the top 4 companies that were interesting to me, and started cold-calling. Started a job at the top of the list 2 months later. I did have to take a job for which I was overqualified;…
Why do these websites always look like some sort of self-help cult, why can't they just propose some methodology and sell a book with more details?
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#69Cold-applied on the website (like many other jobs). I got an email response fairly quickly (also like many other jobs). I used their product in my last role and was impressed with it. Very happy now :)
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#70My current job by talking to a friend/pre work college now college again.
But my search strategy changed over time.
1. My network was much smaller 10 years ago and I knew a lot less local companies.
Now I also Google around for companies I would like to work for. Like Google, GitHub, Netflix etc.
I also research what company is doing what I think is good for society like agriculture and automatiosation.
Currently I'm slightly stuck as my company allows remote work a d I want to buy a farm. So I'm not sure if I can jump continents (like USA) to work on bigger agriculture projects or if the farm and remote work will be more of my thing.
I also focus much more on the people I would work with and ask about the team etc.
But I also looked through ALL job postings in my city to get a better feeling what is out there. Probably I read 1000 job postings last time I was searching.
My Tipp: start with one two super unrealistic dream job companies than move to your top choice more realistic companies.
You don't want to get an offer from your 5th choice while still stuck in the hiring process for your dream job.
I would still quit a new job if the Dre job suddenly comes up.