I did, for a Frontend role. Was fun, but now I'm seeking UX design roles and they're a bit rarer here! All good :)
Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
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#22I landed 3 jobs from here starting from 2014
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#23I got my current job by posting on a "Who wants to be hired" thread in 2019.
To be fair, though, I was only contacted by that one company (and like 2-3 spam emails) so I wouldn't really count on HN as my main strategy.
On the other hand, I'm Mexican and HN is very Silicon Valley centric, so maybe people from the Bay Area get more replies?
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#24I got hired off of a HN thread a few years back. Worked on an open source message queue in Go for a year or so before lay offs hit. Overall, I’d do it again, HN is a solid culture fit litmus test apparently.
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#25Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
Once back in 2012
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#26Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
I got my first real tech job back in 2012 this way (thanks, mek and stephen). When that company went under I got my second real tech job this way, too (thanks marek and marc and rene).
If I ever want to find a job outside my network my first stop will be the whoishiring post. Thanks, HN.
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#27Never even heard from anyone on those posts. Stopped posting.
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#28HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wants to be hired and ask people to apply who look like a fit too though.
It looks like ipinfo works in a fascinating problem space. I see that you had a few “Who is Hiring” posts earlier this year, but none in the May or June threads. Do you have a sense of whether you’ll be looking for more engineers in the near future?
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#29Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
I got my job in 2019 from a who’s hiring post
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#30Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
I got a few good freelancing clients off the “seeking freelancer” thread back when I was contracting. The last one ended up being $100 / hour for a long term gig lasting over a year, which was great money for me at the time.