~10 years ago I was living in Iran and was hired as a contractor in a US company.I was being paid using Bitcoins (due to sanctions).
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#32In 2018 I was hired as full-timer number 13 from an HN thread. I stayed there for 4 years.
The company was 90-some people when I left. We posted in the HN threads every month, but as far as I know, I was the only one hired from HN. One time I asked someone from HR about it, and they told me that we only got a very small number of responses from the HN threads, but that they were generally high-quality candidates, and that it just never worked out. In at least one of the cases we tried to hire the person, but he ended up ghosting us (I remember that one because I interviewed him... and now often notice his username in the comments).
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#33I got hired from there about a year ago
I got hired from there about a year ago as well.
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#34I was, in 2015. And now I'm at a startup with some people I worked with there.
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#35I got hired after reaching out to a company (the known as Dopamine Labs) that hit the top page, but it wasn’t one of the monthly threads - one of the founders popped into the discussion with “AMA” so I asked if they were hiring. Took a couple months (December, you know how it goes) but that was a great gig.
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#36I used to post every month for my previous company. The candidates we would get were always junior and low quality: this was likely due to our description and target market. I don’t recall hiring from one of those posts. We did however hire quite a few terrific engineers from workatastartup.
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#37I got a consulting gig a few years ago, which is what I wanted.
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#38Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
I reached out to about 5 companies between January and February on "Who is hiring?" and landed a job through that. Great company.
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#39not specifically from a hiring post, but i was hired in 2020. however, it was about a year after a prototype project of mine made it to the front page here.
had some other legit/promising inquiries and interviews prior and after this as well.
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#40HN 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.
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