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Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#41

I've gotten several very good clients from the freelancer/seeking freelancer threads.

Could you link me? Thinking of posting myself.

Sure, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152013

I wish they promoted it more; cross links from the hiring and want to be hired would be good.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#43

not 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.

Was this the one?

uPlot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23045207

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#44
I got hired to be an analyst for a MLB baseball team off of a HN post like 7 years ago. Because of HN I have 2 world series rings! Life is very strange but I'll forever be grateful for that Who's Hiring post.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#46
post #43

not 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.

Was this the one? uPlot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23045207

that was a follow-up. the first one was in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207132

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#47

HN 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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I’m not sure why you think I’m lying, or why it’s so unbelievable that we’ve hired at least 10 engineers from HN? It’s true, and fairly easy to verify too.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#49

HN 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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Whoa - please don't cross into personal attack on HN! That's definitely not what this site is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I think your actual complaint is that coderholic's posts mostly (if not entirely) are about his company. It's true that good community members post about things that interest them generally, rather than using HN just for promotion (this is in the site guidelines: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity"). But it's also true that people sometimes end up posting like that because their startup is the main thing they have something to say about, and it's not some sort of nefarious intentional plan. Either way, the best way to get your point across is to be gentle and respectful. If you come out with guns blazing, not many people are going to react well to that!

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

#50
I did about a month ago from last month’s post. I was in finance before and had a few offers from finance companies, but I had an offer that stemmed from last month’s post in a totally different field that seemed better. Very happy with it.
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