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Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by ownagefool »

fisherjeff wrote: post #12

Sample size of one, obviously, but back when I was in a position to hire I absolutely checked those threads each month and reached out to people that seemed like good matches. Never got any responses that I can recall, though…

I'll double the sample size. I've both posted a few times and replied to ads.

The people were mostly nice, but they tended to want very specific niche skillets, had a fair amount of hoops to jump through for sucky comp and no equity.

There was one exception but they hit me with several "2 hour" take home tests and I tapped out because there's easier money even in this market.

I suspect the story is a bit better for the US cohort, but comp wise if you can get into FAANG you probably should.

( I turned down FAANG for CTO of a UK startup in 2020, and despite stellar performance, I became much poorer whilst the owner became a paper billionaire, so part of the problem might be I'm just not interested in wooly promises that can be revised )

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by Bootvis »

nullcipher wrote: post #61
Bootvis wrote: post #60

I was offered a job in Munich I think in 2014. Unfortunately, the Cost of Living increase to be expected from living in Munich didn't stack up against the increase in salary. A pity maybe, it would have allowed working with Clojure.

may I ask what position/salary you were offered?

It was September 2013 actually. Offer:

Software Engineer with EUR 45.000 yearly salary + bonus up to EUR 5.000 and 6 months probation and cancellation period of 3 months from both sides.

I'm Dutch and lived in the Netherlands and it would have meant moving abroad.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by dacox »

I responded to one post on here 6 years ago and was hired as the second employee of a startup. There are about 50 of us now. We post every month or so, but don't get much traction. I believe I am the only person hired from HN.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by mattrighetti »

I got hired ~1 month ago as a software engineer by a startup based in Switzerland in one of the “Who wants to be hired?” post. I was unemployed for 6 months before that, couldn’t even imagine that I could get a decent offer on here to be honest.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

dacox wrote: post #73

I responded to one post on here 6 years ago and was hired as the second employee of a startup. There are about 50 of us now. We post every month or so, but don't get much traction. I believe I am the only person hired from HN.

Do you get a lot of replies, but the candidates are low quality or "poor fit"?

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

Bootvis wrote: post #72
nullcipher wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

may I ask what position/salary you were offered?

It was September 2013 actually. Offer: Software Engineer with EUR 45.000 yearly salary + bonus up to EUR 5.000 and 6 months probation and cancellation period of 3 months from both sides. I'm Dutch and lived in the Netherlands and it would have meant moving abroad.

I've seen this over and over again: German software engineer salaries are just too low.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by MaKey »

Bootvis wrote: post #72
nullcipher wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

may I ask what position/salary you were offered?

It was September 2013 actually. Offer: Software Engineer with EUR 45.000 yearly salary + bonus up to EUR 5.000 and 6 months probation and cancellation period of 3 months from both sides. I'm Dutch and lived in the Netherlands and it would have meant moving abroad.

It doesn't sound too bad for that time if it was an entry level position. I started with a similar salary as a DevOps engineer in Munich at the end of 2019. Munich isn't cheap though, I pay 1,5k € in rent for a 54 sqm 2,5 room apartment in a good neighbourhood.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by precompute »

So I guess HN is on a death spiral too, when submissions like this get 100+ upvotes in 4 hours. There's a lot of people that want to know how to signal properly to get a job here. That never bodes well.

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Dang should delete this submission.

Also, I've expressed this before, but in case Dang is reading this: HN needs to ice new users for much longer. A week or two until they can submit a post, a month or more before they can upvote.

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