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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.
As someone currently living in Switzerland I'm curious, is it a remote job?
In 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…
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As someone currently living in Switzerland I'm curious, is it a remote job?
It's hybrid actually, I'm not really that much into remote working and I enjoy the office but I am still in the process of relocating so I do wfh for half the week.
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 mu…
I’m not sure asking Dang to arbitrarily censor posts that reflect existential feelings about where HN is heading is the best idea. That’s what not pressing the upvote button is for. Agree on submission icing for new accounts I guess, as it would help people get a better idea of the guidelines and community first.
"Who wants to be hired (June 2023)" : 140 points, 17 hours
This submission: 121 points, 4 hours
There's a certain kind of user / member that really craves being a part of the group and yet never really tries, he'll just try and ape what the "successful" people do. As communities get larger, these people increase in number. Submissions like this are basically crack for them. You'll get a couple of these threads every single week, and in the end you'll have to moderate the problem away anyway, because they won't just stop at "Who got hired", they'll start with "How to get hired on HN" and then try to game the entire thing. It'll tank people's confidence in getting good talent off HN. After all, there's only so much you can do to filter candidates, you can't conclusively claim "fraud" if someone has 7/10 "good" indicators.
I speak from some experience, I moderate a small niche community that doesn't require any physical capital to initiate the "hobby". There's a lot of people that just want an exclusive "community" but don't care if they're genuine about it. Some people get it, it invites countersignalling (not always direct, in-your-face stuff) and then the community degrades rapidly unless you can silo the good users away.
~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).
Did you intentionally not tell them you were in Iran and instead just said you wanted to be paid in bitcoin without explanation? I'm extremely curious.
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.
As someone currently living in Switzerland I'm curious, is it a remote job?
Im still interested in doing work for a swiss company, remote mostly though. Which might make it harder. I am based in NL. Also not strictly a developer, also like product ownership or product management.
Any tips or tricks?