Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
I did! Back in 2020, I found a job after 6 months of job search thanks to that thread. A very well paid job as a PM for a remote-first startup after PMF.
Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
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#102Not directly from HN, but HN helped me get the job
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#103In 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…
4 years - the magic number...
Interesting, could you elaborate on why 4 years is the magic number?
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#104I 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.
George Costanza got his job at the Yankees off HN too.
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#106I totally did, and am thankful to HN for this.
I posted on the Who Wants to be Hired?
Had someone reach out to me from a very cool company and ask if I might be interested in joining them. Interviewed... Found out the guy who hired me was really looking for his new boss... now I run the Platform and Data Engineering groups at this company, and he's one of my directs, and we are having an immense amount of fun. Landed in a company with an incredible mission (Software for Youth Sports), and couldn't be happier.
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#107I found my first startup job out of school on HN in the 2010s. I moved on to another role within a year though. The work I did is still visible online—an ode to Tufte :)
I also used to post job posts here for another company and I think we may have hired or at least interviewed someone, but I can't quite remember
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#108I've found two pretty awesome freelance projects from HN.
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#109A year ago, I wrote a long reply to someone's post, sharing my thoughts about hiring design agency vs. freelancing designer (such as myself). I got two long-term customers who found this post and contacted me after that. Thanks HN!
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#110I did, as my first job out of college back in 2020. I was there for a little bit and set up some of their early infrastructure before moving on. The company shows up every once in a while here so it seems like they’re doing well :)