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Interesting, could you elaborate on why 4 years is the magic number?
stock vesting periods are usually 4 years
Ah, i see
Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
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Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#122I got hired from HN years ago from just chatting to people here – I believe this was before the monthly who's hiring thread even existed.
Since then I've had less luck on here. I've put my details into the "who wants to be hired" threads several times without a single email. I'd genuinely be shocked if any employers regularly go through those posts to be honest.
The "who's hiring" threads have been better... I've applied for a few jobs through those over the last decade and had 2 or 3 interviews, but those roles never quite worked out for one reason or another. I don't see a huge amount of value in them anymore though – I tend to find more interesting stuff to apply for from just browsing Linkedin and job boards.
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#123My last two jobs were from Who is Hiring threads.
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#124I 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…
https://www.voetbalassist.nl/ ?
Looks really well done!
Note: On https://www.voetbalassist.nl/perfecte-wedstrijdweek/ going to demo through the menu ( mobile - Android) doesn't work. "Gratis uitproberen werkt wel.
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#125I chatted to a Facebook engineer at one of the early HN London events back in 2013, got talked into sending through a CV and I've been with ... Meta ever since.
Very grateful to this community as it had genuinely never occurred to me to apply to work for big tech. Which is obviously dumb, I've been obsessed with the industry since the early 90s, a good reminder that goals and sense of possibilities can be surprisingly blinkered by our environment/culture.
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#126I also got hired/contracted a couple of times from HN (I'm usually posting to the Freelancer thread as well). I have good experiences from HN. It's also good for networking. I got to know ppl who wasn't a good fit but after talking they referred to to someone who needed my help.
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#127HN 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.
I use your site constantly by manually typing ipinfo.io/geo. Thanks for the free service.
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#128I got my current job from HN who's hiring. They helped me move to a new country and I've been here for almost 4 years now.
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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.
At this point I don't even answer the recruiter emails/messages I get from Germany. The offers are simply not worth the time.
I say this as a European, who has never had US or FANG level wages.
Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#130I got my current job from HN who's hiring. They helped me move to a new country and I've been here for almost 4 years now.
Yup, exact same situation for me as well. Very thankful for this opportunity. First year for me though.