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Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by robertlagrant »

ownagefool wrote: post #71
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 t…

If that's what they want, then just buy the skillets.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by codetrotter »

I searched job listings from HN “Who’s hiring” posts with some third-party tools, filtering to only show me jobs where they were looking for people with experience in my favourite programming language.

I read through the job listings and contacted the ones that seemed interesting.

Among them was a company of whom I am a customer, and who I like.

That company ended up hiring me and I’ve been working for them as a contractor for 11 months now.

I hope that I can stay with them for several years :)

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by davidjones332 »

ownagefool wrote: post #71
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 t…

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Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by marcotm »

Indirectly, in a way. A few months ago, I built a small site [1] that parses and structures the "Who is hiring" posts using GPT. It was/is just a personal project to deepen my actual experience in building things with LLMs [2]. After the launch [3], I was actually contacted a few times for LLM-related projects. I am not looking for a full-time job at the moment, but it led to a small consulting/contracting engagement.

PS: The site is still up. Some people think it's a nice alternative interface for quickly skimming the "Who is hiring" posts.

[1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com [2] https://marcotm.com/articles/information-extraction-with-lar... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259897

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by rco8786 »

I got hired from a "Who's Hiring" post back in 2012 to a very famous, then pre-IPO company that absolutely changed my career trajectory. It prompted a move to SF, followed by NYC. I got to be a part of a "big tech IPO". I got exposed to incredibly smart people and cutting edge tech. And made some money to boot. It put a giant "stamp of approval" on my resume and opened up doors I could only dream of previously.

HN is a wonderful place full of opportunity.

I've also hired ~3 people from those threads, now that I'm in a position to do so. They've all been excellent hires (though be prepared for some resume spam in your inbox if you have a post that catches people's eye)

I also met the guy who ended up building my custom dream home (from which I sit as I type this) via HN.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by pavlov »

I met a co-founder on HN in January 2014. I saw his post about a product that was right in my wheelhouse. While technically it wasn't a hiring post, I ended up joining the company (which was just him at that point).

4.5 years later we had an exit. Not a massive one because it was a seven-person company with a rather niche product for professionals, but a good outcome for everyone. Thanks HN for enabling this interesting trip!

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by eganist »

ryanferg wrote: post #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.

Houston Astros? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492177

Honestly that's pretty awesome (and a genuinely amazing story); every time I've seen a championship ring, it spurred deep conversation. Admittedly it only happened three times, all for Nationals staff, but everyone was passionate about what they did.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by tough »

engie wrote: post #125

I 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 surprisingl…

It never occured to me either because I expect leetcode wars and gatekeeping, but maybe 10 ago was different?
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