Scrapped emails from "Who is Hiring?" posts, sent an email to all and got a lot of responses and found a nice company in San Francisco
Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
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#152I responded to a post [1] by Skydio's head of autonomy and ended up going through their interview process and joining - have been at Skydio for almost 2 years now. Thanks HN!
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#153I 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?
How many problems do you need to grind to get hired
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#154Not from a specific thread, but an HN user mailed some of the leaders list in 2014 asking if they wouldn’t mind spending a little time to review their new jobs board. Of course, they’d pre-filled it with scraped jobs, one of which was for GOV.UK. Applying for that specific role was the best career decision I ever made.
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#156Have my absolute favourite job from a cold response to a cryptic HN "who's hiring" post.
They used HN because they wanted hackers, and they did a lot of hiring from FOSS projects, creative endeavours, anything demonstrably self-driven. Working for peers whose skills, intelligence, and ethic I respect means I take a fully moralized approach to my daily work. The mission is pretty standard other than being super high performance, but the people make it an absolute privilege to be here.
If I ever had to explain this handle it would be that the creative urge is an engine that needs an exhaust stroke to keep going, and so I write, but nobody asks. We just all know we read posts here. Hey co-workers, I'd never say it in chat because being meta wrecks flow and vibes, but you're all pretty cool.
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#157I joined a startup incubator via Who's Hiring and stayed for 6 years. Great learning experience!
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#158I used HN to find an internship that helped launch my career eight years ago. In my most recent round of job searching, I've used it to find a few great companies as well.
The quality and response rate of the postings on here tends to be quite high, which is a refreshing deviation from the norm.
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#159I 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…
Where are the London or UK-based meetups advertised?
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#160I got hired from a Who's Hiring post last year. I doubt my experience is the standard but I landed at a really terrible company. Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways. The culture was extremely toxic as well. I have since moved on to a nice new company I found through my network.