I did back in 2010 by a local startup. Saw a post here, attended a local user group to meet the hiring manager who posted it. Had a job offer about a week later after an interview.
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#183I got hired after seeing a post by an early YC company posting a position. It wasn't a "Who's Hiring"? or "Who wants to be hired"? post though.
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#184Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
Got my current role from Who is Hiring post. Been 2+ years
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#186HN 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.
Coderholic hired me from HN! I wanted to be a DE, but I got interviewed for a success engineer post for one company. So, in a random thread, I described what my plans would be if I got hired in a success role. So, Coderholic saw that comment, he sent me an email and asked me to apply to be their first DevRel. He was extremely patient with me and was kind enough to give me a shot. That's how I made it IPinfo. I really…
You do amazing work and we're lucky to have you on the team!
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#187I got an internship a few years ago off a Hacker News who's hiring post. It was pretty cool because I was a sophomore international student so I wasn't having much luck anywhere else. I now recommend it to anyone else I see looking for a job.
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#188I joined a YC startup from an HN post, which was in some ways a great experience, and in other ways was terrible. A real mixed bag.
I still keep in touch with some of the people I worked with there and it was honestly some of the best quality people I've ever been on a team with, unfortunately the founder decided to shark everyone technical at the company after we hit a major milestone early letting go the CTO and everyone on my team, including me, and at the time I was traveling (with the company's encouragement). They stranded me in a foreign country with no severance and no working technology (no phone/laptop). I eventually sorted things out with them, and I hope they continue to succeed as I have no hard feelings, but it was definitely one of my wilder startup experiences. Just to clarify, it was definitely an issue of incompetence, not of being malicious, they had no formal HR function and just really handled things badly out of ignorance rather than a desire to cause me harm.
The experience was actually key to why I decided to stop being an engineer and become a product manager instead, so in that way it was a massively necessary moment in my career to get to where I am today. That said, I'm not sure if I'd repeat the entire experience.
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#189I 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.
Did the Astros consult you during their sign stealing scheme?
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#190I did! It was glorious! I was a bored out of my mind DBA in Oregon and shot my shot at a logistics startup who was posting here on HN located in Hamburg and I got the job! This was 5 years ago.