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I 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 Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways.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.
Anyways if you see a company that is constantly using their free job listing every month on this site you should probably assume there's a reason they are constantly looking, and it isn't always good.
I 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 Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways.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.
What do you mean by this?
I 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.
De meesten van ons hier geloven dat een van de manieren waarop we kinderen vaardigheden zoals leiderschap en teamwerk kunnen bijbrengen, is door middel van teamsporten.
Sorry, mijn Nederlands is roestig.
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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
I’d say at least 200 problems, if no leetcode experience prior. Maybe 100 if you’re just refreshing. In both cases, I’d say there’s still a ton of luck involved. You can get interviewers who just won’t hire you no matter how well you do on the problem. I think 100/200 is still low for how the industry is today, to ensure at least one reasonable offer.
I owe my entire career to HN.
The company is great, my colleagues are great, and I owe it all to HN. Thank you HN!
Getting interviews at other companies involved more networking, i.e. finding an actual person to contact or reference me first, before getting the interview. On the HN posts I more or less just emailed the person listed on the HN submission and had an interview shortly after
(Had about 8 YOE at the time in full stack dev, for context)
I 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 ev…
Could the company not make another payroll, no option other than to spin it down? So the incompetence was first in getting that close, and second in executing the spindown?
Or did the business keep going, or did some people walk away more comfortably?
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…