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Can you tell us more about the last bit there? That sounds fascinating, finding a home builder on HN!
Yes please!
Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
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#222I responded to one post on here 6 years ago and was hired as the second employee of a startup. There are about 50 of us now. We post every month or so, but don't get much traction. I believe I am the only person hired from HN.
Do you get a lot of replies, but the candidates are low quality or "poor fit"?
I haven't look personally in a while, but I believe the volume is very low
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#223I did once and I liked where I ended up.
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#224I got hired at two separate a small PHP web dev shops from "who is hiring" posts. I worked at each for about a year. I've had a few other job interviews from those posts too. In fact it's been the single most successful method of applying and getting jobs I've ever had.
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#225I met the CEO of a startup a local Hacker News meetup. I joined his company as employee #8 in a (non-technical) role I wasn't qualified for, in an industry I didn't know existed, leveraging a technology I knew nothing about. I didn't have any accomplishments but a few failed startups, but he thought the hustle I demonstrated was all I needed to be successful in the role he was hiring for. Fortunately he was right. 1.…
How does one find Hacker News meetups? A quick google search didn't turn up anything active.
There's a seattle one (thru meetup) with 3k members but no events for past 3 years.
Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#226I met the CEO of a startup a local Hacker News meetup. I joined his company as employee #8 in a (non-technical) role I wasn't qualified for, in an industry I didn't know existed, leveraging a technology I knew nothing about. I didn't have any accomplishments but a few failed startups, but he thought the hustle I demonstrated was all I needed to be successful in the role he was hiring for. Fortunately he was right. 1.…
What's a problem you get only after 15 years? Lower back pain? I've never heard of interesting problems being gate-kept by years of experience. PhDs have the best share of current interesting problems.
Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#227HN 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.
Thanks for the free database! I run several non-public services and It's and geo restricting it got rid all vuln scanning and exploit testing overnight. I had 0 intentions of using an API to query every single incoming address for privacy reasons.
The database is super nice. Try out ASN based restrictions as well, you can block suspicious data centers as well.
Let me know if you have suggestions or feedback about it. Also if you are found a neat trick please share it as well. Because it is a data product there are infinite ways to use it, so, documenting everything is very hard.
Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#228HN 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 just integrated your service into a back-end system for a company building some VR stuff. I switched to your service because an issue in another IP lookup service was causing a bug in our server back-end. I think, over the years and various projects, I've had to integrate ipinfo.io at least a half-dozen times in a variety of projects, usually a server written in C or C++.
Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#229I 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.
I had a very similar experience with a company that advertises on HN quite a bit. It turns out the company had actually split in two, and all the competent managers left to join the new company. It was amazing how much the VP and CEO would constantly contradict each other, sabotage projects, and even insult their own staff members (at one point I recommended they promote a senior eng to a higher position, but the VPE…
Wow that sounds eerily similar to my experience, I'm sorry you had to go through that!
Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
#230I 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.
> Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways. What do you mean by this?
I mean that they used versions of frameworks that were no longer supported, and they did not use best practices which resulted in lots of security concerns (and messy code).