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Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

#21

Some scammer "founder" invented a "job" to pick my brain while pretending to be hiring. Absolute liar. One of those customer/feedback chat widgets with video call features.

Same thing happened to me. We had an “interview” and then ghosted me. Shortly after, his product was Sherlocked and I was ecstatic.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

#23

More times than I can readily remember. A number of contracts, a number of full time jobs. Have attempted to hire on here a couple times as well though I don't recall it working out. I've been on here since 2007 though, so recent experience is substantially different. It's as bad as the dotcom bust in 2001 the last year or two. I generally prefer YC companies and early stage startups, so it's generally been good for…

Really? I wouldn't have thunk that this place would have contract roles. Were they w2 or c2c or 1099? The last 2 are super hard to come by. Got any tips to share on where to find such roles?

2007 - 2014 was the heyday for contract roles

now companies are worried about that classification

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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post #21

Some scammer "founder" invented a "job" to pick my brain while pretending to be hiring. Absolute liar. One of those customer/feedback chat widgets with video call features.

Same thing happened to me. We had an “interview” and then ghosted me. Shortly after, his product was Sherlocked and I was ecstatic.

Sherlocked?

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

#25
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing happened to me. We had an “interview” and then ghosted me. Shortly after, his product was Sherlocked and I was ecstatic.

Sherlocked?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

#26
I've been hired through HN twice.

Once at Singly, in 2010-ish. Was a contractor for about 4 months, they brought me on full time, and I spent about a year there, left to go to one of the big 4 consulting companies, spent 7 years there.

The second was at Greenhouse (the ATS) in 2021 -- was there until Jan of this year.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing happened to me. We had an “interview” and then ghosted me. Shortly after, his product was Sherlocked and I was ecstatic.

Sherlocked?

Industry term for when Apple launches a product that does substantially what yours does, or incorporates your product features into their product.

https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

#28
I'd love to list the founders on here who reached out and totally wasted my time trying to figure out how they should build the team they are hiring for vs trying to hire me the couple of times I posted on here about working with one of you. Totally overt bait and switch. I'm pretty sure a bunch of you would go "hmm, surprised those guys did that" given they're "known".

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

#30

I used a throwaway account because I was hired through HN. The work environment was terrible, extremely stressful, and led me to become very depressed. It wasn't until I shared my experiences with a friend, who was shocked and convinced me to quit, that I realized how bad it had been. This hasn't completely discouraged me from being hired through HN in similar situations, but I will definitely do more research on the…

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