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

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 6:46 AM UTC

As suspected, this long-running "Who is hiring" recurring submission is mostly fake jobs and has a success rate for the "applicants" of close to zero.

Perhaps the "Who wants to be hired" recurring submission is similarly bogus.

Free information gathering at the expense of gulllible computer users, here, "developers". Another page from the SillyCon Valley playbook.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 6:50 AM UTC

banish-m4 wrote: post #4

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.

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

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Post by rcarmo » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:22 AM UTC

Got a few pings, but nothing of substance. Being in Europe, it’s not easy.

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

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Post by itsmemattchung » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC

Yup: I had reached out to a small business owner (had to hunt down his email) to pick his brain on CRMs. That one phone call turned into me consulting for him for a short period of time.

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

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Post by junaid1460 » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 8:39 AM UTC

Me through monthly job posting thread

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

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Post by perklone » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 9:00 AM UTC

I did, from a YC startup based in SEA.

Who's Hiring hit-rate is much better than my LinkedIn hit-rate :D

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

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Post by karaterobot » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 1:39 PM UTC

In late 2019, I applied for a job I read about on a Who's Hiring thread, and worked at that company for about 2 years.

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

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Post by snow_mac » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 3:36 PM UTC

smabie wrote: post #9

got contacted by a trading firm when one of the founders saw one of my Show HN posts. Was my breakthrough into the quant / hft industry and I now run my own trading firm: that one event massively changed the trajectory of my entire life.

Please tell us more about the trading firm. Sounds interesting

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

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Post by peterldowns » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 3:37 PM UTC

Me! When I was in highschool I started emailing companies from the whoishiring thread, managed to find an apprenticeship in SF. My thinking was that before I went to college to study computer science I should check to see if I liked writing code.

Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since.

Thank you to Mek, Stephen, and Matt for taking a chance on me.

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

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Post by snow_mac » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 3:37 PM UTC

jaggederest wrote: post #36

zer0sand0nes wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There's a monthly "seeking freelancer" thread, or at least there used to be. I also always mention my comfort working contract with people even when I'm interviewing for full time roles, in case that's helpful for them. "Any way that gets the money from your bank account to mine". Edit: Also, I do recommend the "startup match" system they run, I've been having good success with that this year, found my current role a…

Where is the startup match?