I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don't happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.
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#52I got hired via HN through the Who's Hiring post and gotten two solicitations through comments.
The Who's Hiring post was actually posted by an employee seeking a referral bonus. Overall a good experience.
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#53I reached out to a company here and got hired as a working student, still there 9 years later :)
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#54Earlier 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.
The startup was ServiceBell. It was a feature company in a crowded market with little defensibility. They're still around. It's easy to get rich quick in business when you're dishonest for a short time, but it's slightly more difficult to be honest, trustworthy, and not a pathological liar. Karma, reputation, and the law eventually catch up with shady people who didn't learn anything about the social contract from th…
> Karma, reputation, and the law eventually catch up with shady people who didn't learn anything about the social contract from their parents.
This is comforting to believe but I'm not sure reality aligns with that.
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#55Related: I hired over 25 people through HN (across the world) before CompilerWorks was bought by Google in Oct 2022!
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#56I applied for a job from a December 2020 Who's Hiring post, started in early February 2021.
I'm still with the posted position: I really like the company and the people I work with. It's certainly one of the better jobs I've had in my career.
In my 2020 job search, I gravitated towards "Who's Hiring" for a few reasons: I interacted directly with hiring managers, and I prefer early-stage companies. The concise nature of posts makes it easy to flag the ones I want to pursue. The fact that it's once a month means I know that someone is actively hiring.
In contrast, I don't like working with non-technical "middlemen" recruiters, I don't like FAANG-style hiring, long job postings make it hard to narrow down which ones I want to pursue, and I'm always afraid that I'm applying to a job posting that's "for show" and I'm just wasting my time. (IE, some managers always try to keep a few open positions as a way of working large company politics without seriously intending on filling those positions.)
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#57Me! 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 M…
> 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.
That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software Engineering" program, too.
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#58Me! 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 M…
> 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. That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software Engineering" program, too.
I ended up working for 2 years before I went to school, and it made a lot of things easier. When I graduated I was very certain that I wanted to go back to industry rather than go to academia. Definitely different jobs and skillsets.
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#59I’m thinking the who’s hiring works reasonably well but the other two: freelancers, and wants to be hired are pretty worthless (for job seekers)
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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#60I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don't happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working…
Nice story, good for you.
I like that you curated your search, hiring would be in such a better place if everyone did that. Anymore, every single opening gets spammed thousands of resumes with absolutely no skill or history relevant to the company. Makes it harder for the hiring side and people like yourself.