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

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Post by mylastattempt »

atum47 wrote: post #51

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…

This is my first time hearing of 'moral harassment'. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!

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

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Post by drcoopster »

jszymborski wrote: post #52

I 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.

I posted a "Who's Hiring" post as an employee seeking a referral bonus. I got a few leads from that and ultimately referred two of them, one of whom we hired and is still working with us (and me) nearly three years later.

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

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Post by Arubis »

bilsbie wrote: post #59

I’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.

I've found a few clients through the Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer posts over the years. It's not a huge contributor to my pipeline, but it's not zero.

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

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Post by Arubis »

I found my first full-time remote W2 through HN back in 2013/2014. It wasn't a Who's Hiring post (were we running those back then?), but rather an HN discussion that linked out to a blog post at an organization that felt like an excellent cultural and technical match, despite being a couple timezones away. That kicked off an email thread with their tech leadership, and I had a job within about a month. Stayed there for four pretty good years!

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

peter_l_downs wrote: post #58
gwbas1c wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

The irony is that, I think if I had studied software engineering in college, I probably would have continued to get a PhD!

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

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Post by rvrs »

peterldowns wrote: post #49

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 M…

Your website says you went to MIT to study computer science anyways...?

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

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Post by atum47 »

mylastattempt wrote: post #61
atum47 wrote: post #51

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…

This is my first time hearing of 'moral harassment'. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!

Yeah, I tend to use Portuguese terms translated to English, sorry about that. English is not my native language.
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