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

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Post by banish-m4 » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 2:30 AM UTC

JohnMakin wrote: post #54

banish-m4 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're making a snap value judgement that offers no value. Perhaps you should keep your disrespectful comments about other people to yourself.

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

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Post by nvahalik » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 2:46 AM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #41

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.

I’ve hired someone off HN before. It only lasted two weeks or so but it was great.

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

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Post by PabloSichert » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 3:04 AM UTC

It's been a larger sequence of events until I got hired, but it all started by having shared a little side project[1] here that hit the front page in 2016.

Back then, Zach[2] from Timber.io reached out to me since they had just recently launched a startup in the logging space. We had a good exchange, but didn't get to work together. (I was burned out from my job and wanted to go back to university to study computer science, and felt that accepting "yet another job" wouldn't give me the perspective and foundational knowledge I was looking for. So I proposed a ridiculous rate that they understandably declined.)

However, we kept in touch over the years and I had good memories from our conversations.

During my studies, I fell in love with Rust. When I finished my bachelor's degree in 2020, I was looking for jobs in Rust that were specifically not in the blockchain/crypto currency industry (disqualifying at least 90% of the postings I had seen). Then Vector[3] caught my eye – a project by Timber.io. So I reached out to Zach again, and even though I had been fairly inexperienced in Rust, they took a shot on me. Eventually, Timber.io got bought by Datadog in 2021, and I sticked around until the end of 2022. After that, I was fully focused on finishing my master's degree.

To close the circle, I ended up founding a new company with Zach at the beginning of this year. We're still in stealth, but working on open source real-time video communication. If you're interested in tackling hard challenges in infrastructure/networking/native UI with Rust, please feel free to reach out – we have some open positions and I would love to reach for the same community that has once so openly accepted me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830763

[2] https://zach.sh

[3] https://vector.dev

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

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Post by crench » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 3:26 AM UTC

My whole career in technology is because of a "Who's Hiring?" thread back in 2012 or so.

Emailed the hiring email address in the thread for a company that seemed to suit my interests and abilities at the time and was off to the races. I moved from a rural area to a Midwestern state for the gig. Every job I've had since that job has been with companies comprised of permutations of those same coworkers from the first gig.

I'd probably still be doing roofing or something if I hadn't been an HN reader at that time.

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

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Post by mavelikara » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 3:30 AM UTC

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 have hired 4 engineers from “Who Wants To Be Hired” threads.

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

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Post by usui » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 6:04 AM UTC

piloto_ciego wrote: post #89

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…

There was another post in this thread that basically said, “toughen up buttercup” that I can no longer find. While I agree that this is a dickish thing to say, I can’t help but somewhat agree with the sentiment that tech workers are perhaps a little bit better off than the average person and don’t have a lot of perspective here about how bad it can get. Not saying that it’s ok, rather that when you can easily find an…

> I remember talking on the radio once during a checkride - “do you have shit in your mouth? Because you sound like it.”

Reading this already sets me off. Why the FUCK do people have uninstigated belligerence at work and to the general at large? What is their problem?

Why can't a simple, "Can you speak louder? I can't hear you." suffice? I'm so sick of people not having basic decency. This kind of person needs to fuck off.

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

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Post by jghn » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

The opposite, I hired someone through HN. Although i didn't realize for a while.

I talked my company into posting a HN post. All messages that recruiting didn't filter went to me. There was an obvious difference between those responses and other posts. Not necessarily better, just different.

One woman I hired reminded me a while later that she had originally "applied" via the who's hiring thread. I missed it at first but it made sense.

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

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Post by Glawen » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 6:34 AM UTC

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!

It is a term used in France, you can go to prison for harassing someone at work. https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2354#:...

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

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Post by nitwit005 » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

piloto_ciego wrote: post #89

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…

There was another post in this thread that basically said, “toughen up buttercup” that I can no longer find. While I agree that this is a dickish thing to say, I can’t help but somewhat agree with the sentiment that tech workers are perhaps a little bit better off than the average person and don’t have a lot of perspective here about how bad it can get. Not saying that it’s ok, rather that when you can easily find an…

> To act as though everyone can quit if their ego gets bruised by some jackass is the height of privilege.

They neither stated nor suggested that.

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

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Post by lormayna » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 7:45 AM UTC

Two years ago I was contacted for 2/3 interviews. One interview went not finalising as they were looking for a different position; another one was a very early startup that look for a part time employeer; the third one was really close to the offer. I decided to stop the negotiations because war in Russia started and the company was based in Russia, so I was scared to be impacted by sanctions.

A friend of mine found a job in a startup through HN.