My current and previous position were found through HN (and the one before that through Reddit). I've also hired through HN a number of times for other positions at the same companies with pretty good success.
Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
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#122Interestingly, two or three years ago I sent a few emails via Who is Hiring and I got probably 3/4 response rate, and an offer (which I refused in the end, staying in my current company). This year my current company is not in a good shape, and I sent perhaps 20 emails and got NOTHING nothing at all back.
My thinking is because this year I'm 40 years old and ATS software now marks me as a dinosaur.
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#124I am currently on my third client in last 4 years from HN who wants to be hired thread. One very good client, stayed 18 months with them, significant equity appreciation until now; a very bad “deadbeat” client who still owes me $8K in back wages (6 months overdue); and my current client of 4 months, so far so good.
One thing I learnt is to request HN username and review their post history, and consider suspicious the ones who claim not having one or not participating in HN discussions.
A longer comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39311784
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#125Interestingly, two or three years ago I sent a few emails via Who is Hiring and I got probably 3/4 response rate, and an offer (which I refused in the end, staying in my current company). This year my current company is not in a good shape, and I sent perhaps 20 emails and got NOTHING nothing at all back. My thinking is because this year I'm 40 years old and ATS software now marks me as a dinosaur.
I saw this just before you edited. Don't worry I won't reveal anything. But I wanted to say that - although I hope you're wrong about what you wrote - you might also be right, and if so it is awful. Some people cannot separate one thing from another.
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#126Interestingly, two or three years ago I sent a few emails via Who is Hiring and I got probably 3/4 response rate, and an offer (which I refused in the end, staying in my current company). This year my current company is not in a good shape, and I sent perhaps 20 emails and got NOTHING nothing at all back. My thinking is because this year I'm 40 years old and ATS software now marks me as a dinosaur.
I saw this just before you edited. Don't worry I won't reveal anything. But I wanted to say that - although I hope you're wrong about what you wrote - you might also be right, and if so it is awful. Some people cannot separate one thing from another.
Thank you. I just hope in the end it was not relevant and it was just me looking for something to blame.
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#127Me. Best company ever.
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#128In 2019 I posted for the first time in the “Who wants to be hired” thread. A few days later I got an email from a company and went through their hiring process. I’m still there today and over the last 3 months I hired 6 people I found through HN (combo of “Who wants to be hired” outreach and responses to our “Who’s hiring” comment).
In addition to that, I’ve received 3-4 requests via email to Interview for a position given things I’ve talked about on HN (various technologies/frameworks/libraries/etc).
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#129I’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.
Of the 6 people I hired over the last 3 months:
3: responded to the who is hiring post
1: contacted me based on a comment I made on an unrelated thread
2: from who wants to be hired that I reached out to
In total I reached out to about 30 people from “who wants to be hired”, I heard back from 19 of them, 9 of them went on to interview (the others had already found jobs, I went back a few months looking - at least 1 of my hires had only posted 4 months ago), and I hired 2 of them.
Across all sources I interviewed 30 people (between 1-4 interviews depending on how far they got, around 70 interviews total) and hired 6.
I’m not sure if you think that proves or disproves your point, just wanted to provide the data.
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#130Interestingly, two or three years ago I sent a few emails via Who is Hiring and I got probably 3/4 response rate, and an offer (which I refused in the end, staying in my current company). This year my current company is not in a good shape, and I sent perhaps 20 emails and got NOTHING nothing at all back. My thinking is because this year I'm 40 years old and ATS software now marks me as a dinosaur.
> My thinking is because this year I'm 40 years old and ATS software now marks me as a dinosaur.
The market is also far far worse right now than it was 3 years ago