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

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Post by JohnMakin »

banish-m4 wrote: post #111
JohnMakin wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Sorry, I’m not really sure what part of my comment is disrespectful other than you may disagree with it. Reality certainly doesn’t align with the assertion that eventually justice is metered out to people doing bad things. Do you have evidence that it does?

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

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Post by sircastor »

gwbas1c wrote: post #57
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…

> 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 completed a BS in Software Engineering a few years ago, and my schools program was almost identical to the CS program. The courses it lacked were (as I recall) Operating Systems and Networking (I’m a bit sad I didn’t get to take those, but I had to finish the work online, and the CS degree wasn’t available as an online program)

I’m not certain, but I think most SE programs are largely CS programs

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

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Post by gtirloni »

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…

Because other people have to basically behave like wage slaves, doesn't mean that is fine and programmers should just shut up and withstand abuse.

This is the same argument over and over that IT has it too good and maybe when there are layoffs or abuse scandals, some people rejoice in knowing they too are suffering like others. Like it's deserved.

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

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Post by throwawayy1009 »

buggy6257 wrote: post #73

Not specifically the HN who's hiring etc threads, but through YCombinator's job board I was approached, interviewed, and hired. Loved the company, work was fun (even if not my favorite language), but I upset the CTO by questioning his Golden Boy, the CTO stole an idea wholesale from me after telling me it was a bad idea, and then fired me with no specific reasons. If it weren't for that CTO I'd likely still be workin…

This is an issue I'm having right now with a small startup. The founder calls all shots and some people upset him and got fired promptly (for what I'm told, not so fair reasons). I'm always working like I'm stepping on eggshels. It's making me really wary of applying to other startups in the future.

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

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Post by red-iron-pine »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #97
hirvi74 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think such students should have been in SE instead? Because it aligns more with their goals? Perhaps you are right, but I am thankful for my CS background despite being a SWE myself. Understand that I am also close to the intelligence level of crayon-eating compared to most on this site. I felt like my unspectacular public state university level CS degree wouldn't even hold a candle to some of the people's…

I think you can have an SE track with the appropriate amount of CS background. You'd have to, to be a functional engineer. (Then again, some I've worked with...) One reason I also wish I'd gone along an SE track is that it would likely have given me a lot more experience actually doing what I do for work. Using version control, working with others in a group setting, actually making software .

> Using version control, working with others in a group setting, actually making software.

aye, this. in my experience hard part isn't doing the actual coding bits, it's ironing out the Requirements, stuffing them into JIRA, building the Interface document to cover what we're coding, writing documentation, and making sure the new guy doesn't break the version control.

Coding the specification isn't hard once we have them. A lot of that is outsourced in my org, esp. fluff related to a few areas like UX. But the hard part is getting there, and the engineering processes and mentality to do so.

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

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Post by bilsbie »

mavelikara wrote: post #115
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.

Interesting. How did you chose, just the skills you were looking for?

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

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Post by gaws »

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…

> 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.

2021. Different time, different hiring attitudes. A shame 2024 is no longer an employee's market.

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