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Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.

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Re: Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.

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Congrats! I'm a former Kaggle employee and it is an incredible place to work.

That's the best kind of endorsement any company can get. Kudos for taking the time out to say something positive about a former employer, normally whenever people make an effort to talk about former employers it is only in a negative sense.

For immediate happiness, I find the direct manager more important than the company. Besides my current employer, I recommend anyone work for Jonathan Clay or Mark Fussell if you ever get the chance.

Re: Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.

#55
I too was impressed by the response from posting on that thread. I had recently moved to Germany to be closer to my partner and got spotted by a company that was really interesting to me (MenschDanke [0]). Had a few interviews, met the team and all that went well and I start working on Monday :)

[0]: http://www.menschdanke.de/ This thread should definitely be continued!

Re: Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you put your location and whether you working looking remote or on site work on your post or did they ignore that?

I did and it seems to have been ignored or missed by plenty of folks.

Can someone do another "who wants to be hired?" thread

Re: Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.

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I had kind of the opposite experience; interviewed one or more times with a bunch of the "Who's hiring" companies and only one had the decency to send an email with an update; the others went into radio silence.

Me too. There were a few "Who's Hiring" companies where I went through multiple interviews- I even got a verbal offer from one- only for the companies to just stop responding to me.

In a strange way this makes me feel a bit better (so it's not just me). If there was no downside I'll publicly shame these companies.

Re: Thank HN: You guys helped me land my dream job.

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gratz on the job. did you ever implement the 'bells' system for the animal crossing site? That idea intrigued me as a workaround for ad blockers.

It's been slow, but it's promised for the next release (after the current one we're working on, which should release in the next few weeks). I will admit we've not handled it very well, as far as timing, as we talked about it way too early.

But it's at the top of the list following this release, so nothing else will get updated without the Bells shop being implemented, however long it takes us.

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