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They've been at this for a while, I got one in Sept 2022 "Saw your profile on HN and we think your skills look like a good fit for our team" If it had been "we saw you are engaged on hacker news" instead of "we saw your profile" I might have actually responded. I don't have a profile on this site. I have a barely reputable profile, and I'm lucky when my engagement is received positively. It's like when I get spam ima…
Why startups needs to spam for candidates? Is it too hard to find good engineers, especially now that your pool is almost worldwide (if you accept remote)? Consider the amount of layoffs lately, I'd say startups should have it easy. The explanation is probably that I don't understand the market at all...
Why startups needs to spam for candidates? Is it too hard to find good engineers, especially now that your pool is almost worldwide (if you accept remote)? Consider the amount of layoffs lately, I'd say startups should have it easy. The explanation is probably that I don't understand the market at all...
Because if you could save money on hiring, you would. When you are in survival mode (not saying anything about the company referenced, just startups in general) you tend to get fast and loose with the truth. There's always a reason to justify what you did last week because "if we didn't do $AWFUL_THING everybody would have been fired."
I think if you live in this headspace long enough you begin to devalue / depersonalize the "cogs" in the machine you are constructing.
Being ramen profitable used to be a thing that was done because it was a necessity for survival and getting started. It became fashionable at some point as opposed to something done out of necessity. The idea of cost cutting everything "unnecessary" is so attractive to people who are not involved in actually DOING things. It's impossible for them to resist the urge given sufficient time and profit.
If they were involved with actual work, their minds would be occupied with something useful instead of inventing ways to justify their value.
The whole "spamming HN for hires" behavior to me is like orca whales swimming around with dead fish on their heads. Cheapness as a fad. Don't try to understand it.
They've been at this for a while, I got one in Sept 2022 "Saw your profile on HN and we think your skills look like a good fit for our team" If it had been "we saw you are engaged on hacker news" instead of "we saw your profile" I might have actually responded. I don't have a profile on this site. I have a barely reputable profile, and I'm lucky when my engagement is received positively. It's like when I get spam ima…
You posted in "Who wants to be hired?" in Sept 2022.
I received the same email after the first time I posted to the monthly “Who wants to be hired?” thread. Gross, really.
I'm confused - you posted in the "who wants to be hired" thread, and then got an email from this company asking if you'd be interested?
Everyone complaining about this here has posted their email in a thread that is literally called "Who wants to be hired?" and now they're upset that a company is reaching out? What am I missing?
It's called "who wants to be hired" and typically has appropriate information about their profile so that someone can decide if they fit the role they need to fill.
It's not called "who want's to be spammed by an automated system that can't tell if you're a 16 year old JS only frontend dev or the engineer we actually need."
The difference is filtering. If they spam (and that's what it is when it's sent to everyone sight unseen) everyone then it makes the "who want's to be hired" threads worse for everyone.
EDIT:
To put it another way, if your company has a referral bonus you don't send them your entire rolodex of contacts for them to cold call. You would typically send them specific people you think match the role they need to fill (of course after verifying with people, etc).
They've been at this for a while, I got one in Sept 2022 "Saw your profile on HN and we think your skills look like a good fit for our team" If it had been "we saw you are engaged on hacker news" instead of "we saw your profile" I might have actually responded. I don't have a profile on this site. I have a barely reputable profile, and I'm lucky when my engagement is received positively. It's like when I get spam ima…
I have a theory:
Matching candidates to jobs requires time and effort on both sides: both need carefully consider if it's a relationship worth pursuing.
Messages like the one above are intended to trick people into thinking that the employer has already done some filtering, and by implication, the candidate is more likely to land a job if they too will consider the pairing.
So basically it's similar to shopping for a car, and trying to convince the salespeople from 10 different dealerships that you're ready to buy from them, if only they'll put in some extra effort and concessions.
If my theory is correct, than I see this as disingenuous and sleazy on the side of the employer / recruiter. IMHO it reflects badly on whoever uses the tactic [0].
[0] I realize that when someone has a family to feed, they may resort to behaviors they'd normally be above. So I don't mean this as an ultimate judgment on people who feel they have no other choice than to do this.
I received the same email after the first time I posted to the monthly “Who wants to be hired?” thread. Gross, really.
I'm confused - you posted in the "who wants to be hired" thread, and then got an email from this company asking if you'd be interested?
If that's what's happening, it's a form of fraud (but legal, I imagine).