I've posted in the May 2019 thread and I've been contacted by 2 companies, no recruiter-spam; I didn't get hired, but I've slightly adjusted my search parameters since then.
Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#152My view on these 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Who's Hiring?' threads... 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. As such the hiring threads are mostly jobs in that discipline. I'm an oddball on Hacker News, I have a keen interest in all tech development, but my official skill set is Windows Server Applications based Architecture[1], and Identity & Access Manageme…
Having a similar profile, I can tell there are such jobs but they are fairly rare. Most of such work is done these days via outsourcing companies, believe it or not :(
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#153I got my current job from there 3 years ago, started my freelancing career, then moved to New Zealand to work full time
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#154My view on these 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Who's Hiring?' threads... 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. As such the hiring threads are mostly jobs in that discipline. I'm an oddball on Hacker News, I have a keen interest in all tech development, but my official skill set is Windows Server Applications based Architecture[1], and Identity & Access Manageme…
Based on your skill set, we'd hire you immediately (we're a listed, 3000+ employee company). I work in the Berlin office, but we do have offices in every world region. The other comment here is BS. People who work with Windows Server, AD and .NET are sorely needed. Even more so in Europe, where an enterprise world exists that HN people apparently never heard of (see your 'oddball' statement). The real problem here is the WFH requirement. That's just a no-no. That doesn't mean we don't offer WFH (in fact, I'm working from home 3 out of 5 days a week), but remote only is not an option. I think the maximum WFH days per week for other people is around 2.
So I guess I'll say this (to anyone here): If you have experience with AD, C# and SQL Server optimization (nice to have) get in touch. I don't care if you have a formal education or you're 15 or 55. In Berlin with German skills, I can get you an interview almost immediately, for other languages and regions I'll redirect you to the appropriate contact.
I don't post in the we're hiring threads because we'd drown in the ML/ad etc company profiles. We don't save the world. We don't stop climate change. We don't use AI to be the next Uber of X. We need somewhat skilled devs working on (what HN would consider) boring problems, to help tens of thousands of companies/IT people get other boring shit done quickly.
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#156My view on these 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Who's Hiring?' threads... 90% of the readership of Hacker News are Web Developers, either front end only, or full stack. As such the hiring threads are mostly jobs in that discipline. I'm an oddball on Hacker News, I have a keen interest in all tech development, but my official skill set is Windows Server Applications based Architecture[1], and Identity & Access Manageme…
I agree that the employers/readers of the thread are probably biased towards some areas, but is it really only web? I'd guess also native apps and statistics (machine learning) are quite popular.
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#157I have hired about 12 developers from these threads over the past 5 years.
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#158Absolutely. I have applied multiple times and contacted once. While I did not get hired, I can assure you (based on the series of interviews and a coding challenge) , yes , people do get hired and the interviewers are genuine people looking to hire talented people for the role they advertised. No recruiter spam yet.
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#159Interestingly I'd been wondering the exact same thing, having only recently decided to respond to the latest "who wants to be hired" thread.
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
#160I started the "Who wants to be hired?" threads over 5 years ago [1] after dang giving his blessing on it [2], and was super excited that it led to the job [3] that I still happily hold today. I really wish these threads were more active -- and received more upvotes -- relative to the "Who's hiring" threads, as it seems like the signal to noise is so much better, and also seems like the success rate would be quite a b…
Thanks for creating it! As for me it was certainly the "people don't have confidence in their success rate". Also was always a bit afraid of recruiter spam.
Here's the link of this month's edition, if anyone wants to give it a go (I finally did!)