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Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?
I see Hire Me posted every month here, was curious to know what is the success rate of landing a job. If not getting an offer, how many companies approached you?
- mtmail 6y agoRelated "Ask HN: Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468924 "Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330818
- austincheney 6y agoIt is very high visibility. I posted in the December job thread and received several responses. Most of those responses occurred in January just weeks before Covid changes and job losses. I talked with several employers. Instead of accepting a new job I chose to instead investigate employment options with the military which likely proved to be a more stable consideration.
- infinitybeyond 6y agoI posted in today's thread and have received three emails from companies so far. All in my local area. I also included my linkedin and have received a few connection requests, but no messages from any of them.
- stevekemp 6y agoThat's pretty cool, and also pretty lucky. I just found I get my email added to a bunch of spam-lists and received contacts from people saying things like "I see you're in Helsinki, would you like to relocate to Canada?"
- erik_seaberg 6y agoBody shops always want me to relocate to the Midwest for six months to be a Lotus Notes admin because I developed for it … 20 years ago.
- rasikjain 6y agoI have been contacted multiple times from HN Hire me threads. I would say the quality of job requirements coming through HN is very good. I ended up doing multiple contract projects with these monthly Hire HN threads.
- giantg2 6y agoI haven't posted there. I imagine it's similar to the who's hiring thread. I was excited to look through them, but seems the postings are usually for senior dev or higher positions. I'm not qualified for that (at least not in a relevant technology), so it's been a pretty disparaging experience for me.
- scott31 6y agoI look at hire me thread every month but really there aren't any interesting candidates. Pretty much everyone is nodejs/react type and I need to hire people that can build software to last. If I see anyone mention Arc in that thread I will instantly send a job offer
- non-entity 6y agoIs your company actually using Arc? I wouldn't be shocked if most of the people well versed in non-mainstream tech don't bother advertising themselves as being such.
- scott31 6y agoNo, Arc isn't actually a good fit for what we are building.
- literallycancer 6y agoNice filter. Personally, for engineering positions I only hire a capella singers who play lacrosse :)
- pknerd 6y agoI neither do Node nor react. Mostly in Python, PHP and now Go. But I am not a rockstar or Ninja:). I am mostly a generalist.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
- DegreeChamp 6y agoI've hired off it and found good candidates from it.
- kalvisk 6y agoSaddest part is that if someone declines / folds Your application w/o interview, they are hesitant to provide constructive(good, bad) feedback :/