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>I went on HN Who's Hiring And that's exactly why your experience was the way it was. HN is a self-selected crowd with a very specific mentality. Unsolicited a
by gambler 6y ago
>I went on HN Who's Hiring
And that's exactly why your experience was the way it was. HN is a self-selected crowd with a very specific mentality. Unsolicited advice: try a traditional job search website and look for companies outside of California and NYC. Your experience will be drastically different. I'm not saying it will be awesome every single time, but there will be more diversity in approaches to interviewing and in personalities.
- y-c-o-m-b 6y agoYeah I agree. You'll have better luck if you just go to indeed and apply for something that interests you. My most awful interview experiences have been from the jobs I've applied to on HN Who's Hiring or Stack Overflow's jobs board. It's clear the kind of people they're looking for are the hardcore CS types and not the casual (but highly experienced) business application developers. Also - sometimes you just need to get your foot in the door somewhere that's not too picky and caters to what you're looking for but pays slightly lower than what you want. Then prove that you're actually as good as you say, so you can ask for a raise. I did exactly that with my current employer. After 4 months of being there and proving myself, I asked for a 35K pay raise (about 27%!) and got it almost instantaneously.
- johnx123-up 6y agoApart from Indeed, are there any better job sites?
- y-c-o-m-b 6y agoHonestly I've had such good luck with indeed that I haven't bothered to look elsewhere. I think there are some competitors like Monster and Glassdoor. I've heard good things about LinkedIn, but I find their platform to be extremely intrusive so I personally avoid LinkedIn altogether.