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I think it would be naive to assume "person that knows all about hacker news" = "great candidate". It could be argued spending too much time on hacker news is

I think it would be naive to assume "person that knows all about hacker news" = "great candidate". It could be argued spending too much time on hacker news is not what you want in your employees. Back to the main point, the real issue I have is they are too busy to write an informative job post actually encouraging people to apply, to me that isn't respectful of your audience. They wan't someone to join and be a part of their team, do they really want to start the conversation like this.

Mz 15y ago
It could be argued spending too much time on hacker news is not what you want in your employees. That doesn't really make sense to me, personally. Check the leader board. Almost everyone on it appears to be an extremely competent hacker. (Though I think at least one is an extremely competent lawyer.) I personally generally hate job listings. I think they all make little sense. I work for a large company and I find the job postings there completely unfathomable. It's one of the reasons I am still stuck in an entry level job: The job board at the company I actually work for is almost completely illegible to me. The last job I applied for I only applied because a senior manager clued me it was a job on her team and encouraged me to apply. I didn't get it but I at least had some fucking clue where it was, who it was with and what it entailed, information I cannot ferret out from the official postings. (Note: I still didn't know what it paid, information I would have liked to have.) I think most job postings completely suck. Is this worse suckitude? I don't really know. I just don't think there is any reason to conclude that it sucks "because they are arrogant".