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That seems like a good signal to track. Btw does anyone ever get hired from the who wants to be hired thread?
by bilsbie 4y ago
That seems like a good signal to track.
Btw does anyone ever get hired from the who wants to be hired thread?
- nati0n 4y agoI got hired from that thread, for what it's worth. Love my job.
- alain94040 4y agoYes. I think of 5 people I contacted over 3 years, one got hired. (and it was a very successful hire)
- red-iron-pine 4y agoAnec-data but I found this site via a friend who frequented here, and he had previously gotten a job with a start-up via one of those posts. He rapidly left -- maybe 6-9 months? -- but got a job nonetheless.
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- steve_adams_86 4y agoI’ve been contacted through who’s hiring a lot, though ultimately I was hired at a company where I knew the team well and was aligned with their goals/methodology/comp/etc. I have the impression that who’s hiring is an excellent place to put yourself out there, though. I had a lot of exciting leads (a few of which I still follow because I liked the people I interviewed with and what they were building).
- ativzzz 4y ago+1 for current job being from that thread
- bryanlarsen 4y agoI did.
- hnrodey 4y agoI've received several responses from Who Wants Hired posts.
- newbie578 4y agoThe few times I posted, my email got scraped and I received some offers which were all not job offers..
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoBut you were awash in “hrony MILFs,” Vi@gra, and mortg@ges, right?
- matttb 4y agoThis was my experience as well. Not a single real inquiry, just spam. I asked the mods to delete my posts on those threads and the spam email vanished
- em-bee 4y agohiring posts can be edited without timelimit. also i would put the email in the profile, then you can removed it from there any time easily. i also 'obscure the address as name at domain. never got spam despite posting many times.
- bradlys 4y agoI’ll balance it out because you’re getting selection bias with how you asked this question. I never got contacted. For me, I assume it’s because every employer in SV is overloaded with candidates and doesn’t need to seek them out on HN. (I work in the bay)
- amelius 4y ago> That seems like a good signal to track. It doesn't take into account who currently has a job.
- Lichtso 4y agoI did. My first "real" job (as in not an internship). Two and a half years and counting. Edit, found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038518#24042409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038518#24042409
- nfriedly 4y agoAdding one more voice to the chorus: I got my current job from posting in the who wants to be hired thread. (It was about 3.5 years ago in my case, but presumably it still works today.)
- SCUSKU 4y agoI got my current job via a post on Who's Hiring. The company is wonderful, and it turns out the past 3-4 newest engineers were also hired this way!
- xtracto 4y agoI was contacted by several people (including 2 YCombinator startups) in the past. In the end we didn't close with any of them, but they were good "leads". And for one of them I made a friend/acquintance in the other side of the world (I'm in Mexico, he is in Australia) which I think is cool :).
- Letter4742 4y agoI did.
- raydev 4y agoYes, but it was 2019 and I think the thread I posted in maxed out around 100 total comments.
- ginger_beer_m 4y agoIt would also be interesting to know the reverse question: anyone ever got a job from who's hiring thread?