I'm just curious to know the effectiveness of this. I have got some sales emails after I shared my details on who wants to be hired. So wondering if anyone's got a job through these monthly HN posts ?
I hired two part time people from one of those threads. In my experience, they produce the highest quality candidates that traditional job listing sites.
Yeah I did once. Cmd+F "Toronto" saw that 500px had some nice offices downtown contacted them. I didn't really care to work with Ruby/Rails and Go was mildly interesting. Anyhow I did have a follow-up phone chat with the CTO who got me interested enough to come in, meet the Platform team, so I did the whiteboard and Redis/CRDT interview test which was pretty reasonable or representative of the type of work that would be done. I still wasn't entirely sure if I'd go for it, but my other pending placement had a hiring freeze so went with the startup and I was sure glad I did and got hooked on startups for the next long while.
I recently took a new job after posting to a "who wants to be hired". They had previously posted the position on "who's hiring" thread, but they did not list remote-only as a possibility. If they had, I would have applied sooner, but they probably did not want to offer that to just anyone.
If you have a unique set of skills that are in high demand, I recommend putting yourself out there. Be sure to use an anonymous forwarder that you can later disable, as I also received a fair amount of spam during the window between posting and getting hired.
Five years myself. I submitted about twenty five applications, got to the final stages in six and got two offers, one of which I got my current job from.
Usual recs apply, job spec tailored resume, cover letter, etc.. No network use until I had to submit recommendations.
I recently facilitated a hire off of a “who wants to be hired” listing. I’m a consulting engineer and showed a client a couple of ads I thought looked promising. The SWE we hired is excellent and the client saved a chunk of cash that would have otherwise gone to a recruiter.
I tried to explain to my client that even though anyone on the Internet could sign up for and use HN, there is in fact a fair amount of exclusivity just because you have to know about the site.
I had a few interviews, worked with some project-based, now working full-time with another, all from these HN threads. By far the best way I've ever tried!
I search the job posts. I don't think full remote is a good fit for me right now. My geographic area gets very few posts, like just 1-3 per month (Philly area). So I haven't found anything I would be interested (or qualified) to do.
Yes, I got a job at a startup that was a great fit for my interests and skill set, which I never would have found otherwise. The signal to noise ratio seems strong from both perspectives.
Yes. I almost hired someone I met from “who wants to be hired”. Unfortunately they took another job which I imagine they got from the same post that attracted me.
