- For others in the HN community: Did you find it interesting, or did you use it to find fits for opportunities you were aware of?
I didn't directly participate in any way, but I did find it interesting. Particularly in opening up the thread and doing a search for "Austin" or "C++" or "Ninja" to get a general feel of how the job-seeking hn community is represented in various vectors. I could see myself actually using it in the future (both to find candidates or potentially find work in the future)
- For everyone: Outside of the above benefits, what concerns or issues do you see with a thread like this, and would you support some sort of recurrence?
I think it's worth some sort of recurrence. The biggest issue I saw with it was that it seems like it will unfairly generate more interest in the 'top comments', which in a thread like this would ideally not be ranked by anything more meaningful than who responded first. I would like to hear feedback from those who were listed far down in the thread as to how their experience was, compared to say 'jader201' who says he had a great experience with it (but was within the top 5 most of the time)
I also noticed there were essentially 3 kinds of posts. Purely "mini resume" posts, posts with "this is who I am", and posts with "this is what I'm looking for". I'd be curious as to how different tone resulted in different responses.
- For everyone: Outside of the above benefits, what concerns or issues do you see with a thread like this, and would you support some sort of recurrence? I think it's worth some sort of recurrence. The biggest issue I saw with it was that it seems like it will unfairly generate more interest in the 'top comments', which in a thread like this would ideally not be ranked by anything more meaningful than who responded first. I would like to hear feedback from those who were listed far down in the thread as to how their experience was, compared to say 'jader201' who says he had a great experience with it (but was within the top 5 most of the time)
I also noticed there were essentially 3 kinds of posts. Purely "mini resume" posts, posts with "this is who I am", and posts with "this is what I'm looking for". I'd be curious as to how different tone resulted in different responses.
Interesting experiment!