Who got hired from HN?
We have who wants to be hired posts, I'd like to know who got hired from those.
I got hired to be an analyst for a MLB baseball team off of a HN post like 7 years ago. Because of HN I have 2 world series rings! Life is very strange but I'll forever be grateful for that Who's Hiring post.
I met the CEO of a startup a local Hacker News meetup.
I joined his company as employee #8 in a (non-technical) role I wasn't qualified for, in an industry I didn't know existed, leveraging a technology I knew nothing about. I didn't have any accomplishments but a few failed startups, but he thought the hustle I demonstrated was all I needed to be successful in the role he was hiring for.
Fortunately he was right.
1. We scaled to 200 employees in 4 years bootstrapped.
2. I got to work on problems you only get access to 15 - 20 years into your career
3. Very cross functional role working on sales, biz dev, product, legal, support.
4. Raised a few rounds and got acquired for a lot of $.
5. The company was acquired 6 years after I left, but I had 10 year options that had less than 6 months left before the expiration date.
The company experienced a lot of growing pains around year 3/4 that caused me to leave (along with some mistakes I made along the way), but I only look back at the experience with fondness.
Absolutely incredible experience.
I got hired from a "Who's Hiring" post back in 2012 to a very famous, then pre-IPO company that absolutely changed my career trajectory. It prompted a move to SF, followed by NYC. I got to be a part of a "big tech IPO". I got exposed to incredibly smart people and cutting edge tech. And made some money to boot. It put a giant "stamp of approval" on my resume and opened up doors I could only dream of previously.
HN is a wonderful place full of opportunity.
I've also hired ~3 people from those threads, now that I'm in a position to do so. They've all been excellent hires (though be prepared for some resume spam in your inbox if you have a post that catches people's eye)
I also met the guy who ended up building my custom dream home (from which I sit as I type this) via HN.
In 2018 I was hired as full-timer number 13 from an HN thread. I stayed there for 4 years.
The company was 90-some people when I left. We posted in the HN threads every month, but as far as I know, I was the only one hired from HN. One time I asked someone from HR about it, and they told me that we only got a very small number of responses from the HN threads, but that they were generally high-quality candidates, and that it just never worked out. In at least one of the cases we tried to hire the person, but he ended up ghosting us (I remember that one because I interviewed him... and now often notice his username in the comments).
I joined a YC startup from an HN post, which was in some ways a great experience, and in other ways was terrible. A real mixed bag.
I still keep in touch with some of the people I worked with there and it was honestly some of the best quality people I've ever been on a team with, unfortunately the founder decided to shark everyone technical at the company after we hit a major milestone early letting go the CTO and everyone on my team, including me, and at the time I was traveling (with the company's encouragement). They stranded me in a foreign country with no severance and no working technology (no phone/laptop). I eventually sorted things out with them, and I hope they continue to succeed as I have no hard feelings, but it was definitely one of my wilder startup experiences. Just to clarify, it was definitely an issue of incompetence, not of being malicious, they had no formal HR function and just really handled things badly out of ignorance rather than a desire to cause me harm.
The experience was actually key to why I decided to stop being an engineer and become a product manager instead, so in that way it was a massively necessary moment in my career to get to where I am today. That said, I'm not sure if I'd repeat the entire experience.
I totally did, and am thankful to HN for this.
I posted on the Who Wants to be Hired?
Had someone reach out to me from a very cool company and ask if I might be interested in joining them. Interviewed... Found out the guy who hired me was really looking for his new boss... now I run the Platform and Data Engineering groups at this company, and he's one of my directs, and we are having an immense amount of fun. Landed in a company with an incredible mission (Software for Youth Sports), and couldn't be happier.
I got hired from a Who's Hiring post last year. I doubt my experience is the standard but I landed at a really terrible company. Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways. The culture was extremely toxic as well. I have since moved on to a nice new company I found through my network.
Sample size of one, obviously, but back when I was in a position to hire I absolutely checked those threads each month and reached out to people that seemed like good matches. Never got any responses that I can recall, though…
For a variety of reasons job seeking via HN is a decent fit for me: I prefer to work for smallish companies, I have modest ambitions but a pretty strong resume, and remote work suits me.
I’ve posted a a few times on “who wants to be hired?” and despite explicitly ruling out full time work, I’ve gotten some decent offers. The last time I posted a little over a year ago, things worked out and I was hired.
I got my current job by posting on a "Who wants to be hired" thread in 2019.
To be fair, though, I was only contacted by that one company (and like 2-3 spam emails) so I wouldn't really count on HN as my main strategy.
On the other hand, I'm Mexican and HN is very Silicon Valley centric, so maybe people from the Bay Area get more replies?
I did, I applied to a start-up with 2 people in 2018. I was hired as engineer number 1. Worked there for 2 years and left right before the series A investment and the team had grown to 35 people.
It was a pretty good experience.
I did. I was looking for jobs in the US while living half way across the world. My then boss posted on HN without HRs approval. When they found out they made a big issue about unauthorized job postings on a website they've never heard of. But I was able to reach out before they made him remove it
Skipped most of the HR process thanks to speaking directly with the HM. Had a Skype interview which was pretty awkward, they left a single laptop in an empty interview room and people came in an out to speak with me as if it was a physical interview. It worked out great
I love HN. For me, this is the best online space to be. Among reading interesting content and amazing comments, HN helped me to make my career international.
In the last two years, I worked for 3 companies outside of Brazil. These were the first professional and international experiences of my life.
The first experience (Nyxt browser) is simply the best team I have ever worked with. The last experience is the current one which I am also very grateful to have. I particularly enjoy interacting with folks from the Bay Area, a place I have never visited but I dream about going one day.
In the middle, there was also a short project for a British company that I also got from the “Who is hiring thread”.
These experiences dramatically improved my family savings and exposed me to people that would be very hard to meet in my daily life.
Also, the first and last experiences are on the lisp family - which is a niche. It would be hard to have found them without the thread.
Thus, thank you very much, HN! My gratitude goes to those that run the website and to the community :)
I chatted to a Facebook engineer at one of the early HN London events back in 2013, got talked into sending through a CV and I've been with ... Meta ever since.
Very grateful to this community as it had genuinely never occurred to me to apply to work for big tech. Which is obviously dumb, I've been obsessed with the industry since the early 90s, a good reminder that goals and sense of possibilities can be surprisingly blinkered by our environment/culture.
In 2012, I joined a YC startup, which we sold to Instagram, and then stayed there for a year, left to start my own thing, joined YC with that, and have been doing my thing thanks to the YC network ever since.
I owe my entire career to HN.
HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wants to be hired and ask people to apply who look like a fit too though.
I'm an independent contractor and I tried for a few years to apply to the announcements on HN.
It was generally a bad experience (no reply or bad interview process).
BUT... a few years ago I randomly applied for a very niche job I would have liked and spent 1 year doing some pretty amazing stuff. The company got a nice exit too (alas, I had no stock).
So, I don't think HN ads are pointless, but they are pretty random just like any other recruiting platform, etc.
Oddly, I found the next job on LinkedIn at a big corporation! Lower pay, of course, but interesting (to me) domain.
I got hired ~1 month ago as a software engineer by a startup based in Switzerland in one of the “Who wants to be hired?” post. I was unemployed for 6 months before that, couldn’t even imagine that I could get a decent offer on here to be honest.
I responded to one post on here 6 years ago and was hired as the second employee of a startup. There are about 50 of us now. We post every month or so, but don't get much traction. I believe I am the only person hired from HN.
I got hired ~3 years ago by a small Clojure startup. Both the CEO and the CTO reached out to me and said: hey, we use one of your OSS libraries, would you like to talk maybe?
I got hired from a "Who's Hiring" post about 5 years ago and it's been an amazing experience. I've been able to work on interesting problems without having to deal with a bunch red tape as I had become accustom to in previous roles. I also got to go through a successful IPO which has been incredibly gratifying.
I later found out that the company doesn't regular post to those threads and someone did it on a whim which made me feel even luckier for having happened to come across it.
Then, early in the pandemic when lots of companies were laying people off there was a thread for companies still hiring. I posted something and we got a ton of applications but sadly none of them panned out. Later I was talking with some coworkers about how we all found the company and someone mentioned they found it via HN. Turns out it was actually my post and I just didn't realize someone had gotten hired from it which was pretty cool.
I got hired in 2019 from a "Who wants to be hired" post. After looking around via recruiters and not finding anything I liked I clicked with the company that found me on HN almost immediately.
Not only have I enjoyed working for them up till now but they have been by far the best company I have worked for in my career. There have been multiple times when they could have done nothing or said nothing where they went out of their way to do the right/good thing. Some of those things wouldn't have made me angry, they would have just been neutral but instead they went out of their way to do right by me. I'm very thankful for that.
I've also been reached out to at least 3 times based on comments I've made (not from hiring threads). They were all interesting offers but I turned them down as I was happy where I was and more interested in my current job.
I searched job listings from HN “Who’s hiring” posts with some third-party tools, filtering to only show me jobs where they were looking for people with experience in my favourite programming language.
I read through the job listings and contacted the ones that seemed interesting.
Among them was a company of whom I am a customer, and who I like.
That company ended up hiring me and I’ve been working for them as a contractor for 11 months now.
I hope that I can stay with them for several years :)
I got hired from HN years ago from just chatting to people here – I believe this was before the monthly who's hiring thread even existed.
Since then I've had less luck on here. I've put my details into the "who wants to be hired" threads several times without a single email. I'd genuinely be shocked if any employers regularly go through those posts to be honest.
The "who's hiring" threads have been better... I've applied for a few jobs through those over the last decade and had 2 or 3 interviews, but those roles never quite worked out for one reason or another. I don't see a huge amount of value in them anymore though – I tend to find more interesting stuff to apply for from just browsing Linkedin and job boards.
Been posting in the "who wants to be hired?" and the freelancing posts for more than a year. Just have got three mails - one asking for a price for a project, and they bailed when I asked for details and mentioned a standard freelancing rate; other wanting me to do a project and asking me to wait for them to complete information to begin, but it's been months; and the latest, someone (a scammer?) offering to get me a position in a startup but by receiving a 10-15% cut (or something like that) of the salary.
But I still have to try, maybe someday I can get lucky.
I know a lot of people that will only use HN for that post alone. Don’t know if you’ll get a true representation here.
Sub-question: who landed their job from one of the "who's hiring" posts
I got my current job by responding to a "Who's hiring" comment. It's by far the best job I've ever had.
I did about a month ago from last month’s post. I was in finance before and had a few offers from finance companies, but I had an offer that stemmed from last month’s post in a totally different field that seemed better. Very happy with it.
Indirectly, in a way. A few months ago, I built a small site [1] that parses and structures the "Who is hiring" posts using GPT. It was/is just a personal project to deepen my actual experience in building things with LLMs [2]. After the launch [3], I was actually contacted a few times for LLM-related projects. I am not looking for a full-time job at the moment, but it led to a small consulting/contracting engagement.
PS: The site is still up. Some people think it's a nice alternative interface for quickly skimming the "Who is hiring" posts.
[1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com
[2] https://marcotm.com/articles/information-extraction-with-lar...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259897
I got hired off of a HN thread a few years back. Worked on an open source message queue in Go for a year or so before lay offs hit. Overall, I’d do it again, HN is a solid culture fit litmus test apparently.
~10 years ago I was living in Iran and was hired as a contractor in a US company.I was being paid using Bitcoins (due to sanctions).
Yes - 5 years ago I had my own small startup building Shopify apps. The business wasn’t growing as fast as I’d have liked and so I was taking on part time contract work on the side. I responded to a job post here on HN from a YC company, and ended up doing a little contract work for them. They liked it and they came back a few months later to see if I’d join them full time to lead the product eng team. I considered my options, and what I liked about the opportunity at the startup was that they were building in a similar space as I was with my business, except better capitalized and further along. I took the job and have been with the company 5 years now. As with any startup, it’s had its ups and downs, but overall it was a good decision for me and I have no regrets. And I owe it all to HN. Thank you HN!
I used to post every month for my previous company. The candidates we would get were always junior and low quality: this was likely due to our description and target market. I don’t recall hiring from one of those posts. We did however hire quite a few terrific engineers from workatastartup.
We are a software agency that specializes in cross-platform mobile development and caters to both American and European markets. Our tech stack is robust, allowing us to deliver top-notch solutions to startups and software factories that require additional resources to scale their team.
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React Native, Flutter, Ionic, NextJs, Ruby on Rails, Nodejs, AWS
Email: hello@metalabs.software & marco@metalabs.software
Web page: https://www.metalabs.software/
I was offered a job in Munich I think in 2014. Unfortunately, the Cost of Living increase to be expected from living in Munich didn't stack up against the increase in salary.
A pity maybe, it would have allowed working with Clojure.
I got hired 3 times thanks to HN, all in very different ways! But they add up to most of my career:
- In 2014~2015 I released a CSS library (Picnic CSS), which was fairly rare back then, and reached the front-page of HN. Through that post I got contacted by a US dev offering me very interesting freelancing work! That also made me realize I could make in 1 month of international work what would take 3-4 months of a local job through the degree I was studying. We collaborated in multiple projects.
- In 2019 I joined Standard AI through their announcement in the monthly "Who is Hiring?" in HN. TBH it was amazing work, we had a great small dev team in our location and I learned and grew a lot. I've done some of my most challenging (in a tech level) dev work there.
- In 2023 I joined Keeper through HN's "Work at a Startup" program where I had created a profile. It was the only time I've been contacted from a company through the program, but magically it was just when I was looking for a new job so it was a pretty good match. So far it's been pretty good!
In 2017 I was hired through HN (although it was through "Who's hiring"). It was for an internship at a startup in a different country. Later that startup got acquired, and then the acquiring company went through its IPO.
I'm not sure if I would have been invited to interview without it (no MIT or Oxford on my CV), so I am glad it existed.
Now that I am posting on "Who is Hiring" for the company I founded: we see high quality applicants for engineering roles.
I met a co-founder on HN in January 2014. I saw his post about a product that was right in my wheelhouse. While technically it wasn't a hiring post, I ended up joining the company (which was just him at that point).
4.5 years later we had an exit. Not a massive one because it was a seven-person company with a rather niche product for professionals, but a good outcome for everyone. Thanks HN for enabling this interesting trip!
I got hired at Modest from this HN post[1] in 2014 at 115k salary. Made my career. I had been working at McMaster-Carr as my first job for almost two years and was ready to go some place where I could learn a ton. It worked out pretty well.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162605
I posted as a bit of an outlier on a few “who wants to be hired” threads. Haven’t been looking for a full time job but to “meet new people” via part time contracts if possible. Posted like … 4 times … across the years … got contacted twice by interesting people but it went nowhere.
Can’t complain considering that I’m not looking for a full time job, I guess.
I was hired this past January off of a Who's Hiring post! After 6 months of unemployment no less. Also, 3 of my current teammates were also hired the same way. At least from what my manager has said, apparently the people applying via HN seem to be higher quality. Of course that's anecdotal, but do with that what you will.
I was hired from my post a year ago. In a stark contrast to sites like LinkedIn or Indeed, it was almost exclusively company owners, or engineers on the team responding to my post. Whereas LinkedIn was mostly recruiters who sent generic spammy messages.
The company is great, my colleagues are great, and I owe it all to HN. Thank you HN!
I got hired after reaching out to a company (the known as Dopamine Labs) that hit the top page, but it wasn’t one of the monthly threads - one of the founders popped into the discussion with “AMA” so I asked if they were hiring. Took a couple months (December, you know how it goes) but that was a great gig.
Have my absolute favourite job from a cold response to a cryptic HN "who's hiring" post.
They used HN because they wanted hackers, and they did a lot of hiring from FOSS projects, creative endeavours, anything demonstrably self-driven. Working for peers whose skills, intelligence, and ethic I respect means I take a fully moralized approach to my daily work. The mission is pretty standard other than being super high performance, but the people make it an absolute privilege to be here.
If I ever had to explain this handle it would be that the creative urge is an engine that needs an exhaust stroke to keep going, and so I write, but nobody asks. We just all know we read posts here. Hey co-workers, I'd never say it in chat because being meta wrecks flow and vibes, but you're all pretty cool.
Got hired two different times, found consulting clients and also made several IRL friends through here.
Thanks HN!
Years ago I was relocating to the Bay Area for personal reasons and asked someone I knew if he had any recruiter recommendations. He didn’t, but he was a YC founder, so he posted my details in a corner of HN reserved for them. I woke up to quite a few emails in my inbox, and one of them ended up being a match. Learned a ton from being employee #3, after the two founders.
I think I generally have a more skeptical view of HN than most others posting in this thread, but the value and uniqueness of parts of this community isn’t lost on me, especially with that personal experience.
My last job hunt I interviewed at around 10 places, and I think 5 or so came from HN posts. I ended up taking a job from a non-HN post, but found basically all of the HN hiring posts to be more transparent in the initial contact to interview phase.
Getting interviews at other companies involved more networking, i.e. finding an actual person to contact or reference me first, before getting the interview. On the HN posts I more or less just emailed the person listed on the HN submission and had an interview shortly after
(Had about 8 YOE at the time in full stack dev, for context)
I was pretty skeptical that I'd get any traction, but I ended up connecting with a co-founder of Flat (flat.app), and within a few weeks I was on the team!
I am really grateful that I ended up giving it a shot as it's been a great experience so far - I have sharp coworkers who are eager to share their knowledge and generous with their time, I get exposure to all aspects of the product, and the impact of my work is visible and immediate. Best of all, we use our product to make our product, so I get to directly enjoy the fruits of my labour :)
I was pretty skeptical that I'd get any traction, but I ended up connecting with a co-founder of Flat (flat.app), and within a few weeks I was on the team!
I am really grateful that I ended up giving it a shot as it's been a great experience so far - I have sharp coworkers who are eager to share their knowledge and generous with their time, I get exposure to all aspects of the product, and the impact of my work is visible and immediate. Best of all, we use our product to make our product, so I get to directly enjoy the fruits of my labor :)
After moving to the UK in 2016, I found my first job in London via Who's hiring. I formed deeply meaningful, very strong relationships with some of the amazing people I was fortunate enough to meet there.
I got hired last 3 times from HN posts in 2012, 2017, 2018. Still with the last company, it has been an amazing opportunity. I fully expect next time to be through HN again. Thanks HN!
I did, more than once. I’ve also hired many from those threads. I find it’s still my best source of quality candidates. LinkedIn stands out as particularly terrible.
So looks like 30 people got hired from a decade of posting both threads every month ;)
As someone said here still a better Signal to Noise ratio than elsewhere
I did. Just beginning of 2023. I saw the post on Who is hiring thread, then I contacted the head of engineer (my current boss). After some rounds of interview, I accepted their offer. Good decision so far. The company is great.
We are still looking for backend engineer. Join us https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791719
I've been on both sides and have gotten mixed results. But the SNR is higher than all the other places which is just wading through floods of bullshit
I emailed a startup from a "Who's Hiring?" post 2 years ago to see if they would hire Canadians, since the job post was interesting to me. It was fairly early stage, and I ended up accepting their offer. They made a great effort to accommodate hiring outside the USA. Still with them 2 years later, and it's been a great experience so far.
I got hired from posting to a HN thread. Sadly the company shut down, but it was worth the experience and I met a couple of cool guys.
Not directly what you asked, but I've hired two people as a result of HN's who's hiring/who wants to be hired posts.
I got my current job from HN who's hiring. They helped me move to a new country and I've been here for almost 4 years now.
Almost did. I posted on Who wants to be hired, a company reached out, we did a few interviews. I think they were happy with me and might have hired me, but I eventually decided against joining them because I wanted to stay where I currently leave and work on free software instead. And I found such an opportunity at this time.
I did, for a Frontend role. Was fun, but now I'm seeking UX design roles and they're a bit rarer here! All good :)
Submitted title was "Ask HN: Who got hired?" and the submitted text referenced just the "who wants to be hired posts".
I added "from HN" to the title because people are responding about lots more than just ""who wants to be hired" and I think the more general question makes the thread more interesting.
Not from a specific thread, but an HN user mailed some of the leaders list in 2014 asking if they wouldn’t mind spending a little time to review their new jobs board. Of course, they’d pre-filled it with scraped jobs, one of which was for GOV.UK. Applying for that specific role was the best career decision I ever made.
I got hired at two separate a small PHP web dev shops from "who is hiring" posts. I worked at each for about a year. I've had a few other job interviews from those posts too. In fact it's been the single most successful method of applying and getting jobs I've ever had.
I got hired at my current employer, FullStory, via a comment that I posted to a "Who wants to be hired?" thread
Additionally, I know of two people at my current and maybe three at previous employers who found us via comments I've written on "Who is hiring?" threads and were subsequently hired.
I found my first startup job out of school on HN in the 2010s. I moved on to another role within a year though. The work I did is still visible online—an ode to Tufte :)
I also used to post job posts here for another company and I think we may have hired or at least interviewed someone, but I can't quite remember
I also got hired/contracted a couple of times from HN (I'm usually posting to the Freelancer thread as well). I have good experiences from HN. It's also good for networking. I got to know ppl who wasn't a good fit but after talking they referred to to someone who needed my help.
I used HN to find an internship that helped launch my career eight years ago. In my most recent round of job searching, I've used it to find a few great companies as well.
The quality and response rate of the postings on here tends to be quite high, which is a refreshing deviation from the norm.
I was hired from a "Who's hiring" post!
I was able to join a great company with an incredible tech team and get a pay raise. When I interviewed with the CTO, they seemed happy that I heard about the roll on HN. I later found out they post on the who's hiring posts monthly.
I got an internship a few years ago off a Hacker News who's hiring post. It was pretty cool because I was a sophomore international student so I wasn't having much luck anywhere else. I now recommend it to anyone else I see looking for a job.
My previous role was from a posting I read here. I was searching for a few keywords (remote, Python), saw a short post that outlined briefly about the role and the projects. A few calls later, I was part of the team and stayed there for a couple of years.
A year ago, I wrote a long reply to someone's post, sharing my thoughts about hiring design agency vs. freelancing designer (such as myself). I got two long-term customers who found this post and contacted me after that. Thanks HN!
I found an excellent job during the pandemic in fall 2020. A handful of interesting folks reached out after my "Who Wants To Be Hired" post. One of them clicked especially well. It became the best matching job I ever had.
I did, as my first job out of college back in 2020. I was there for a little bit and set up some of their early infrastructure before moving on. The company shows up every once in a while here so it seems like they’re doing well :)
not specifically from a hiring post, but i was hired in 2020. however, it was about a year after a prototype project of mine made it to the front page here.
had some other legit/promising inquiries and interviews prior and after this as well.
I got hired multiple times not through applying but from the freelancer post.
I did! It was glorious! I was a bored out of my mind DBA in Oregon and shot my shot at a logistics startup who was posting here on HN located in Hamburg and I got the job! This was 5 years ago.
I saw a tweet about a job from somebody I followed because I knew them from HN, and got a great job because we already knew each other from what we'd both written and discussed on HN.
I regularly engage in freelance assignments through HN. I have found most of these clients to be serious and committed professionals / businesses who value my work, and pay on time.
I did back in 2010 by a local startup. Saw a post here, attended a local user group to meet the hiring manager who posted it. Had a job offer about a week later after an interview.
I got hired here for my very first job as a software engineer last year and I'm still working at the company. I'm going a year plus now and it's been awesome.
I got hired after seeing a post by an early YC company posting a position. It wasn't a "Who's Hiring"? or "Who wants to be hired"? post though.
I've found maybe 3 or 4 jobs from HN, including some well paying consulting work. It continues to be one of the highest signal to noise ratio places out there.
I got a consulting gig a few years ago, which is what I wanted.
Never even heard from anyone on those posts. Stopped posting.
I was hired as a founding CTO a few years ago from a HN post. Without going into detail, the company grew, exited, and I'm still working for them.
I flirt with the Who's Hiring threads all the time. One day I may apply to one, looks like interesting problem spaces in far off places.
Scrapped emails from "Who is Hiring?" posts, sent an email to all and got a lot of responses and found a nice company in San Francisco
I have had the fortune to find a job through HN and, later, to hire people who found my company through HN. So the system definitely works :)
I was hired at a US govt job I found listed on HN a couple of years ago. Didn't work out but that's not HN's fault. ;-)
I got hired at a startup posted here in 2011. I also hired someone from HN a few years later.
I wish I could say me, day 72 post-layoff. Not even a single interview yet with hundreds of applications, sigh.
I got my job at Meta a few years ago after seeing a post here and connecting with one of the hiring managers.
I joined a startup incubator via Who's Hiring and stayed for 6 years. Great learning experience!
I have and am still working there. Fairly kismet situation; found a very bespoke opportunity.
I've gotten several very good clients from the freelancer/seeking freelancer threads.
Got my very first work experience from one back in 2014, interned with them twice!
I was hired from from one a little over three years ago. Still my current gig in fact.
I was, in 2015. And now I'm at a startup with some people I worked with there.
I have, back in 2019, by the only startup that I applied to.
100% success rate lol
I've found two pretty awesome freelance projects from HN.
I was hired from a "Who's hiring" post!
I got hired from one about 8 years ago. It was cool.
Not directly from HN, but HN helped me get the job
My last two jobs were from Who is Hiring threads.
I got hired. About three years ago. Thanks HN.
I landed 3 jobs from here starting from 2014
I did once and I liked where I ended up.
I got hired from there about a year ago
Twice in the last decade. Both REMOTE.
I had networking HN founders share my info roughly 10 years ago.
Who is the most senior person here to be hired from HN?
The silence is deafening.
So I guess HN is on a death spiral too, when submissions like this get 100+ upvotes in 4 hours. There's a lot of people that want to know how to signal properly to get a job here. That never bodes well.
Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Dang should delete this submission.
Also, I've expressed this before, but in case Dang is reading this: HN needs to ice new users for much longer. A week or two until they can submit a post, a month or more before they can upvote.