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Ask HN: Success with hacker news jobs

22 points by matt_the_bass ↗ HN
Employees: Has anyone found a job and been hired via HN jobs?

Employers: Have any of you found employees via HN jobs? How does that source compare to other job advertising boards?

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hectormalot
As an employer I've had a bunch of responses from earlier posts on the monthly HN jobs thread. However, most of these have been very generic, and I think most of them were automated. Out of ~70 people we hired last year, I think we hired only one via HN.
pc86
Automating submissions to Who's Hiring comments makes sense, especially from the HN crowd, but I'm surprised more of us aren't smart enough to realize how bad of an idea this is.
segmondy
Hey, at least you can tell that the person can program and is down for automating things and not doing everything manually.
pc86
And that they don't care enough about finding a new job to take even 10 seconds to write a two-line email asking a question about the position.
jnmandal
Yup, I found my current job via HN who's hiring.
JshWright
~6 years ago I hired someone from the HN hiring thread. A little over a year ago I found a new position myself from an HN hiring thread (and my aforementioned friend/colleague joined me soon after).
xur17
Found my current job via the monthly who's hiring post.
probably_wrong
Slightly related: I tried to find a job via the "jobs" tab, but it turned out that the recommended tools (Triplebyte, Work at a startup) don't work outside the US. For a place with such an international audience, that surprised me.

As for the threads, I didn't find anything in my area. So no.

matt_the_bass
I’d like to clarify that I’m asking about the YC jobs list not the monthly who’s hiring.