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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

17 points by Riphyak ↗ HN
A. Recruiter

B. Job portal (which one?)

C. A referral (from a friend or co-worker)

D. Sent resume to the target employer

E. Direct outreach from an employer

F. Other

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harveyramer
C. A good friend knew the CTO at the company and recommended me.
ragnarkon
C. Wife's childhood friend's husband.
noduerme
In 2005, I answered a craigslist ad and got a job for $12/hr photoshopping decals for tourists at a kiosk at a mall. 12pm-8pm. The kiosk owner asked me to build a website for him. So I did. His cousin who was starting a new non-tech business saw the website and asked if I could write custom business software for it. I said I didn't have any experience in that, but if he paid me $30k up front and the rest on the back, I'd move to south america and spend a year figuring it out. He did, I did, and now I make $160/hr writing their software, and still have freedom to take other clients when I want to.

The best advice I can give is to never say a job is beyond your knowledge - say you will figure it out, and then mean what you said and figure out how to do an excellent job so you get hired again.

hbcondo714
A + B

I applied to a job posting on Dice that was posted by a recruiter

bspammer
F: I went to a careers fair and had a chat with the CEO and an early employee. 2 years later, we’re a 100+ person company :D
mjrbrennan
F: Saw a job posting from one of the founders on Twitter. Almost didn’t apply but then I did and it all worked out, best job decision I’ve ever made!
muzani
B. Job portal. Funny enough I applied on two sites without realizing it. They accepted me quickly from one, and rejected me from another.

I've had a 100% ghosting rate from that other portal, including the company that hired me. That portal even sent me a rejection email once, while I was in interviews with the company.

JulesRosser
F: Emailed the company after seeing their post in a HN: Who's hiring thread
shoo
in reverse chronological order: C; A; B; B; B.
sloaken
A / E - A recruiter for a contract firm found me, and rented me to a client. The Client decided he was tired of having contractors and offered me a job.
ryanchants
A. And I'm currently using A for my next role(though maybe not with Who's Hiring happening in a few days)
2rsf
Sent Resume to target employer through a Job Portal (LinkedIn)
cddotdotslash
F. They acquired the company I founded. Now I work for them.
Jugurtha
C and D. I applied on the job portail and sent an email. Ten minutes later, I got a call from the CTO. He sent me a test. I saw the file was a .tar.gz file, and I liked that.

Other employers replied, asked how much I was getting paid (which I declined to answer), proposed they pay more than whatever I'm paid at my crurrent job, which I replied to that it was generous, but that I liked where I worked. I had given up an offer in the energy sector that paid soooooooooo much more, as in ridiculously not even funny more, to get that job. I'm still there.

high_byte
makes me happy to hear people like you do what makes them happy, not more money.
Jugurtha
Well, if it makes you happier I've declined many, many pay raises at the company to manage its finances, reduced my salary so others get paid, and proposed I go without it at times. So did a couple of colleagues.

I remember the then CTO and cofounder, who quit about a year and a half in, telling me that's all they could pay. I couldn't prevent the thought of "Awww, I want to build a mitherfucking organization out of this" from crossing my mind. For now, it's a unibrow like myself, not a multicorn yet. We'll get there.

codingdave
C/E - I actually had quit my current job a few years ago, because I was no longer interested in working for the guy who my boss at that time. Literally the day after he left the company, they called me and asked me to come back. So I did.