Ask HN: Has anyone found a job from the monthly Who's hiring on HN?

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.

I’ve never participated in the “Who wants to be hired” posts but I have found two jobs in the “Who’s hiring” posts, one of them being my current job.

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.

Yes we have hired 3 people from our posts on Who is Hiring, and it’s been great.

Only downside is the companies that write in even though we are looking for individuals. Creates a lot of noise.

Yes! One that allowed me to relocate at a time that I very much needed it.

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.

I've gotten a job I found on who's hiring :+1:

Going on 4 years at a company I found through HN Who Is Hiring.

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.

I got my current job through an employee referring me from my Who Wants To Be Hired post ~3 years ago.

Two jobs. One in 2014 (at a YC startup), and the second last year.

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.

Out of the last four jobs I’ve had, I found three of them via HN. With the exception of the non-HN job, each one has been better than the last!

I have! But from the "who wants to be hired thread"

Yes! I'm very grateful and thankful for the opportunity that I have got from HN.

I was nor I'm the best position in my life when the job offer came. The opportunity boosted my confidence really turned my life around.

Yes, I got long term contract roles from ASK HN Hiring thread. It is worth spending time to checkout quality posts and reaching out to them.

I hired 2, both doing super well. Didn't hire 2 (one of which was one of the Peter Thiel dropouts)

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!

Yup, I found my current company (Sourcegraph) through a hiring thread!

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.

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.

Yes +1 from me been at the job 2 years.

Nope. Unsurprisingly, no-one wants a 50 year old Infrastructure Architect despite my jack-of-all-trades skillset. :(

Nope. Just wish the posts would remain in chronological order.

I've gotten a couple interviews. No job though.