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Comment by dudul | Hacker News Reader

First, five is not that many.

Second, if the only interviews you get are "whiteboard coding", and the only rejection is "not a cultural fit" you may not be interviewing in the right place. Not all places want you to be a 10x engineer who's gonna work 80 hours a week.

I'm surprised you encountered this behavior in larger companies. You said you got introductions from your friends, I assumed you interviewed there. I would try to get more constructive feedback through your friends to really know what's going on.

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I agree, five isn't that many. I meant it more like "I've only gotten five, even with all this work."

I don't know where else to apply and interview. I've worked all my connections (I don't have many), and spent a lot of time looking around job postings, mailing lists, and local communities to find places that seem right. I have a breadth of tech I can work with and I know that I am looking for small to medium size teams, so I apply to whatever I find that looks like a good match. Do you know any other way to find the right places to pursue?

I've tried to get feedback but have been unable to get anything useful. I have also tried to ask the people I know at those companies for any inside info, but nothing has come from that either.

Have you tried some of the recent recruiting firms?

  1. triplebyte.com
  2. interviewing.io (disclaimer: investor)
  3. hired.com
  4. agoodengineer.com (disclaimer: advisor)
  5. angel.co (not a recruiting firm, but close enough)

I tried Hired and Indeed Prime and got accepted, but got only one response. It is still active, but they are very slow to get back to me. I wasn't aware of the others, so I will look into them. It seems that many of these only work in SF and a few other areas though, which is unfortunate as I don't want to move if I can avoid it.

Thanks for the tips though.

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