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Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?

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I see Hire Me posted every month here, was curious to know what is the success rate of landing a job. If not getting an offer, how many companies approached you?

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"Ask HN: Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468924

"Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330818

I posted in today's thread and have received three emails from companies so far. All in my local area.

I also included my linkedin and have received a few connection requests, but no messages from any of them.

That's pretty cool, and also pretty lucky. I just found I get my email added to a bunch of spam-lists and received contacts from people saying things like "I see you're in Helsinki, would you like to relocate to Canada?"

Body shops always want me to relocate to the Midwest for six months to be a Lotus Notes admin because I developed for it … 20 years ago.

It is very high visibility. I posted in the December job thread and received several responses.

Most of those responses occurred in January just weeks before Covid changes and job losses. I talked with several employers. Instead of accepting a new job I chose to instead investigate employment options with the military which likely proved to be a more stable consideration.

I haven't posted there. I imagine it's similar to the who's hiring thread. I was excited to look through them, but seems the postings are usually for senior dev or higher positions. I'm not qualified for that (at least not in a relevant technology), so it's been a pretty disparaging experience for me.

I look at hire me thread every month but really there aren't any interesting candidates. Pretty much everyone is nodejs/react type and I need to hire people that can build software to last. If I see anyone mention Arc in that thread I will instantly send a job offer

Is your company actually using Arc?

I wouldn't be shocked if most of the people well versed in non-mainstream tech don't bother advertising themselves as being such.

No, Arc isn't actually a good fit for what we are building.

Nice filter. Personally, for engineering positions I only hire a capella singers who play lacrosse :)

I neither do Node nor react. Mostly in Python, PHP and now Go. But I am not a rockstar or Ninja:). I am mostly a generalist.

...and what is your point exactly?

:) Just in case if you ever need my help :)

Your judging someone on the skill set they choose to market in order to make a living. I’m sure there are plenty of let’s say Arc enthusiasts who when they need to pay their mortgage call themselves a Go or React or Python or Ruby developer.

Also yes you can create pretty damn robust apps in React and Node, fwiw.

Define software to last. My personal definition revolves more around best practices than technology choices. Though I wouldnt build a finance backend in node ...

I have been contacted multiple times from HN Hire me threads. I would say the quality of job requirements coming through HN is very good. I ended up doing multiple contract projects with these monthly Hire HN threads.

Saddest part is that if someone declines / folds Your application w/o interview, they are hesitant to provide constructive(good, bad) feedback :/

I've hired off it and found good candidates from it.

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