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That seems like a good signal to track.

Btw does anyone ever get hired from the who wants to be hired thread?

I’ve been contacted through who’s hiring a lot, though ultimately I was hired at a company where I knew the team well and was aligned with their goals/methodology/comp/etc.

I have the impression that who’s hiring is an excellent place to put yourself out there, though. I had a lot of exciting leads (a few of which I still follow because I liked the people I interviewed with and what they were building).

Yes. I think of 5 people I contacted over 3 years, one got hired. (and it was a very successful hire)

I’ll balance it out because you’re getting selection bias with how you asked this question.

I never got contacted. For me, I assume it’s because every employer in SV is overloaded with candidates and doesn’t need to seek them out on HN. (I work in the bay)

I did. My first "real" job (as in not an internship). Two and a half years and counting.

Edit, found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038518#24042409

I got hired from that thread, for what it's worth. Love my job.

Adding one more voice to the chorus: I got my current job from posting in the who wants to be hired thread.

(It was about 3.5 years ago in my case, but presumably it still works today.)

I was contacted by several people (including 2 YCombinator startups) in the past. In the end we didn't close with any of them, but they were good "leads". And for one of them I made a friend/acquintance in the other side of the world (I'm in Mexico, he is in Australia) which I think is cool :).

The few times I posted, my email got scraped and I received some offers which were all not job offers..

This was my experience as well. Not a single real inquiry, just spam. I asked the mods to delete my posts on those threads and the spam email vanished

hiring posts can be edited without timelimit. also i would put the email in the profile, then you can removed it from there any time easily. i also 'obscure the address as name at domain. never got spam despite posting many times.

But you were awash in “hrony MILFs,” Vi@gra, and mortg@ges, right?

> That seems like a good signal to track.

It doesn't take into account who currently has a job.

Anec-data but I found this site via a friend who frequented here, and he had previously gotten a job with a start-up via one of those posts.

He rapidly left -- maybe 6-9 months? -- but got a job nonetheless.

I got my current job via a post on Who's Hiring. The company is wonderful, and it turns out the past 3-4 newest engineers were also hired this way!

It would also be interesting to know the reverse question: anyone ever got a job from who's hiring thread?

Yes, but it was 2019 and I think the thread I posted in maxed out around 100 total comments.

I've received several responses from Who Wants Hired posts.

+1 for current job being from that thread

I did.

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