[steven2012]

At my previous company, someone walked into our office and asked if we had any openings for engineers. Given that we were hiring anyway, we said sure so we talked with him. Unfortunately because of visa issues we couldn't hire him but if not for that, we definitely would have. It was a case of right-place-right-time, but it definitely was something we talked about for a while afterwards.

[gaius]

My first startup job I literally walked in the front door and asked if they needed a Unix hacker. They interviewed me on the spot. Not enough office furniture so I got a chair and the engineering lead sat on a DEC Alpha he had in his office.