Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?

[trojanh]

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?

[mtmail]

Related

"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

[infinitybeyond]

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.

[stevekemp]

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?"

[erik_seaberg]

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.

[austincheney]

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.

[giantg2]

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.

[scott31]

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

[quickthrower2]

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.

[pryelluw]

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

[non-entity]

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.

[scott31]

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

[literallycancer]

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

[pknerd]

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.

[scott31]

...and what is your point exactly?

[pknerd]

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

[rasikjain]

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.

[kalvisk]

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

[DegreeChamp]

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