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Has anyone had success with this lately? I once posted a description of the company I work for, stating interested users should apply online. I also offered to

Has anyone had success with this lately? I once posted a description of the company I work for, stating interested users should apply online. I also offered to answer any questions people had via email, which was a mistake. I probably got a dozen resumes from users unable to follow simple directions, mostly from kids in India that were going to finish school in 1-2 years. I also got spam from a few firms looking to fill our positions.

TheMakeA 12y ago
Honestly, I doubt anyone who posts a generic jobs@ or online resume black holes will have any more success than any other recruitment platform. It's a real shame, because the density of smart people on HN is much greater. The key is probably knowing your audience. Personally, I gave up after I shot a few e-mails to jobs@ from here and never got a response. I imagine better hackers simply don't have the patience.
khwang 12y ago
I got my current job from one of these threads! It can work.
st8machine 12y ago
As a student I've had 2 job offers from applying to companies here that mentioned interns.
freyil 12y ago
As an applicant, I landed an interview with Khan Academy and some other companies from these ads. Although, the Khan Academy process involved many hours of mid-day Skype interviews, phone calls, and a relatively time-consuming take-home assignment followed by a curt thanks-but-no-thanks form letter and an encouragement that I volunteer for them. So ultimately not a success. To be fair to Khan Academy, they seem to be part of a bigger trend towards increasingly time-consuming interview processes that span weeks or months. Start-up companies are in the enviable position of asking for higher investment from applicants, while not offering a higher return (perhaps the idea is that the possibility of landing the job should be its own reward -- but wouldn't this be mutually beneficial for both the applicant and the company?). Or perhaps this is the logical extension of a community built on the idea of work-hard-first and (possibly-)get-compensated-later, or "long-term compensation" [0]. Not to say any of this is necessarily wrong or bad. Supply and demand will dictate what the job market can bear, and if a company is receiving a glut of talented applicants, it's their job to thin the herd the best way they know how. [0] http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works

TheMakeA 12y ago

Honestly, I doubt anyone who posts a generic jobs@ or online resume black holes will have any more success than any other recruitment platform. It's a real shame, because the density of smart people on HN is much greater. The key is probably knowing your audience. Personally, I gave up after I shot a few e-mails to jobs@ from here and never got a response. I imagine better hackers simply don't have the patience.

khwang 12y ago

I got my current job from one of these threads! It can work.

st8machine 12y ago

As a student I've had 2 job offers from applying to companies here that mentioned interns.

freyil 12y ago

As an applicant, I landed an interview with Khan Academy and some other companies from these ads. Although, the Khan Academy process involved many hours of mid-day Skype interviews, phone calls, and a relatively time-consuming take-home assignment followed by a curt thanks-but-no-thanks form letter and an encouragement that I volunteer for them. So ultimately not a success. To be fair to Khan Academy, they seem to be part of a bigger trend towards increasingly time-consuming interview processes that span weeks or months. Start-up companies are in the enviable position of asking for higher investment from applicants, while not offering a higher return (perhaps the idea is that the possibility of landing the job should be its own reward -- but wouldn't this be mutually beneficial for both the applicant and the company?). Or perhaps this is the logical extension of a community built on the idea of work-hard-first and (possibly-)get-compensated-later, or "long-term compensation" [0]. Not to say any of this is necessarily wrong or bad. Supply and demand will dictate what the job market can bear, and if a company is receiving a glut of talented applicants, it's their job to thin the herd the best way they know how. [0] http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works