Ask HN: Why is applying for jobs such a pain?

Re:Ask HN: Why is applying for jobs such a pain? by gt565k on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:46AM (#12001935)

If you're applying through a company's website / job portal, you've already lost the game.

You need to network and get your foot in the door through a personal reference.

Try angel list and hired.com (although I don't know if they service the EU).

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Re:Ask HN: Why is applying for jobs such a pain? by samfisher83 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @11:42AM (#12002389)

If you work at a big company even if you have an internal reference they still make you do interviews and stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is applying for jobs such a pain? by ljk on Thursday June 30, 2016 @03:00PM (#12010871)

> Try angel list and hired.com

how is this different than applying on a site?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is applying for jobs such a pain? by gt565k on Friday July 01, 2016 @01:36PM (#12018085)

Angel List is nice because salaries and equity are visible. Hired.com, you can specify what salary you want as well as other things to use as filters. On hired.com, companies contact you, instead of you having to apply. You have 24 hours to make an initial response. If you don't, the contact disappears.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is applying for jobs such a pain? by ljk on Friday July 01, 2016 @02:59PM (#12018795)

thanks for clarifying, but how is this different than applying at bottom of the ladder since the jobs are posted externally already?

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