Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) by yummyfajitas on Saturday September 04, 2010 @08:14AM (#1662555)

So far I've received 11 emails, but 4 were some variant of "nice puzzle, happy where I am right now, but I'll write to you next time I'm looking for work."

A few more were "I solved the puzzle, but tell me more before I bother to update my resume." Such people are certainly in the right ballpark - if you jump into a puzzle without even thinking about whether you want the prize, that's a win.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) by ratsbane on Saturday September 04, 2010 @09:36AM (#1662661)

Thanks. I wondered if the puzzle might encourage more responses in addition to filtering out the send-a-resume-to-everything ones. The puzzle differentiates you from most of the open positions.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) by yummyfajitas on Saturday September 04, 2010 @11:48AM (#1662875)

It definitely did. I'm working on a blog post discussing this.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) by tocomment on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @10:46PM (#1670845)

Are you replying to people? I sent in the answer on Friday but I haven't heard anything back. Now I'm worried I messed up somewhere. I don't see how though, all the math works out.

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