Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by lsiunsuex on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:23AM (#18725625)

So the next report / analysis needs to be:

Of everyone who asked for work or applied for work via these posts - how many secured a position?

I've long given up on these posts trying to find freelance work or other permanent work. There's to much competition (here) to stand out from the flood of replies.

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Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by jedberg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:27PM (#18728199)

Anecdotally, the one time I posted a job, I had about 80 replies for a remote work junior engineering job where I specified the salary at $60k/yr in the post (this was in 2015). Of those 80, about 10 were promising and I probably would have made an offer to at least one or two if we hadn't shifted priorities and stopped the hiring process.

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Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by Domark on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:23PM (#18729245)

I applied to matching jobs for three months about five years ago. Also did the same earlier this year for three months.

My advice: skip this site and weworkremotely.com. Both are complete wastes of time based on the responses.

If you’re in IT, your best bet is LinkedIn (for a referral) or Careerbuilder/Dice/Indeed. At least those will result in face to face interviews.

Also find companies you like and apply directly on their website.

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