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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by localhost on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:48AM (#23429172)
+1. I found my most recent hire at Microsoft this way. She was the top performer on my team and continues to do excellent work at the company. Also it’s important to choose your project wisely as well. I wasn’t looking to hire anyone in particular. The recommendation came out of a casual conversation with the creator of the open source project.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by andreygrehov on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:00PM (#23430010)
I'm curious, how does the interview look like for these people? Do they still have to go through all the coding/system design rounds?
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by localhost on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:58PM (#23430716)
It would be the same as for anyone else. I also recused myself from her loop to make it as impartial as possible.

She got the job on merit. That's the important thing here.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by matt_s on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:46PM (#23430548)
I also would assume and sincerely hope the stupid tests around "can this person write software?" are eliminated when you have people on the team _using_ software the candidate wrote.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by katsura on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:20PM (#23431031)
Not at google: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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