Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions

Re:Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions by heavyset_go on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:40PM (#24913708)

I'm curious as to whether other roles and industries see a similar signal to noise ratio. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are just applying to every job that's listed in their current location or where they want to live.

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Re:Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:19PM (#24913955)

Recruiters and LinkedIn make it worse. LI has some very spammy features they sell to recruiters, based on keywords and tags.

I'm a native Swift developer, with over 30 years' experience programming Apple devices, but I have also written a lot of PHP (backend) stuff, and Web sites.

A few years ago, I spent a few months, learning Android, and decided I didn't like it, but I do have Java and Android Studio in the mix.

I often get recruiters, trying to match me with Web design or C# (nowhere in my stack) jobs.

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Re:Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions by halbritt on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:55PM (#24921940)

I spent the first part of my career as a network engineer, moved into management, started doing "cloud" stuff for whatever that means, and have very obviously not been an IC for a long while. Been in the bay area tech scene for over 20 years.

I'll still get pinged by recruiters for a senior network engineering job in Idaho or some such.

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