Things I was asked to do while job hunting

Re:Things I was asked to do while job hunting by xyzelement on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:25PM (#26764277)

I can see how that could be true although seems silly to limit your inbound opportunities that way (my last 2 roles came via a LI reach-out so I am biased)

What has been your path that landed you amazing highly paid roles and why do you think you're not missing out by not hearing from a broader set of companies?

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Re:Things I was asked to do while job hunting by toast0 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:48PM (#26764477)

Went to a small college in Milwaukee cause I knew someone going there on IRC and they had low admission standards.

Got my job at Yahoo Travel via Topcoder referal (before LinkedIn existed). Worked there for seven years. Got many many many spams from LinkedIn to my yahoo-inc address when people uploaded the corporate address book and LinkedIn wouldn't let you unsubscribe without making an account. Made enough to pay a mortgage on a bay area house with a single income.

Got recruited to WhatsApp by Brian Acton who was breifly my boss's boss at Yahoo. Worked there for not quite eight years. Made enough to retire comfortably.

Could I have been more highly paid? Probably when I was working for Yahoo, I got a bigger salary when I moved to a startup. I doubt I could have found anything better post 2014 though.

If I was looking now, I would probably look at selected company's hiring pages and/or through niche sites like HN's who's hiring etc.

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Re:Things I was asked to do while job hunting by xyzelement on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:53PM (#26764508)

Excellent story! My strategy is "the more inbound opportunity the better" so LI is my friend (with plenty of saying "no thank you") but it would be very hard to argue that your approach doesn't work well.

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