In general, I'm curious if people replying to this thread have had success with applying to HN "Who's Hiring?" listings. At my previous job, at a small company (~50 total employees), posting in those threads was by far our best recruiting tool. While we filtered out a lot of uninspiring resumes, we also responded quickly to people who seemed like a reasonable match.

If I were looking, after exhausting personal contacts from previous employment, that's where I would head next.

This is one of the great secrets of the internet.

I've been on both sides of using HN to find work. It's just sooo good.

I've had the best response rate from the Who's Hiring thread, had about seven phone screens and two or three full interview courses (from contacting in regards to ~10 positions from 2018 to 2020). I haven't applied anywhere since Covid began though so not sure if recent trends are different.

Most of it has become US-only over the past few months.

Is your expectation that people are proficient in Rust already or are you hiring generalist senior engineers who can pick up Rust?

Also want to know this.

I am quite positive what you are describing would still be a fit for us. Feel free to send me a message.

Do you have another contact channel for those of us without telegram?

Isn’t telegram free? If you’re interested why not just sign up? This isn’t a good first impression when you’re trying to get hired.

you can email me at [email protected]

> lookout for senior rust engineers

Interesting how companies have trouble hiring for hyper specific tech that they might abandon in a few years. Then what happens to these "rust engineers", do they get laidoff for the next hiring of "X engineers".

any reasonably good eng culture recognizes that the language is often the least important aspect of engineering a solution.

A rust engineer that knows why the borrow checker exists and can safely do unsafe operations likely will do fine in C,C++, Go, Java and many others.

That was before. Now they can pay attention to even the least important things.

I am constantly seeing one job posting in the past 6 months looking for Elixir engineers that already shipped production code...

As someone who did this for "low-latency min-allocation Java", the answer is that I have the need for this X now but I'm confident they can adapt to whatever comes later. The truth is that anyone on my team can become proficient in this given time, but I'd rather get someone who can juice the machine by showing up with existing knowledge and we'll all get ahead faster with them. I wouldn't fire someone in order to get this person for various reasons (some obvious, some not).

> rather get someone who can juice the machine by showing up with existing knowledge

This doesn't feel like a sustainable way to build engineering org. You only get N chances for such 'juicing', what do you do when you need to juice but don't have open headcount. You have to come up with a strategy for that anyways, so why not implement ' want juice but no headcount' strategy and expand your hiring pool.

I've also found that people who sell themselves as "Rust/SAP/Java engineer" seem to have a huge bias against anything else which makes sense since they've built their careers selling themselves as experts in a particular niche.

There is a niche of Rust SAP Java engineers? Wow :)

yes its the next big thing.

We're a small prop shop. I don't need to do sustainable in the way you're thinking. And I think we might be speaking at cross purposes. I want someone with a skillset. I'm going to hire them for that skillset. That doesn't mean they only have that skillset but that's the thing that provides utility.

oh got it. Thank you for the clarification!

Some part of the answer here is that we aren't a company that only works on our own products or research - we have a bunch of client work as well. But yes, "low-level" language could be used here as well.

Do you have more info about the company and job?

Rust and telegram lead me to believe it’s a job in crypto.

If you have another way to get in contact other than telegram let me know. I’m not looking, but I’m a senior rust engineer and have others in my network who may be interested.

you can emal me at [email protected]

This is the impression that I'm getting from a lot of these posts and what I've heard and experienced on my job hunt. I'm seeing plenty of "I was laid off from Meta/Google..." etc posts and can't help but wonder what the comp was. Maybe the big names on resumes look like high price tags these days?