Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?

Re:Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023? by lylejantzi3rd on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:16PM (#37111932)

For all of you hiring managers out there, what's your opinion on product-focused engineers? Is that a desirable trait? Or would you prefer a candidate who could care less about the product he works on and only cares about the technology?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023? by mzmoen on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:47PM (#37112229)

It’s far too situational to give a blanket answer. I run a 15 person startup, and my preference is product focused people because of the breadth they can cover. However, we have a number of people who aren’t that way and are just good developers, which is great. My sense would be the narrow/deeper technically a space is, the less preference there is for product focus, but again just my personal guess.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023? by schrodinger on Sunday August 13, 2023 @11:16PM (#37117087)

I would think this is more valuable for startups where roles are less defined and less for big companies. Then again I'm at a ~2B company and product-focus is still appreciated and considered in hiring.

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