Re:Ask HN: How to Find a Developer Job with a Felony?
by qohen on Friday June 27, 2014 @06:32PM
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The best way to find a company that hires directly is to simply assume that they will all hire directly, if you find the right person to talk to.
This may be beyond obvious, but it can help to network by going to technical meetups[1], conferences and the like. You may not meet hiring managers, but you'll meet your peers who may know of open jobs at their companies and can help you get interviews.
[1] I don't know how things are in Orlando, but every week lately I've been getting emails from Meetup.com about yet another new technical meetup group that is starting up in my general area. One would hope that you can find some that would be relevant to you.
I had to quote this one for emphasis because a lot of engineers actively disbelieve it, to their detriment. Ditto "All tech companies are actively hiring engineers all the time. You will never waste appreciable amounts of their time getting in touch with a hiring manager and offering to chat about the possibility of working together."
Incidentally: a company's best performing employees very rarely come from their outsourced recruiting pipeline. If you come from outside their recruiting pipeline, their prior expectation of how good a candidate you are may be higher just as a result of that fact.