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samcheng | 9 months ago

I've posted on "Who's hiring" for years now, and hired many engineers from those posts. We reject the vast majority of candidates, and to those who we reject, it might seem like we can't hire "a single candidate." That's not true - if it were, I'd stop posting here!

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daredoes|9 months ago

I was hired by this guy for my first job in Software Engineering after applying via Hacker News in 2018. True story!

owebmaster|9 months ago

> if it were, I'd stop posting here!

unless you (the royal you) are posting it for other motives other than hiring.

s1mplicissimus|9 months ago

Are you perchance gesturing towards stock owned companies trying to improve their public looks by creating a look of growing via ghost job postings?

samcheng|9 months ago

When I used "we" in my post, it's because I don't make hiring decisions unilaterally.