Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
A post from &quot;the other side of the table&quot; :).<p>The previous company I worked at, I hired two people through who&#x27;s hiring posts. We pretty much tried it out for about six months as we didn&#x27;t have much luck through the more traditional channels our division&#x27;s HR department used. So yes, there are real positions being filled through these posts.<p>That said, just because it&#x27;s on Hacker News and this is an informal place doesn&#x27;t mean you don&#x27;t need to put at least a little effort into your application. I don&#x27;t think I ever received that many emails in response to a job posting that didn&#x27;t even contain one complete sentence to go with the resume. I seem to remember that I received multiple emails from candidates that contained fewer than five words. The best one was the one that just contained a random link (presumably to his&#x2F;her resume, but I didn&#x27;t need to click on a potential phishing link that badly), no words, nothing else...<p>The two people who ended up getting hired (one a very junior developer, the other one a mid-level developer) wrote informal cover emails that showed signs of intelligent life at the other end of the keyboard, much like you&#x27;d expect from someone trying to apply for a job :).