Hacker News with Generative AI: Job Searching

Ask HN: How does one negotiate for a remote job? (ycombinator.com)
Asking for a friend who is interviewing right now: for life reasons he would really appreciate a fully remote job. Do you think prospective employers/hiring managers have fixed remote policies or is there flexibility if they're willing to give up some compensation? Is there an approach that is better than just asking directly?

Remote Work, Negotiation, Job Searching, Employment

24 points by singhrac 3 days ago | 17 comments

Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you? (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been laid off since June and have not been getting responses from most of my applications other than denials. I have 10+ years mostly Ruby/React/JS. New just working on a side project (job listing scraper) but curious what is working well for you? Specific apps or strategies that lead to your hiring?

Job Searching, Programming, Ruby, React, JavaScript

44 points by Jabbs 6 days ago | 36 comments

Ask HN: What's your tips and tricks for the job seeker entering 2025? (ycombinator.com)
I, like many people, are entering the job market again and preparing to do a job search.

Job Searching, Career Advice, 2025

11 points by lgregg 10 days ago | 5 comments

Need help to go back to job market (ycombinator.com)
Hi all kind fellow developers, I got laidoff last year as a ruby on rails developer, now I want to prepare for some job interviews. Since I have been traveling and trying all kinds of new things, although I have 5 years of experience as a Ruby on Rails developer, I feel like I forget everything as a developer.. Any book or website that can help me kickoff and make my old memories back?

Job Searching, Developer Skills, Career Advice

14 points by Gabrielwxf 11 days ago | 7 comments

Ask HN: How to get to interview prep and return to work after long career gap? (ycombinator.com)
It seems very daunting and fruitless exercise (fruitless in the sense that why to go for those leetcoding and studying standard design questions that will never be used).<p>I am a mobile/Android developer. There was a general layoff at my last workplace and I was so burnt out I could not bring myself to look for jobs right then. First four months were actually good and I indeed needed that break. Then the delays kept stacking up.

Career Advice, Software Development, Job Searching, Coding Interviews

19 points by w-hn 19 days ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: How is job search going for you? (ycombinator.com)
I left my job in 2023 voluntarily after immense harassment by management for taking paternity leave. I needed it since our baby birth and first few months did not go as we expected. Company had 6 months of parental leave policy but my manager (a woman!) still discriminated. Our baby is fine now and growing well.<p>I took 6 months off and then started working on my own project that turned into a startup.

Job Searching, Startups, Discrimination

27 points by logicalxor 29 days ago | 21 comments

Idea stolen during an interview. What should I do? (ycombinator.com)

Ethics, Job Searching, Intellectual Property

30 points by interviewwtf 35 days ago | 55 comments

A big collection of useful questions to ask potential employers (github.com/tBaxter)

Job Searching, Interviewing, Resources

20 points by kiyanwang 41 days ago | 5 comments

Things I learned interviewing for Staff positions (2020) (amyunger.com)
I recently completed an either 9 month or 2 month search for a new job, looking for Staff-level engineering positions for the first time in my career. I live-snarked much of the process on Twitter and heard that was helpful to some folks who are also thinking about starting their first Staff-level search.

Software Engineering, Job Searching, Career Advice

82 points by todsacerdoti 46 days ago | 79 comments

Ask HN: How long to stay in a role to avoid being considered a "job hopper"? (ycombinator.com)
It really depends on the industry. These are opinions, but for a seat-of-the-pants dev job like a web developer, at least a year is fine, with the occasional longer stint of 3-5 years recommended so it shows that you are capable of having a little patience and can own the full product lifecycle.

Careers, Software Development, Job Searching, Industry Trends

8 points by roland35 47 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: A tool to import and manage "Who Is Hiring" posts (github.com/gabfl)
This application allows you to scrape, store, and interactively explore job postings from Hacker News’s “Who is Hiring?” threads.

Show HN, Job Searching, Hacker News, Web Scraping, Tools

9 points by gabriel_b 51 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Instead of opentowork on LinkedIn, I'm desperate cos it's true (jasonleow.com)
Please upload an image first before you start editing.For best results, please use a square photo (for now, while I fix it).

Job Searching, Social Media, LinkedIn

36 points by jasonleowsg 51 days ago | 8 comments

Tired of getting ghosted by companies? Let's call them out together (ghostedby.club)

Job Searching, Recruitment, Social Media, Community

14 points by kaliades 54 days ago | 14 comments

How well do LeetCode ratings predict interview performance? Here's the data (interviewing.io)
Have you ever wondered if you should spend more time on LeetCode, participate in those contests, or focus on solving harder problems? A popular Reddit post suggests you need 700+ questions and a LeetCode rating between 1800-2000 to pass FAANG interviews. Is this really what the data supports? To answer these questions and more, we looked at our users' LeetCode ranks and ratings and tied them back to interview performance on our platform and whether those users worked at FAANG.

Software Engineering, Job Searching, Data Analysis, Programming

11 points by leeny 69 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024) (ycombinator.com)

Freelancing, Job Searching, Community

27 points by whoishiring 80 days ago | 154 comments

Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews (medium.com)

Technical Interviews, Job Searching, Software Engineering

164 points by mbellotti 83 days ago | 109 comments

We created a new account in Telegram and started looking for a job in Estonia (threadreaderapp.com)

Job Searching, Telegram, Estonia

90 points by toss1 85 days ago | 40 comments

LinkedIn_AIHawk: AI job assistant. Automate applications and Resume Generation (github.com/feder-cr)