Hacker News with Generative AI: Job Searching

"Just Keep Applying" Isn't Persistence, It's Insanity (smustafa.blog)
It’s been occurring to me more and more often, lately, that as job seekers, we are told to keep doing the exact same things on a loop.

Job Searching, Career Advice, Productivity

13 points by vipermark7 7 days ago | 1 comments

Candidate uses AI to ace job interview, can't perform job (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Artificial Intelligence, Job Searching, Employment

10 points by suzzer99 14 days ago | 7 comments

UK IT job searching broken (ycombinator.com)
Its been a year of searching, a handful of interviews at best, recent interviews have had disinterested interviewers reading a script and not listening to answers.

UK, Job Searching, Technology, Recruitment

21 points by c7THEC2DDFVV2V 36 days ago | 28 comments

Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? (ycombinator.com)
Hello HN<p>In a short form question: If you do, where do you look for a short time projects?

Software Development, Freelance, Job Searching, Remote Work

224 points by shinypenguin 44 days ago | 174 comments

Show HN: WorkWeave – AI Tinder but for job matching (replit.app)

AI, Job Searching, Dating, Software

10 points by kbeqiri14 50 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Advice for someone who stagnated in their career. Help (ycombinator.com)
But I haven't been able to get in the door anywhere new (corporate, consulting, or funded startup) and I can't figure out why. At this point I don't know who wants to hire someone like me.

Careers, Job Searching, Advice, Networking, Self-Doubt

16 points by justonemore 62 days ago | 11 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

Job Searching, Hiring, Community, Ask HN

180 points by whoishiring 82 days ago | 555 comments

Ask HN: How to passively prepare for a job interview? (ycombinator.com)
Hey there fellow HNers! I am currently at a stage where I am working within a Tech Consulting company for 5-6 years. My plan is to prepare myself well in the next 5-6 months and then possibly start actively interviewing for jobs. How can I do passive job search and interviewing in the meanwhile so that I can setup myself best after few months? I am in a data-science and machine-learning domain.

Job Searching, Data Science, Machine Learning, Career Advice

34 points by rookie123 86 days ago | 13 comments

Directory of job boards by category (remote only, data science, etc.) (jobsearchdb.com)
Find an active job board in your career niche

Job Searching, Remote Work, Data Science

26 points by dougjudytobin 100 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: How to correctly search for jobs on LinkedIn? (ycombinator.com)
LinkedIn appears to be the premier site for connecting job-seekers with job openings, teeming with recruiters and detailed job postings. Therefore I puzzle over why it is so difficult to actually perform job searches there.

Job Searching, LinkedIn, Career Advice

10 points by psim1 110 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: How is your job search going? (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been pretty depressed trying to find a job recently, so I’m wondering how it’s going for you guys. Wanna share your success story? Or are you struggling too and need to vent? This is the place.

Job Searching, Career, Technology, Mental Health

50 points by notpushkin 113 days ago | 51 comments

40+ JackOfManyTrades needs advice for job search (ycombinator.com)
Hi peeps. Living in Germany, have a masters in chemical engineering. After working a few years in my own field, got bored and switched sectors. Then realized I really enjoy learning, getting good at a new position, and then get bored. Was young back then so I kept switching jobs, fields, industries. Have also been working as a freelancer on the side for 15+ years.

Career Advice, Germany, Job Searching, Freelancing

78 points by Reflekt 117 days ago | 62 comments

I automated my job application process (daviddodda.com)
Look, I'll be honest - job hunting sucks.

Automation, Job Searching, Personal Projects

655 points by paul-tharun 119 days ago | 853 comments

Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings? (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,<p>I’m building a job aggregator with a live data platform that provides in-depth market analysis. I’m currently focused on improving how I extract skills from job postings. While my current extraction setup achieves ~90% accuracy, it struggles with edge cases and lacks flexibility, particularly when skills are phrased in unexpected ways.

Job Searching, Data Analysis

8 points by azeusCC 129 days ago | 9 comments

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 159 days ago | 19 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

47 points by Jabbs 161 days ago | 37 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 166 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 167 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 174 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 184 days ago | 21 comments

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

Ethics, Job Searching, Intellectual Property

30 points by interviewwtf 190 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 197 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 202 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 202 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 207 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 207 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 210 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 224 days ago | 0 comments

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

Freelancing, Job Searching, Community

27 points by whoishiring 236 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 238 days ago | 109 comments