Ask HN: Can someone in SV/SF please hire me?

2 pointsby newsvguy12 anni fa4 comments

I moved to SV several months ago thinking that it wouldn't be too difficult to find a job. Yet here I am, after spending several months looking for a job, sending a few dozen resumes and after having a few interviews, with no job found and feeling quite hopeless.

All I wanted from the beginning was to work for a small startup, but what I learnt after having a couple of interviews, is that the hiring process seems to be quite different to what I was used to... For example, we rarely talked about my experience, the projects I have worked on or about samples of my work. It's just a few technical questions, and then the whiteboard; it's hard coding with just a couple of markers (I barely know how to do handwriting anymore!)... I guess I'm used to: syntax highlighting, code completion, documentation, etc. These tools might be making us not so good with just an old plain text editor, but as far as I know, we use them in the name of productivity (really, try a different context: go make popcorn without a microwave oven). If you don't know what you're getting into, you're going to fail and feel like a fool real quick, which will also be the case if you don't practice this kind of problems a lot, and/or you don't have all your CS and technical knowledge very fresh in your mind.

I'm running out of time, so I decided to write this plea for someone out there that could help; all I'm looking for is a humble job where I can do coding for a living. Right now, I'd say I'm better at doing iOS development, but I'm familiar with Android, JavaScript, and Python; I also know SQL, and the usual JSON, XML, HTML, CSS. Can someone please give me a chance? I really need something right away.

Thanks.

2 comments

jcr12 anni fa

You should put your contact information in the 'about' section of your HN profile since you didn't give any way to contact you.

On the first of every month, the HN user "whoishiring" makes a few job related submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

"Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366

"Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970372

"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970405

The first two above might be good for you to find work, and the last one is where you should add your info.

Good Luck!

newsvguy12 anni fa

Thanks for the links! I made a post on the last one, but I guess I'm a little late for this month?

I actually tried to include links in the original post, but no matter what I did, I would always get the "keep your message under 2000 characters" message (and the text wasn't longer than that). It wasn't until I removed the links that I was able to post.

davidpaulkrug12 anni fa

The richest people in the world look for and build networks. Everyone else looks for work. --Robert Kiyosaki

newsvguy12 anni fa

Very true, I definitely have not been doing that at all, and at this point I don't even know where to get started.

Thanks.