On: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

[dep_b]

I landed my current job at one of the absolutely top paying companies through LinkedIn. Meta contacted me a short while ago and while I wouldn't want to work for them they did find me through LinkedIn and it was a serious recruiter directly from them not some third party shady stuff.

It's my #2 source of jobs after TopTal for the last 10 years and comes before word of mouth. I don't think there are any other sources though one guy hunted me down through a YouTube comment which I thought was pretty cool.

[abledon → dep_b]

can you give an overview of what type of jobs you find on TopTal?

e.g.... is it 'migrate our huge legacy databse to Oracle Version X' or, our PhP wordpress site needs a css banner that shows a clock counting down?

Do they pay only if the contract is met or do they pay hourly then fire you if they don't like the results delivered at each sprint?

[dep_b → abledon]

Anything. Legacy to green fields but loads of green fields for me. A lot of startups but also a few well-known names. I did mobile.

After a one week trial you either get hired and paid 100% or rejected and paid 50%. Unless you totally fucked up. The client never pays anything but sometimes they try to abuse it. But >90% good.

Paid every two weeks like clockwork.