I've had some ok luck with the Who's hiring threads, but, what really bothered me was some of the practices from these companies.
One company, allowing remote work, sent me to do a personality inventory without even talking to me first -- which really bothered me. (They're still posting looking for DevOps and Developers in Indianapolis.)
One company scheduled an introduction phone call on the 25th of the month, and then didn't show up on time and attempted to reschedule on the 15th of the following month. (Apparently, they didn't understand "Hire fast, fire faster.")
Finally, one company wasn't up-front or honest about their salary expectations until after I had spent almost a month in their system -- even taking a week off of work to do one of their "trial weeks" only to discover that they were going to offer me approximately 50% less than what I was making now and that they had a standard 'formula' for salaries...things that if I would have known, I wouldn't have wasted their time (nor mine) going forward.
Don't get me wrong -- HN has brought me a lot of great things: context, opportunities, viewpoints, and friends. Unfortunately, the "Who is Hiring" has morphed into traditional HR -- where you send a resume and don't hear back anything from anyone, versus the near-immediate feedback that you would once get in 2012.
One company, allowing remote work, sent me to do a personality inventory without even talking to me first -- which really bothered me. (They're still posting looking for DevOps and Developers in Indianapolis.)
One company scheduled an introduction phone call on the 25th of the month, and then didn't show up on time and attempted to reschedule on the 15th of the following month. (Apparently, they didn't understand "Hire fast, fire faster.")
Finally, one company wasn't up-front or honest about their salary expectations until after I had spent almost a month in their system -- even taking a week off of work to do one of their "trial weeks" only to discover that they were going to offer me approximately 50% less than what I was making now and that they had a standard 'formula' for salaries...things that if I would have known, I wouldn't have wasted their time (nor mine) going forward.
Don't get me wrong -- HN has brought me a lot of great things: context, opportunities, viewpoints, and friends. Unfortunately, the "Who is Hiring" has morphed into traditional HR -- where you send a resume and don't hear back anything from anyone, versus the near-immediate feedback that you would once get in 2012.