Watch a small child use a computer.

big thanks for what you do. as a nextstep fan, this is the flavor of debian I've always been looking for.

Hey there. I've applied to your open RoR dev position, like, a bunch of times- and have not once even heard back. No rejection, no update, no nothing. Is this offering real? I'd still like to throw my hat in the mix but am not sure what the next step is when there's no feedback loop?

It is real. I am the CTO and co-founder of Aha!, and also personally interview every engineer we hire.

A human reviews every job application we get, but unfortunately we can't respond to them all - we get thousands - but most of the applications are not related to the position requirements at all. I can tell you that if your resume matches what we are looking for then we typically schedule an interview within a few days. I see that you posted this same comment previously. Commenting was already locked by HN by the time I saw it then.

Why do I keep posting on HN? It works. The profile of engineers we have hired for our team, and the sorts of engineers who read HN has a great overlap. There are other things we look at too. Your Github profile is really important: people who contribute to open source have demonstrated their ability to work on a distributed remote team, but even more importantly it gives you a way to show that you can tackle interesting problems in interesting ways.

Why don't you guys at least send rejection emails instead of ghosting people? Seems like that would be the "lovable" thing to do.

I have seen the variation of this question so many times - I am surprised HN does not auto-delete AHA posts.

No, I don't believe this is a real role. There was a reddit thread about this awhile back.

Hello! I've actually applied to your open Rails position several times and never heard anything back. Is there a direct line for this opening, or individual I can reach out to?

I've applied also and same results (or lack thereof). They post the same job every month.

They've posted the same ad every month for around two years now. Look at the post history of the poster.

This is not commented in response to any posting unless I'm missing something?

The post was removed likely due to a ton of downvoting. It was from a company that posted the same job ad every month for about two years and consistently ghosted candidates.

Ah interesting thanks

Same here. Applied many times but never heard back from them.

what company was this?

  Location: CT, USA
  Remote: Yes- preferred
  Willing to relocate: Negotiable
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript generalist, mySQL, AWS, APIs. Honeycomb/Datadog/Sentry/dynamodb. comfortable with trying new things and loves learning! 

  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t9RFu9V1ciFIV-ya9Sf72uk3evjmU1AS/view?usp=drive_link

  Email: mercury 4063 at gmail dot com

About:

I've gone from self-taught to 10 years of experience working in Fintech and would love another similar role that lets me take everything I have learned to the next level.