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arches.io
Personal blog · arches.iocareerculture
arches.io is a personal blog at arches.io about career and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Hire Literally Anyone”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about reading job candidates' GitHub profiles, per its HN thread title. The one comment argues for hiring and training under-skilled candidates and does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hire Literally Anyone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-16
What Hacker News says?
Unless you're competitively _desirable_ to work for then your hiring strategy should be something close to: _hire literally anyone you can afford_[0]. This industry too often overlooks the enormous value that can be harvested by training under-skilled hopefuls into fully productive team members. There's often an associated fear that, once trained, the individuals in question will jump ship for greener pastures. The…
Comment linking /2016/01/hire-literally-anyone/
on “Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles”Submitted Hire Literally Anyone as a story · 90 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Is Professionalism as a story · 3 points
HN discussion