<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: iwangulenko</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iwangulenko</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:27:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=iwangulenko" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Show HN: Verysmall.site – vibecode single page websites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this is a "dropbox moment" - "hey you can just ftp ssh into a server why would you pay for an app tod backup data";<p>supercool, simple and fast to use ,good job</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:52:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189386</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Why LLMs still have problems with OCR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Resume parsing is a problem for decades,<p>and even today it can never be done right<p>because SOME resumes are just so f** up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 07:12:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981105</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a recruiter for many years and previous as a programmer i can tell you that my gutfeel says that might work</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:45:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39429642</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39429642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39429642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Finding a new software developer job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems everyone spams in recruitment; one of the reasons why it's such as shitshow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:31:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39347683</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39347683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39347683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Finding a new software developer job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recruiter here on Switzerland's market. All I can say is: Don't apply for jobs online. We get spammend like there is no tomorrow.<p>Instead, find the hiring manager on Linkedin and their email on hunter.io and directly reach out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344485</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tech recruiter here with 8 years of experience running a recruitment agency and I have seen 1000s of people negotiating salary (in Switzerland).<p>I wouldn't never recommend doing what the author suggests, namely: "I’d prefer to discuss the details of the offer over e-mail."<p>The phone is always better. Busy business people such as recruiters prefer it. Especially, because nowadays everyone hides behind text. Only the phone or an in person meeting gives you the chance to really hear what is possible compensation-wise and then really get what you want.<p>Btw I wrote this guide years ago: <a href="https://iwangulenko.gumroad.com/l/5-salary-negtiation-hacks?layout=profile" rel="nofollow">https://iwangulenko.gumroad.com/l/5-salary-negtiation-hacks?...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:55:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274188</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: How do you know it's time for you to quit your FAANG job?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tech recruiter here in Switzerland with ~10 years of experience: People quit their teams/bosses, rarely do they quit for other reasons, like compensation or brand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:45:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39092601</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39092601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39092601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: What EU country has the highest developer salary?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have EU passport (blue card not enough, really have to have a EU PASSPORT, like a Polish or German one) then Switzerland is easy to move to because it takes part in the "free movement of people" - if you want, send CV to the email in my handle and i hook you up with fitting firms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:56:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405957</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "GPT-4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One could argue, GPT passing exams says more about standardized exams than about GPT.<p>Wittgensteins ruler.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35156766</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35156766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35156766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Why is remote work seen as a gift?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Looking at benefits like that, it boggles my mind that companies are pushing back on remote work"<p>it boggles the author's mind because - likely - this person hasn't *ever* run a company or paid people with their own hard-earned money.<p>Everyone works better when in a physical room doing the same thing. True in the gym, in the library, at work, anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722353</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love this and it is true that trust is higher here, also lots of (high value) things are sold on tutti (ebay / fb marketplace of Switzerland), yet the country becomes increasingly a "normal" European country and trust decreases, also regarding salaries, self promotional plug: <a href="https://twitter.com/iwangulenko/status/1618865433108688896" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/iwangulenko/status/1618865433108688896</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:44:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34544300</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34544300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34544300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Happy to see a Swiss online retailer on HN, where the audience is more US focused.<p>Amazon has little traction in Switzerland still.<p>Swiss people like to support local businesses, hurray!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:23:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34543866</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34543866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34543866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tech recruiter here in Switzerland; sadly, I can only agree. Ageism is a big problem no one talks about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797885</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "The first minute of every phone call is torture now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tech recruiter here from Switzerland, and our mobile coverage is probably one of the best in the world.<p>One of the things I hate most is that I often can't hear people.<p>Selling people jobs on the phone is stressful enough, but extremely annoying if I don't get feedback whether the person even heard what I said.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:03:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33432551</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33432551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33432551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>well done as usual julian, keep going</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:42:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054613</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: Engineering Job Market in Switzerland?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been a coder in Switzerland and now I run a tech recruitment agency: <a href="https://coderfit.com" rel="nofollow">https://coderfit.com</a> - I focus solely on Zurich and surrounding regions.<p>1. Engineers are similarly in demand as everywhere in Europe<p>2. I'd say the "cost of living" to "after tax salaries" ratio is unbeatably good<p>3. 100% remote work: not that popular; why would I pay you 130k CHF remote when I can get someone in Ukraine for $50k?<p>I had cases where firms wanted a Swiss (German speaking) person  and they paid 140k CHF for fully remote but this was an exception.<p>Ping me for any further questions: iwan@coderfit.com or better just cold call me: +41 77 986 9000 (I am on any messenger app like Signal, Whatsapp etc.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:49:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998209</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quatico.com | Lead Frontend Frontend Engineer (German C1+) | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: ~130k CHF | 3 days/week in the office | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders only<p>We are a 20-person team building tailored web apps with heavy custom business logic on the server. Our products are analyzing the weather data in Switzerland, hold governmental portals online, keep trading dashboards humming, and do much more.<p>Clean code is our passion. Yours too?<p>Our interview process:<p>1) Phone screen with our CTO<p>2) Two sessions of remote pair-programming with our engineers (no algorithmic questions but reasonable pair-programming tasks).<p>3) Onsite half a day with us.<p>Interested? We'd like to hear from you:<p>iwan.gulenko atsign quatico.com - Please use "HN" in the subject line to help us filter out spam</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 07:00:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427387</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: How short is too short for brief job stints on a resume to you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi, Iwan Gulenko (<a href="https://linkedin.com/in/iwan-gulenko" rel="nofollow">https://linkedin.com/in/iwan-gulenko</a>), tech recruiter from Switzerland here.<p>In every culture it's different. In Switzerland, three stints of less than two years at companies is already a "Nogo".<p>In your situation, I would throughly ask why the stints were so short; maybe there are good reasons like the companies went bankrupt without any fault of the applicant, or maybe there is another specific reason that makes it more likely that they stick around with you, e.g., if you use a tech stack they love.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:04:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166897</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Iwan here from coderfit.com<p>Joining Can: lovely to see a Bern-based firm at YC and on HN!<p>Finally, we get access to a cool startup offering FIRST before Americans/everyone else!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2021 07:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27791719</link><dc:creator>iwangulenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27791719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27791719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iwangulenko in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quatico.com | Frontend (React, English OK), Solution Architect (German C1) | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: 90k-130k CHF | ONSITE | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders only<p>We are a 20-person team building tailored web apps with heavy custom business logic on the server. Our products are analyzing the weather data in Switzerland, hold governmental portals online, keep trading dashboards humming, and do much more.<p>Clean code is our passion. Yours too?<p>Our interview process:<p>1) Phone screen with our CTO<p>2) Two sessions of remote pair-programming with our engineers (no algorithmic questions but reasonable pair-programming tasks).<p>3) Onsite half a day with us.<p>Interested? We'd like to hear from you:<p>iwan.gulenko atsign quatico.com - Please use "HN" in the subject line to help us filter out spam</p>
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