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leenyyesterday at 11:39 PM1 replyview on HN

This is very good advice. Because OP doesn't talk about how to write emails, here's how to write good cold emails to hiring managers/employees/CEOs: https://interviewing.io/blog/how-to-get-in-the-door-at-top-c...

P.S. I'm CEO of a Series A company. I get a lot of email from prospective candidates. I never hold it against them, and as long as it doesn't look like spam, I reply. Telling people not to send emails (I saw a bunch of that in the comments) is categorically bad advice.


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cjyesterday at 11:49 PM

I also regularly get cold emails from candidates. Most often for marketing roles, rarely for technical roles.

Cold emailing definitely wont hurt your chances at the job.

But to be effective, the outreach needs to be heavily tailored and personalized. You need to make it obvious you aren’t copy and pasting the email to 20 other people.

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