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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow. Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.

Khan Academy posts here every month because we're growing. I was hired after responding to a post on HN, and since then we've hired roughly 1 full time developer or designer per month. See this months post for more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413910

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Vancouver, BC, Canada

ActiveState Software (http://www.activestate.com/)

Multiple FULLTIME positions open. REMOTE possible for the right candidate.

We are looking to grow our sales and development team on our Stackato private PaaS product.

Rather than repeat the listings, just check them out here: http://www.activestate.com/company/careers

   * Cloud Software Engineer
   * DevOps Engineer
   * Technical Support Engineer
   * Senior Product Manager
   * Sales Engineer
   * Account Executive
ActiveState is the world leader in development, management, distribution, and cloud solutions for dynamic language applications. The company’s products and services for Perl, Python, Tcl and other web languages are used by over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000 to build and run applications from mission-critical to open source projects.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Cambridge MA, Outbrain.com is hiring. Outbrain provides content recommendations on many large-scale Web publishers and blogs. Similarly to Netflix's recommendations for movies or Amazon's recommendations for products, we provide recommendations for content (mostly articles, but also image galleries, videos, and mobile content). We are looking to hire a full-time motivated and smart hands-on developer to help improve our recommendation algorithms. Must have good Java skills. Machine learning experience a plus. Send your resume to jobs@outbrain.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

#134
New York, NY

Coursekit - Software Engineer

Coursekit is looking for more engineers to help bring the best possible online experience to education. If you've ever been forced to use a crappy piece of software because your teacher (or worse, your school) demanded it, you know the pain we're trying to solve. We launched our product for university courses recently, and the reaction has been awesome. (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665657/coursekit-aims-to-overha...)

We are a small and young team, but we are well-funded and growing. We work mostly in/with Coffeescript, Python, node.js, Redis, and MySQL. We don't care whether you have tons of experience with these technologies, but if you're smart and learn fast, we'd love to talk.

We're also looking for a Front-end Engineer, who would be able to help set a standard for our HTML/CSS and help us build awesome experiences for students and teachers.

http://coursekit.com/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

#135
Copenhagen, Denmark

Podio is looking for an Android developer to join our small team in Copenhagen. You'll be doubling the size of our awesome mobile team, and joining one of the best dev shops in Europe.

The challenges are many. You'll need to have a great flair not only for code, but also great mobile UI, taking full advantage of everything Ice Cream Sandwich has to offer. Take a look at our existing apps on iOS and Android and tell us what you think.

If you are interested, apply directly at https://company.podio.com/jobs#android (please mention HN)

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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post #48

Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow. Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.

My employer (LucidMedia Networks) still is growing so I keep posting. Simple as that. I'm not sure how many applicants apply to the companies listed, but I think our application quantity might be lower than average. Could be location (not SF, NYC, Boston), tech stack, low profile . . . not sure. There isn't feedback on the posts. Oddly, we also sometimes get posts from HNers outside the US, but we never advertise for…

As the aforementioned intern I'd like to second this!

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Mixpanel is hiring. We power analytics for huge destinations and process billions of actions every single month. We're looking for engineers: http://mixpanel.com/jobs

Will you be hiring interns this summer?

I'm just about 100% sure Mixpanel is hiring interns. I interned there last year and highly recommend you apply. http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/11/15/internship-stories/ is a bit of a write up of the collective experiences of the interns of last summer.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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We're looking for designers and engineers!

Ridejoy is a community marketplace for rides (YC S11)

We love well-designed experiences, we have a rapidly growing community that loves us back (and loves telling us so), and we're building a marketplace for everyone who's ever needed to get somewhere.

http://www.ridejoy.com/jobs/

We've all been employees at early-stage, venture-backed startups. We know what it's like, so we're generous with the benefits and your equity. (Plus full salaries, of course.) We're well-funded by top-tier investors, and we do things like all-you-can-eat free food, and free tickets and transportation to Burning Man.

We have a tight-knit team and we're looking for people who we can develop a deep mutual trust with. This is not code for "the same as us"; we want to build a team that's more diverse than your typical startup. We understand that a great company and a great culture depends on far more than technical aptitude.

Details: Located in SF. We will happily pay for and help with relocation for the right candidate.

For designers: As the lead designer, you'll be working closely with two engineers who care deeply about the user experience of our product, and want to let you focus on what you do best.

The product is very early, so you'd be shaping it from the ground floor; we want someone to help us build a design culture from the very beginning. Like everyone else we work with, we want you to teach, and to be teachable.

For engineers: Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Coffeescript, Sass, and jQuery, and we're looking to expand into iOS and Android. It's not mandatory to know these coming in; passionate generalists who can learn quickly work too.

PSA: Refer someone we hire, and get a thousand bucks of collaborative consumption credit! You can pick from among Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Grubwithus, Getaround, RelayRides, Tutorspree, Skillshare, and Vayable. Link: http://www.ridejoy.com/jobs/

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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post #48

Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow. Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.

Success story: I met someone recently who found her new job at OKCupid Labs from last last month's HN Who's Hiring thread. (She'd also met her husband on OKCupid, so that helped.)

As a comparison, between Dribbble's (a design-specific community) job board and HN, all of the best designer candidates so far have come from HN.

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