Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

news.ycombinator.com

141–150 of 208 posts

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#141
post #140
post #137

Google is hiring. I'm in Seattle and I'm specifically looking for "systems-y" people, Google as a whole hires good engineers at any level. http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=why-wa...

Do you have an email address we can reach you at, or would you prefer applications through the webpage?

Feel free to send mail to jbeda+resume@google.com if you are in Seattle/Kirkland and I can get you into the system. Or you can go through the web site.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#143
Hiring? Does that imply a salary? Cause yeah, we don't have that quite yet, but we're working on it.

What do we have? Small, fast, potential insane team going after the temporary staffing / contracting match-making market. It was $86B in revenue last year, a down year, and it's almost entirely offline. It's time to shake things up!

We're in Boston and you need to be to. We code primarily in Rails. The right person will be co-founder with significant equity. We're changing peoples lives. Come build a great company with us.

We're a TechStars 09 company. Have GREAT advisers with deep industry knowledge and major entrepreneurial success under their belts (seriously, rock stars).

Oh, and as this says (http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Technical_Co_Founder_Rails_153...) I'm not another biz guy looking for someone to do the work. Career developer, 4 startups under my belt, looking to turn my focus more towards the fund raising and growing the biz. That's where you come in. Ping me. My email is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#144
post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I figured the room might be a bit too generalist to want to hear 40-50 minutes of crypto flaws, and so I was thinking about wrapping the crypto stuff up in a talk that made a technical case in favor of DRM. If people tell me real-world crypto is going to keep people in their seats, though, I'm totally down for that; it's a much easier talk.

Can we get the two paragraph version of the technical case in favor of DRM now? I'm very curious.

* That the current state of the industry in crypto development is so weak and poorly understood that many of the statements people make about DRM are rooted not in theory but in observations about incompetant cryptosystems, and that when implemented well, DRM crypto actually has a good track record (cryptocard satellite TV, Blu-Ray). I was hoping to use this thesis as a coat rack for a bunch of practical advice about crypto in general.

* That the security goal of DRM is not about absolute platform integrity, but about meeting the commercial objectives of content providers, and that when you relax constraints from "absolutely protecting media" to "making sure titles are difficult to pirate during their new-release window to maximize profit", you get opportunities for interesting approaches to security, like renewability.

* That taken together, these two ideas suggest that DRM is actually a really interesting CS problem, and --- leaving politics out of it --- even if you believe it's destined to fail, it's worthy of study.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#145
AboutUs is hiring full-time developers in Portland, OR.

Most of our work is in Ruby and Scala. We routinely spin up 100+ instances in EC2 to do long-running tasks and are always investigating new technologies to help solve our problems.

If you have questions, you can email me (email in profile) or check out http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#147
post #109

Amazon seems to always be hiring. Give us a shout - this includes internships too. By the way, I did 6 internships total during college, and Amazon was by far the most enjoyable one. If you're a student, apply.

Where else did you intern? I'm curious because I'd like to know whether an Amazon internship would be different or better than my other experiences (Microsoft/IBM).

I have also had a very positive experience with Amazon after doing two internships with Amazon (one of Seattle and one out of Dublin). One of the few companies around that actually allowed me to design, think and be critical rather than just being cast away into some needless intern project. At my school, they tend to hire as many people that meet their bar rather than setting a quota which is probably why it seems that they are always hiring.

I'm comparing to two other internships - two at a theoretical physics institute in Waterloo and two with Bloomberg in NYC.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#148
post #79

Sofa is hiring coders (Obj-C/Obj-J/Python) or ui designers for fulltime positions in Amsterdam.

You guys do great work - we were just talking about you at the lean startup event last night with a team from Holland that's in town to interview at YC. I think there was some kind of friend-of-a-friend-married-a-sister type of connection :)

As a designer, I loved visiting Amsterdam during my honeymoon last year - I felt like I was drowning in a sea of Helvetica. The ugliness of American road signs was an extremely heated topic last night.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

#150

Palantir Tech is hiring for just about every position in the company (we're growing fast). The most YC-relevant positions are probably software engineers -- most of what we do is in Java (with a bit of Groovy glue). Most jobs are at our Palo Alto, CA hq. See: http://www.palantirtech.com/careers http://www.palantirtech.com/careers/positions http://www.palantirtech.com/careers/interviewing Also feel free to contact my…

Were you at SF DevDays? Saw some of your reps there.
Post reply on HN