Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)

  Location: Canada / New York
  Remote: Remote OK
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: Python, Django, Javascript, iOS, ML, LLMs, Distributed Systems
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/personjerry/
  Email: Click my username

Previously at Facebook, Dendron (YC W21). Engineering leader with 9+ years of experience at both FAANG scale and at startup intensity. I also still build systems and touch code every day so I can IC as well. Primarily looking for opportunities in NYC or remote US, but there's many cities I love. Currently in some conversations with big tech and considering competitive options :)

  Location:     California
  Remote:       In-person sometimes
  Technologies: Full Stack Engineering, payments, UX
  Resume:       https://definite.dev/mibake/resume

You know what’s great about SVGs? So many things! I can share the highlights, on the spot, in under 60 seconds.

If you hired me and asked what’s great about SVGs, I’d say: “They’re lightweight, work well on all devices; you can draw or animate them based on dynamic data with precision.”

..

I can develop a quick demo to show everyone, complete with estimates for finishing a milestone project in that fashion.

You know about APIs? Of course you do. Know about portals, secure forms, databases? I do that. Mostly in PHP, some Python...—and I’m game to program in any language, with occasional access to the Lead Dev.

Interfaces -- accessible, fast-loading, thought-through, tested, secure, pleasant, effective. I do a lot of that too.

The checkout part of the shopping cart, financial data dashboards, the payments mechanics of the business, the lasting emotional response of a successful purchase…. I do that too.

If you hired me, you would never see from me a cryptic, free-writing response to the “what’s great about SVGs” prompt like this one; never ever:

They’re great for watching your insider information come alive via a visualization that’s built to scale, that’s built to scale, and easy to share. The quantity, quality, patterns, and movements of value and knowledge are visualized with shapes and timelines, calculated to exact measurements, maintaining it’s ratios when the screen size changes and when the web traffic goes exponential.

Phew. I'm a professional. https://definite.dev

Hi, I'm looking for a low profile sort of job. Something other than working with an agile team on a customer-facing project.

I would prefer less sexy work like maintenance, support, tools, one-off tasks, scripts.

I do like working with people, I like to support internal customers such as analysts, business, scientists, etc.

I prefer to be in office, but if geography doesn't work out remote is okay too.

Very flexible on comp, for a good fit. Flexible on contract vs. employee.

Location: New England Remote: Acceptable Willing to relocate: Negotiable Technologies: Python, RDBMS, web tools and APIs, scraping, big data Résumé/CV: Upon request Email: tmf at bsdmail.com

I'm just a rando reading through this (and the mirror "Who's Hiring") thread as usual to keep an eye on current trends but if you're looking for recommendations feel free to read below. If not, best of luck on your journey and I hope you have a merry Christmas!

I'd say it's pretty hard to get an idea what or how good you are for a certain job. You do list a few technologies but, beyond that, there's not really any example of why someone should bother reaching out to you specifically for a task even if they were reading for an Elixir/Python webdev. Perhaps another direct link to either a traditional resume (can trim away the personal contact/identify info if you'd prefer, since it's a public posting) or a direct link a collection of past projects you think would be relevant example output to a job you'd take (and nothing else in that particular link, that way it's easy to quickly scan through). Nothing against throwing your personal side out front, if you feel that's the easier way to approach things I'm not one with experience in those areas to recommend you do any differently, but convincing the hiring/recommending individual you've got some technical chops in what they need to be worth taking the time to reach out to could possibly benefit. Doesn't make it easy by any means, but hopefully a nudge in a helpful direction :).