Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

I wanted to let others know I went through the first and second part of the interview for Code Wrangler and it certainly was one of the more unique ones.

The first part was a Skype text chat that lasted for over an hour. It was not like anything I ever had before. For starters, there is no conversing through voice. I talked pretty much only about why I chose Elixir for a project and explaining a lot about Elixir itself. The interview itself seemed like a test to see how well I knew what I was talking about, could convey information to someone without experience in the tech, and remain calm without getting frustrated about someone questioning everything, etc.

The second part of the interview was trial by fire of taking a WordPress plugin, adding a new feature, and ultimately improving it. If you don't work in PHP or have any experience in WordPress this is a lot more work than you'd expect if you are like me and go to serious lengths to improve it all around. I myself have neither real experience in PHP or WordPress. I was given a week to accomplish this, but strangely enough my contact never followed up with me after I told him I had completed it via Skype until I sent him an email several days later. I did get some feedback, but at this point I had decided on taking a job offer from someone else rather than chance not getting hired after their Trial, if it were to be offered to me, which it sounded like based on the feedback I would.

For the most part, the process left a favorable impression, so don't be scared to give it a shot. I think the roughest part was my contact was not US based, so you can't get responses as quickly.

Kabotip.com - Tokyo, Japan - REMOTE, INTERNS.

We're building Kabotip, a social app where users can tip content for free but receive real money when they get tipped.

Our tech stack is made of Clojure, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, JS, Android Java and Swift, and we're believers in testing and automation. We're based in Tokyo, and are currently considering onboarding interns for engineering and marketing.

We're a founders-only team right now, so we'd favor someone who's not scared of a fast-paced startup environment.

Email us at internships at kabotip.com

imgix (YC S11) | Many Positions | San Francisco, CA | Full-time

imgix is real-time image resizing service and CDN.

We are hiring a few different types of engineers to help grow and maintain our infrastructure. Our service is loved by our customers.

You might have come across us when we wrote about our unconventional choices in architecture:

http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros

We currently power the images behind Kickstarter, Zillow, Unsplash, Bonobos, Bustle, Hotel Tonight, and many more.

If interested, you can read more here:

https://www.imgix.com/jobs

Bloomberg Graphics | http://bloomberg.com/graphics | NYC

We're hiring a couple of Interactive Graphic Journalists. We're looking for people with some combination of data wrangling, design and storytelling skills to making interactive graphics and features for the web. Some of the cool things we put out last month:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-executive-pay-peer-gr...

We use lot of different tools; I think we spend the bulk of our time in d3, illustrator, R or QGIS.

If you have any questions, please get in touch! I didn't think I was qualified for this role when I applied last year, but I've learned a ton working with a talented, creative group. Programming on news deadlines gives you a chance to regularly try out new ideas/techniques and get them in front of millions of people days or hours later in a way very few other jobs allow for. - apearce19@bloomberg.net

http://jobs.bloomberg.com/job/New-York-Interactive-Graphic-J...