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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by aculver »

robinduckett wrote: post #191
kemayo wrote: post #38

Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA. deviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com ) wants developers. We're fully remote[1]; there's no central office with a devteam located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists. One exception to all that: there's…

I've applied for this multiple times, and as I see here you haven't replied to a lot of people. I've met one of your developers at a DeviantArt meeting, and he seemed like one of the nicest blokes I've ever met. Extreme shame about the management.

This reminds me of something the CEO of a fortune 500 company I worked for said during a company-wide Q&A. An employee had mentioned that he applied for an opportunity within the company and never heard back from the hiring manager. The CEO didn't miss a beat, responding: "Let me just say to all the managers in the room, if I ever hear of that happening, you won't be managing in this organization."

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by aculver »

dabent wrote: post #182
dabent wrote: post #111

Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles area) also possibly SF Bay area or other cities, but most jobs are in Santa Monica. TRUECar - Put simply, TrueCar shows consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their area, then guide them to dealers we've certified. We bring transparency to auto pricing and so far we are getting a solid piece of a huge market. We're looking for Python/Django developers, front…

Someone downvoted this? Why?

Not sure, but you got my vote. Love your summary of the company mission. Also, I love that beach. :) Best of luck in finding a good teammate.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by kemayo »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #144
rinnytinny wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note: I've applied to this opportunity before. Did not receive a response. Funny to see it posted again... Maybe they are looking for something different than "PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL"? Hard to say...

Yeah, I've applied there to without any sort of response. My impression was that they either are looking for something more specific than they let on here, or that they have a high turn over rate. Not necessarily bad things, but they might narrow down their employee search by providing more details

Neither's the case. We want what we say... but we're picky, and wind up passing on a lot of applicants. It's a multi-step process, and we prefer to err on the side of passing people up, so there's lots of opportunities for perfectly qualified people to not get hired.

One downside is that we get enough resumes coming in that we don't tend to respond to someone who's rejected at the resume-evaluation stage.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by deckster »

Portland OR - DECK Monitoring (Full Time Position, On Site)

We build energy monitoring software primarily for the solar energy industry. Our mission is to increase the production of solar energy plants around the world, as well as facilitate their development.

We are hiring front end developers who are interested in creating compelling data visualizations with cutting edge web programming languages.

We don't currently have a position posted for this job on our website, but I wanted to post here before the thread got too old. Please contact us through the email address on this page if you are interested.

http://www.deckmonitoring.com/company.php

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by electic »

* Viralheat Social Media *

Full-Time Ruby on Rails Developers

http://jobs.viralheat.com/apply/VStldU/Ruby-On-Rails-Develop...

Full-Time Senior C++ Engineers

http://jobs.viralheat.com/apply/Pg1hp8/Senior-Software-Engin...

Full-time iOS and Android Developers

http://jobs.viralheat.com/apply/XsZ6uE/Senior-Mobile-Enginee...

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by samstave »

kjackson wrote: post #149
rinnytinny wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note: This company usually does not respond to applicants. I applied for a few positions over the year and never heard back.

I applied to Twitter and the HR person asked me for dates for phone interviews, and then didn't respond for weeks after I gave them the dates. Twitter HR and their recruitment process is amongst the worst I've ever encountered. Also, if you get rejected by them, they don't have the common courtesy to let you know, even if you try contacting them. Apparently it's beneath them to respond with even 140 characters.

I went through several rounds of interviews that seemed to go well, and was asked "when i coukd start" - i had to follow up with the internal recruiter several times before I got the "we've decided to take this position in a different direction" rejection.

I found something far better though, thankfully. My impression from the interview process was internal chaos, among other things.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by mkramlich »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #88

Freelance to hire, iOS and Android development, with a focus on mapping apps. All brilliant engineers considered, regardless of skillset. We raised $45K from angels and won a $25K fbFund grant early on (2008), and we're now profitable from sales of apps and royalties from software licensing. We had a killer summer, which is the season for our apps, and we were featured in a slew of press: http://www.gaiagps.com/press…

> All brilliant engineers considered, regardless of skillset.

More folks should have this attitude.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Post by pyre »

robinduckett wrote: post #191
kemayo wrote: post #38

Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA. deviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com ) wants developers. We're fully remote[1]; there's no central office with a devteam located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists. One exception to all that: there's…

I've applied for this multiple times, and as I see here you haven't replied to a lot of people. I've met one of your developers at a DeviantArt meeting, and he seemed like one of the nicest blokes I've ever met. Extreme shame about the management.

I applied to this too in the past, and got to the point where they said they wanted a second interview, but then they said that they 'moved forward with another candidate.' The position is still open so apparently that candidate went no where too.

I will note that at times during the interview process they would say that I would hear from them 'shortly' but then hear nothing for upwards of 3 weeks.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#210

Post by danberger »

kemayo wrote: post #203
JoeCortopassi wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've applied there to without any sort of response. My impression was that they either are looking for something more specific than they let on here, or that they have a high turn over rate. Not necessarily bad things, but they might narrow down their employee search by providing more details

Neither's the case. We want what we say... but we're picky, and wind up passing on a lot of applicants. It's a multi-step process, and we prefer to err on the side of passing people up, so there's lots of opportunities for perfectly qualified people to not get hired. One downside is that we get enough resumes coming in that we don't tend to respond to someone who's rejected at the resume-evaluation stage.

Yeah but you should still at least respond to people. I mean, why not? It's a win-win. Candidates at least find out and you look good by showing you care enough to get back to them.
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