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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by jnsaff2 »

urgeio wrote: post #76

BERLIN/THE FACTORY, VARIOUS FULLTIME ENGINEERING & BIZDEV POSITIONS Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now: 1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need fo…

What are the salaries engineers would expect in Berlin in a startup/non-startup company pre/post taxes? Few examples or ranges would be very helpful.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by slicedata »

Slice Data builds machine learning applications for non-technical users to help their businesses more effectively capture and retain customers. We're very early-stage - pre-Series A and just started selling our product this summer - but we already have a good set of customers (Fortune 500s down to SMBs) and hit profitability early on. We're also very fortunate to be backed by some top-tier investors including Andreessen-Horowitz and Sutter Hill.

We've been able to do this while keeping the team small - we're comprised of folks from MIT, Berkeley, Google Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Yahoo Research - but we're always keeping an eye out for great people. On the technology side, we manage a sizable amount of valuable/confidential business and web crawled data. Given the traction, we're now looking for folks strong in engineering and statistics who want to get in early and grow with the company.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Analyze and understand customers' data and pain points to develop new product features and new products

- Build predictive models using sophisticated algorithms to help customers prioritize and succeed

- Develop data mining algorithms to extract useful signals from the web and other data sources

QUALIFICATIONS

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Math or related fields

- Ideally experience with analyzing data sets, formulating data problems, and building machine-learned models

- Familiarity with Python, Java, or R preferred

CONTACT

- https://www.slice-data.com

- hiring@slice-data.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by joshyeager »

Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers for Product Development and Professional Services

Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking talented developers to join our development and proserv teams in Frederick, MD. Our flagship product is JobTraQ, a task management and workflow system that offers vastly more flexibility and power than any other product in our market segment, and is significantly less expensive and easier to configure than big "BPM" suites like MetaStorm and Lombardi. These advantages are allowing us to disrupt both markets.

Product developers will create new features in JobTraQ and enhance existing functionality. You’ll help us build advanced visual design and administration tools, augment the product’s business intelligence capabilities, improve performance and scalability, and use customer feedback to enhance all parts of the system.

Proserv developers will work with our mid-market and enterprise customers and our business analysts to design and implement software solutions that build on JobTraQ's capabilities. Our implementation and customization projects are usually one week to two months long, so you’ll enjoy a wide range of work on interesting problems for clients in many regions and industries. Recent projects have included a touchscreen system for warehouse tracking, integration with accounting systems, complex custom finance and billing reports, and automatic data synchronization.

Both teams have an enjoyable and collaborative culture in a creative environment. We interact positively and openly and emphasize learning and professional development. These attributes have enabled us to produce an industry-leading product with a globally recognizable and satisfied client base. Our environment is relaxed and fun, we play everything from Total Annihilation to Alien Swarm at our game nights, and we equip everyone with new quad-core Thinkpads with SSDs and dual monitors. Our policies and benefits are family-friendly, with generous vacation time, good health insurance options, and flexible work schedules.

For more information about these positions, see the links below. If you are interested in either one, email your resume to resumes@swiftsoftware.com.

http://www.jobtraq.com/jobs/se227-software-engineer-product-...

http://www.jobtraq.com/jobs/se152-software-engineer-professi...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by andrewem »

dguaraglia wrote: post #242
brightsize wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site says that I should submit my "photo resume" I've heard of this in Germany - people having photos of themselves on resumes. But can you tell me specifically why you care what I look like?

This is common practice in most countries but the US. In fact, you can read it the other way around: why do you think companies are now forced to not ask for pictures in the resumes in the US?

So apparently in 2006 Germany passed an Equal Treatment Act [1], which prevents discrimination on various grounds, including racial or ethnic origin, sex or sexual orientation, disability and age. All of these are things that a photograph could tell you about. I'd be curious if in practice this has resulted in employees winning cases against employees. If so, and there's no legitimate employment-related reason to need a picture (such as when hiring a model), then if I were an employer I would hesitate to request one.

I also happen to believe that it's ethically correct and coincidentally, economically optimal to not discriminate on the basis of those factors, in addition to it being the law in Germany (and the US, where I'm from, apart from sexual orientation in some places). Avoiding asking for a picture is a good signal that you don't intend to discriminate in that way.

If there's a good argument for why a picture is helpful for making better employment decisions, I'd love to hear it.

[1] http://www.bakermckenzie.com/files/Uploads/Documents/Support...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by dale-ssc »

Socialserve.com -- Charlotte, NC -- local or remote

We're looking to add a developer to our small team to write and maintain our ever-growing stable of web-based Python applications for governments, non-profits, and the public.

Reasons to work for us:

* Developers are at the heart of our business. We have a flexible, no-nonsense environment where you can get real work done.

* Developers make our technology decisions.

* We enjoy programming and take pride in our craft. We strive to develop software that our users love to use.

* Python is our primary language and we develop on OS X and Linux.

* We love and use open source software, such as PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Git, and Asterisk.

* We're a 501(c)(3) non-profit making software that helps governments and other non-profits help people in need.

We're typically most impressed by candidates who have:

* A desire and talent for solving problems with software

* A strong curious streak and a love for learning

* Solid written and verbal communication skills

* Experience with a few different programming languages

* Experience with relational databases and SQL

* Familiarity with web standards and technologies

* At least a bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science

We'd love to hear from you. Please send a résumé to employment@socialserve.com or read more at http://www.socialserve.com/jobs/.

This is an FTE position. No recruiters, job boards, etc. please.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by snowmaker »

Scribd - San Francisco, H1B, INTERN are welcome

Scribd (social publishing & eBooks, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired THREE full-time people and several interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just last month ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with: * Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (we recently switched to Coffeescript and are loving it)

* iOS

* Android

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations

* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, big data, analytics

* DevOps and web infrastructure

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We're working on a giant new product launch now that we're really excited about. If you're interested in eBooks, I'd love to tell you about it.

Generally we're looking for full-time and INTERN hires (junior year or older) who want to move to SF. H1B and relocation are no problem.

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by saumil07 »

LocBox, San Francisco. Frontend Engineer, Rails Developer, Data Scientist, Inside Sales Representative. Relocations Welcome, H1B Transfers Welcome.

More at http://www.getlocbox.com/careers and http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/locbox-series-a/.

I’m CEO at LocBox (http://www.getlocbox.com) and we are looking to work with great folks that share our mission - empowering local businesses to generate sustainable revenue from their best customers. We want to do it with Data, Algorithms and Design in a space that has traditionally lacked all three but is finally turning the corner (and fast).

Most local businesses resort to unsustainable daily deals or boring Email Marketing to acquire and retain customers. We reject that status quo and our hundreds of (paying) customers agree. We’ve also developed a new search/crawl/tech-centric way of acquiring our own customers and disagree with the obsolete feet-on-street Sales model. The company is very small but generating material and predictable revenue; net revenue growth has exploded in the last quarter.

Our tech team is 3 at the moment and the company as a whole is 9 fulltime folks; we're looking to at least triple the tech team size in the next 6 months. The tech stack is standard-issue Rails/HTML/CSS/JavaScript and is deployed on AWS. The product and tech team operates on weekly sprints and there's a decent bit of Halo-playing and beer-drinking at the completion of sprint milestones.

We also just launched with a $5.1M Series A in the press w/ TechCrunch, AllThingsD, GigaOm and VentureBeat.

Ready to talk to us? I'm saumil at getlocbox dot com and at http://www.getlocbox.com/careers.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)

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Post by rootedbox »

fumar wrote: post #166
rootedbox wrote: post #114

CHICAGO - COYOTE - We went from 0 to a billion in revenue in 6 years.. So we're pretty much hiring in every type of position you can think of to keep up with growth. Come join us. http://www.coyote.com/careers/

I recently applied for National Account Manager. I never received an automated response stating my application went through. I use vpenajr@gmail.com as my email address. I checked the status, it says, "submitted." It was strange not to get the automatic response email.

I'll check with hr on the current process and try to update you!
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