Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by kabir_h » Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

Somerville, MA and London - The Echo Nest

Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that powers music apps with our API, and services like Echoprint, our open source music fingerprinter. Our data powers apps for the BBC and MTV and music services you've used. We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you'll be able to shape the future of music.

Jobs: Engineer Junior Engineering Intern Music Information Retrieval Scientist QA Manager Senior Engineer Web Developer - London Office

http://the.echonest.com/company/jobs/

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

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Post by mentat » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 10:23 AM UTC

hokua wrote: post #258

dmnd wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can assure you we don't consider turning down applicants as marketing. Please feel free to apply again in a few months - we try to err on the side of caution when hiring, and any interviewing process likely has a large margin of error.

Why so cautious? Are you not hiring programmers at-will? If Im not performing on par with a team, Id leave no hard feelings. The reason I applied is im highly interested in building tools for educators, and currently run a business that sells such tools.

Training is expensive and time consuming for the team as a whole. "Trying someone out" is usually not efficient.

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

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Post by timbucktieu » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 7:32 PM UTC

timbucktieu wrote: post #236

Mountain View, CA Addepar (addepar.com) is a software company looking to solve challenging problems in the financial industry. We're looking for exceptional engineers to develop our revolutionary technologies. The job description is broad, and you'll do everything from accessing and exploring complex sets of financial data to sculpting the finer points of the user interface. The position is perfect for an engineer wh…

Urgently hiring for a Senior Systems Engineer:

As a Systems Engineer at Addepar, you will utilize your combination of significant LINUX experience, network knowledge, and debugging skills to design, deploy, monitor and automate all operational aspects of Addepar's platform. You will be directly responsible for deploying both offensive and defensive techniques to keep our platform humming. You should have a background in large-scale system administration and be familiar with open source technologies, such as Nagios. You will work very closely with the product and development teams. Experience with Amazon's AWS is preferred. Familiarity with Java, MySQL, MongoDB, Javascript is a plus!

Job Responsibilities:

-You will be responsible for the overall health and performance of our platform. -You should know standard security practices and also be able to identify any potential application specific vulnerabilities. -Tools development. We want engineers that can automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of our large-scale Linux environments -Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design -Work with development teams to enhance, document, establish process and generally improve the operability of our systems

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

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Post by hokua » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 12:37 AM UTC

mentat wrote: post #272

hokua wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why so cautious? Are you not hiring programmers at-will? If Im not performing on par with a team, Id leave no hard feelings. The reason I applied is im highly interested in building tools for educators, and currently run a business that sells such tools.

Training is expensive and time consuming for the team as a whole. "Trying someone out" is usually not efficient.

You can try someone out before you invest in them. Its called internships/probationary period. Lots of companies do it.

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

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Post by mentat » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 2:09 PM UTC

hokua wrote: post #274

mentat wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Training is expensive and time consuming for the team as a whole. "Trying someone out" is usually not efficient.

You can try someone out before you invest in them. Its called internships/probationary period. Lots of companies do it.

To "try them out" you have to teach them enough about your process and code base to be useful. That still can take significant amounts of time. The primary investment isn't money, it's time.

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

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Post by DavidChouinard » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 2:28 PM UTC

modoc wrote: post #86

Boston, MA #1 - Paid Intern/Co-Op * Marketing/Biz Dev/Sales part-time * Write blog posts, white papers, researching leads and competitors * Fortune 1000 B2B sales and biz dev #2 - Full time salary + benifiets * JBoss/Linux support/developer * ATG or similar IOC experience desired. * Mix of handling support issues, doing development, etc... Ping me: devon@sparkred.com with any questions!

Please add a short description of what you do. Much more helpful when parsing this thread.

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

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Post by siddharthjoshi » Sun, Oct 09, 2011, 7:46 AM UTC

My team at Amazon.com (Customer Service Technology) is hiring SDEs!

We are a small team of 7 engineers, but we each develop systems from the ground up, straight from DB design to front-end UI. We deploy new features almost every day.

We mostly have Java, with a sprinkling of C++ in our services and use the Perl/Mason framework for our web apps and Dojo/JQuery for Javascript.

As the team is moving into exciting new projects (machine learning, schedule optimization etc), I encourage you to come join us and be a part of the next generation of Customer Service Technology.

Here is the official posting and how to apply: http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/129914/ref=j_sr_2_t?ie=UTF8&#3...

(Seattle + H1B OK)

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

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Post by Stealx » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 1:43 AM UTC

Chicago, IL - Rockstar Front & Backend Developer - TrainSignal

Want To Move to Chicago? Moving costs & bonus! 10 year old company, 4 years in a row on Inc. 5000 list and profitable year over year!

Have front-end skills with backend experience? A variety of tools we use -PHP/MySql -jQuery, HTML, CSS -nginx & Apache

Highly competitive salary & benefits.

iman@trainsignal.com for more info

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

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Post by bxf » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:29 PM UTC

Denver, CO - Ecocion, Inc.

We're in the environmental compliance business.

Seeking INTERN(s) to help with new web project. Legacy DB, everything on top of that is new development.

Primarily, we're looking for people who can take some initial guidance and use it to find the last 30/40/50% of the solution on their own. Some .NET exposure would be a big plus. Front-end experience (HTML, JS, CSS, etc.) also a big plus.

Internships are paid. Feel free to email me directly (see my HN profile). Full advert here (scroll to bottom): http://www.ecocion.com/careers

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

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Post by thomson » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:55 PM UTC

nmb wrote: post #218

San Francisco - Lookout Mobile Security Full-time or intern Lookout is the leader in consumer mobile security. We're a small, well-funded team tackling big problems on small devices. We're hiring across the board; go here to get a sense of some available positions: https://www.mylookout.com/about/careers Experience in Rails, iOS, Android, and/or network or mobile security are awesome to have, but not required. nbhat@…

+1! We're also scaling up a data team for some interesting machine learning problems. Experience with any of the following helps: R (lm, gam, gbm, randomForest, caret), Python, Ruby, MapReduce, Hadoop, large datasets.