Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

Durham, NC

Concrete Data is looking for an experienced .NET developer for systems integration and ground-up development projects. This is a full-time contract opportunity expected to last approximately 3-4 months, with a possibility of a longer engagement. Technologies include C#, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, Knockout, SQL Server 2008 and 2012, Windows Server 2008 and IIS. Familiarity with Java is a plus but not essential, as is domain expertise with enterprise project scheduling, capital asset management or cost accounting business processes.

This position is based in our office in downtown Durham, NC. We are not looking for a remote work arrangement at this time; please respond only if you are able to work onsite.

Strong candidates will have at least 6 years of experience developing .NET applications, will be experienced with Entity Framework or other ORM tools, will be experienced at estimation, architecture and design, and will have a track record of delivering high-quality code in a dynamic and client-centered environment.

If you enjoy delivering high-quality code with little supervision, are able to deliver great software to clients and are looking for a dynamic, exciting environment, we want to talk with you!

Learn more about us at www.concretedata.com.

Required: 4 years experience with .NET development using C#, SQL Server and ASP.NET Experience with .NET 4.0 and/or 4.5 Strong HTML and CSS knowledge Experience with Javascript frameworks, such as Jquery, Backbone or Knockout Experience building and interacting with .NET web services

Desired: ASP.NET MVC, Knockout, Entity Framework experience Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or other commercial project scheduling tools Experience with cost accounting applications Experience integrating custom and commercial applications for enterprise clients

Principals in the Raleigh/Durham metro area only, please.

edit: forgot to add that inquiries may be sent to me: adam dot haile at concretedata dot com.

San Francisco/CA, New York/NY, London/UK Remote/Re-location OK, Full-time

Whitetruffle.com is a game-changing recruiting platform that matches software engineers and UX/designers to great tech jobs and we’re looking for more engineers to join our family to help refine and enchance our proprietary matching algorithm, improve our UI, and lead the development of our mobile app. We have over 2000 companies like Asana, Eventbrite, Optimizely, Zappos, Delve News, Path.com, etc. who use Whitetruffle to source talent to build out their teams. The popularity of the platform stems from the fact that candidate contact info remains anonymous until both parties agree to the match, and you're introduced directly to the in-house hiring source (founders, CTOs, HR lead) so it's fast without any spam.

We're scaling quickly and need to keep up with our growth. If you have a passion for disruptive products and like coding, fast releases, cool designs, and being part of an energetic and smart team, you’d be a good match. Our office is based in Rocketspace (a super cool co-working space) in SF.

Work stye - “work whenever, wherever”

Workflow: Weekly meeting over IRC every Monday morning. Once a week team lunches brings everyone together to talk about the product, brainstorm new ideas, or share their crazy weekend stories. On Tuesdays we have a 1 hour product meeting over Google Hangouts. We're on IRC all the time.

Push Process: push to master whenever you want, unit tests run automatically and are hooked up to IRC; push to prod whenever you want as long as unit tests pass. QA on your own. It’s ok if you break the site from time to time, we like taking risks and prefer to push code.

Whitetruffle job openings: 1. Sr. Software Engineer (Machine Learning, MySQL, Python, API experience a plus) 2. Engineering Director/Manager (Management, Python, Java, MySQL, API) 3. Seasoned UI Engineer (angular.js, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Python) 4. Mobile Engineer (iOS, Obj-C, Android, Java)

90% of our engineers were hired using our own product. For all jobs, register (build your profile) at http://www.whitetruffle.com/company/whitetruffle. If you’re a good match, we’ll contact you.

For more details visit https://www.whitetruffle.com/candidates. Make sure to try our service so we can have a productive conversation.

To Be (http://tobe.us) is a new way to collage the Internet with images, music, and video. Our users create everything from personalized notes and mixtapes to private sketchbooks, all using HTML5. To Be launched in Japan last month, but our team is in NYC (the East Village).

We have an amazing, expressive app built with Ember.js and Rails. It looks nothing like any web application you've worked on before. Get in touch if you don't believe us.

We need an experienced JavaScript developer (or Ruby developer eager to learn Ember) to help us launch To Be in the US. Ideally someone comfortable with JavaScript, Rails and Postgres. Someone to worry about browser paint speeds, and not to worry about old browser support. To optimize CSS transitions and HTTP responses, not to optimize cubicle space. To move our tested, object-oriented codebase forward.

Come work with us, and push the limits of what browsers and the web can be. Email hello@tobe.us with the words “Interested Developer” in the subject and a link to code you are proud of in the body. You can also learn more at: http://tobe.us/developer

This is a full-time salaried position in New York City, with the opportunity for equity and leadership in a young company.

For those without showdead on; it seems that Brian (not-D) Foy was hellbanned for his comments.

It seems obvious that he is a disgruntled ex-employee so you should take his statements with a grain of salt, but since I don't see any reason for hellbanning him for that (maybe he got too many flags?,) so I'm reposting them there.

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I am not Brian D Foy so stop maligning his name. Brian D Foy doesn't work for Booking and he never has.

Booking tries to keep the big names you mentioned happy so that they don't spill the beans. These names get the best development projects and the big money. One of their job responsibilities as a senior developer is to advertise and say good things about the company. I concur with you that they play this game well. In fact open praise in developer forums about the company is a sure way to land good bonus.

They make tonnes of money but none of that is shared with the developers although they put up with the grunge work of fixing one of the worst Perl code in the industry patched up by people who left in a hurry.

I speak for those who are going to leave their family, friends at home with the hopes that they would be doing good work based on the big names working there only to find that the reality is totally different.

The treatment meted out to the rest of the developers is shameful and you know it and the Perl blog mentions all the pain points.

The expats do not know the local employment laws of Netherlands and Booking.com fully exploits this to the hilt.

And the truth can be found out easily from people who left the company and who currently do not get a direct/indirect monetary benefit of saying good things about the company, and given that you are recruiting for them and get approximately thousand Euro atleast for every successful lead, it disqualifies you.

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The Netherlands has employee friendly policies. After three years in a company, employees automatically get an "indefinite" contract. An "indefinite" contract ensures that the employer cannot kick out the employee on a whim unlike in the US.

Good Dutch companies give out indefinite contract to the expats at the beginning of their employment itself but not Booking.com.

Booking.com gives out a 1 year contract to start with and after every 2 years kicks out its developers and gets new ones. So the frequent hiring you see is one of the side-effects of this cheap policy. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the big names Curtis "Ovid" Poe mentioned jumps on this mailing list to say - "not me", but the truth is this is their cheap game.

So after two years the delta of ones career capital can be summed up as:

1. experience in copy pasting code and cargo culting which would translate to nothing when you try out for another job.

2. no monetary benefit. Booking has the most underpaid developers in the industry. Those bonuses they promise never come. Given how expensive Amsterdam is, one wouldn't have saved up a penny after two years and if you have a family you might end up in debt.

In short one is ruining his/her best two years without any increase in career capital or monetary standing.

San Francisco, CA. H1B other visa support is ok.

I'm the CTO at Change.org we are looking for a range of engineering, product and design roles. We just raised a round to fund growth, but the company has mostly been self-sufficient. We have millions of monthly users that use our site to help them change the world. We've played instrumental roles in everything from the boy scouts changing their policy about gay scouts to helping reinstate high school chess clubs.

We have a range of engineering roles but everyone must be: - An awesome person - Care about making the world a better place - Be really interested in learning and growing themselves

Our culture is really important to us and regardless of where someone fits in terms of technology we want to keep building an engineering team that has an amazing culture and is driven to improve the and ourselves.

Job wise we need: - Frontend->Fullstack Developer - The FE->BE code mix tends to fall on each engineer - Know HTML/CSS/JS + Web langaues (Ruby,PHP,Python,etc) - Our stack is a mix of RoR and Node.js - Mobile - iOS, Android, and mobile web expertise are all welcome - "Big data" - You can do ETL and work EMR/Hive/Redshift, etc - You might like monkeying with math and doing ML too - Writing web services (restfully) a bonus - Devops - You know lots about making systems run especially automation of metrics and sys-admin - Ideally you have application experience

You can apply via: http://www.change.org/hiring or just email me directly tom at change dot org