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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by kateho »

Ginsberg - Edinburgh, Scotland, Full Time Head of User Acquisition, Project Ginsberg

We’re looking to complete our team by hiring a Head of User Acquisition to drive and execute our strategy around building a world-class mental wellbeing service for the Scottish population.

Key tasks are the planning and execution of our public beta launch plan and driving users to a number of smaller products that might be part of our product suite. Your ultimate success criteria is the number of relevant users that arrive at and activate our services.

We’re a data driven project: part of your responsibility is to identify and quantify the most appropriate acquisitions channels for reaching our target users.

Very competitive pay. Get in touch through kate at project-ginsberg.com see: https://www.project-ginsberg.com/blog/were-hiring-looking-fo...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by tach4n »

darthgoogle wrote: post #281
seldo wrote: post #208

Front-end developer, npm, Oakland, CA: https://npmjs.org We are the most popular package manager for Node.js and we're completely rebuilding and redesigning our website. We want somebody who cares a lot about CSS and HTML to join our team as our second full-time front-end developer, working with a world-class design firm to make our site more useful for the millions of JavaScript developers who visit it. We are not a…

"We care deeply about making tech a more inclusive and diverse place." If we assume that other companies listed here will abide by employment law i.e. non-discrimination in hiring, what is your selling point? That you care more than other companies do? That you engage in diversity outreach programs? Or are you sending a subtle message that white heterosexual male programmers who like watching sports need not apply? G…

Employment law only covers so much. For one, people are still discriminated against on the basis of their belonging to a protected class - it just can't be done overtly. For another the laws don't cover everything.

I appreciate that you feel the phrasing is antagonistic; but I hope you can appreciate that to me it is deeply reassuring and gives me much needed hope.

Searching for employment for me is very stressful (as it is for most people I imagine). I'm non-typical in a few ways, and some of them are rather visible. I have to worry about and have experienced judgment/reluctance to hire me based on those differences. It is nice for me to know ahead of time that an employer is not just looking for people who fit a certain mold.

It's not just about women, LGBTQ, people of color, etc either. One of the ways I am somewhat non-typical as a developer is I'm a high school dropout. It's relatively common for developers not to have a college/university education, but overall it's still not the norm and there are places that will discount you on that basis (especially outside the major tech hubs). Sure, a lot of postings will add that nice qualifier "or equivalent experience"; and that's great. This goes a little farther though, and lets me know that not only will they not hold my lack of a piece of paper against me, they won't hold my alternate path in life against me either.

I can appreciate that it might seem like it goes without saying to you, or might ring hollow... but honestly I've found there are places that don't care about diversity/inclusiveness, or are even hostile to it. Also, I do actually appreciate just the effort of hanging that little sign that says "this is a welcoming place".

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by olensa »

darthgoogle wrote: post #314
glenda wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is totally inappropriate here - take it somewhere else. I see no problem with them saying that being inclusive is something they care about...

I think its appropriate for somebody to figure out if a potential employer is likely to fire them because of personal donations or political beliefs. Given what happened with Brendab Eich its clear some organisations are more activist and polticial than tech. The recent history of npm's founder (and those at Joyent) suggests he will discriminate if he doesn't like your politics. So why bother wasting time and effort…

Since when was "we want our employees to respect one another and not harass each other" considered "political beliefs"? Fuck off with your childish manbaby bullshit nonsense shitgarbage. Get the fuck out of our industry if that's how you're going to act. You have the emotional maturity of a walnut.

You know what? Don't even bother responding. You're gonna think you're clever, but you'll actually be responding with trite garbage that we've all heard, literally, hundreds of times before. People like you are climate change deniers, or creationists. You have tons of information and resources right in front of you, but you never bother to pay attention. Then suddenly you're the idiot asking why monkeys still existed if humans evolved from them.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by sarajo »

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #318
darthgoogle wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its appropriate for somebody to figure out if a potential employer is likely to fire them because of personal donations or political beliefs. Given what happened with Brendab Eich its clear some organisations are more activist and polticial than tech. The recent history of npm's founder (and those at Joyent) suggests he will discriminate if he doesn't like your politics. So why bother wasting time and effort…

Dear Darth Google, We do not believe that our commitment to equality, inclusivity, and diversity constitutes a "politically charged environment". Nevertheless, please feel free to not apply to this job if you worry that your politics would not be a good fit with the culture at npm. I remain hopeful that we will manage to survive without your valuable contribution. Thanks. -- Isaac Z. Schlueter, President and CEO, npm…

LOLOLOL "Dear Darth Google"

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by sarajo »

darthgoogle wrote: post #281
seldo wrote: post #208

Front-end developer, npm, Oakland, CA: https://npmjs.org We are the most popular package manager for Node.js and we're completely rebuilding and redesigning our website. We want somebody who cares a lot about CSS and HTML to join our team as our second full-time front-end developer, working with a world-class design firm to make our site more useful for the millions of JavaScript developers who visit it. We are not a…

"We care deeply about making tech a more inclusive and diverse place." If we assume that other companies listed here will abide by employment law i.e. non-discrimination in hiring, what is your selling point? That you care more than other companies do? That you engage in diversity outreach programs? Or are you sending a subtle message that white heterosexual male programmers who like watching sports need not apply? G…

Thank god we have people like Darth Google looking out for the white guys.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by ashleyjohn »

Downtown San Francisco Full Time

Full Stack Developer at Academia.edu

To apply just send us an email: ashley@academia.edu Company:

* Our mission is to build a new system for scientists to share their results and broadcast their work

* We have over 10 million users and they are extremely important to us!

* Our investors include Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital and True Ventures

Team:

* We move quickly, everyone is in charge of their own projects but also very collaborative

* We get catered lunches from zerocater and lunch usually ends with a round of foosball

* We're a diverse group with backgrounds in philosophy, biology, music and art.

Technical:

* We are a Rails shop (you don't need to know Rails though, just how to tackle difficult technical challenges)

* Peer Review: We are revisiting peer review with a novel product built from the ground up that will allow layers of discussion on top of a single document and we are building this using Rails and Backbone

* Recommendation Engine: Lots of machine learning to parse science papers and figure out what people want to read. Pretty cool stuff.

* Servers, Speed, Security and Storage (Postgres / Dynamo / Elasticsearch / Redis): Speed and stability are really important to us because areas in the world with slower internet connections tend to be where researchers can benefit the most from open access to research

About you:

- You have a curious mind and enjoy tackling hard technical problems

- You work best when given a lot of autonomy

- You want to have a huge impact on a product that is making a positive impact on the world

Please send ashley@academia.edu an email if you would like to apply or if you have any questions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by maramartin »

REDWOOD CITY,CA - PRODUCT MANAGER - COURSE HERO

We’re looking for a Product Manager who will help define and build the product roadmap and define the customer experience as we move to internationalize our core study guides, flashcards and tutoring platform.

You’ll own this product and work closely with a dedicated engineering and design team, you’ll collaborate with our other Product team members, and you’ll share product roadmap, expectation and results with our Executive team and board.

Here are a few things we’d love to see in a strong candidate: * 3+ years of professional experience in a Product Manager role in a consumer facing software company, with extra bonus points for educational technology or e-commerce experience.

* A BA or BS degree, or relevant skills and equivalent work experience. MBA a plus!

* You can demonstrate success in delivering products and services in a high growth environment, and you have a track record of successful international product expansion in both strategy and execution.

* You can demonstrate effective, clear communication to lead a team and drive product as a major influencer across the company.

APPLY VIA: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/743

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by jacinda »

josephjrobison wrote: post #202
jacinda wrote: post #190

Doctor On Demand - http://www.doctorondemand.com/ San Francisco (SoMa), CA We have current openings for full-stack and front-end engineers (particularly with experience building single-page applications), as well as customer support and marketing positions. Doctor On Demand is a recently launched startup in the mobile health space. Our app allows users to connect to a real, US-licensed doctors for immediate consultat…

Would you consider Remote for the perfect candidate?

Yes - too late to edit, but remote is an option for an excellent candidate.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Post by slapresta »

darthgoogle wrote: post #281
seldo wrote: post #208

Front-end developer, npm, Oakland, CA: https://npmjs.org We are the most popular package manager for Node.js and we're completely rebuilding and redesigning our website. We want somebody who cares a lot about CSS and HTML to join our team as our second full-time front-end developer, working with a world-class design firm to make our site more useful for the millions of JavaScript developers who visit it. We are not a…

"We care deeply about making tech a more inclusive and diverse place." If we assume that other companies listed here will abide by employment law i.e. non-discrimination in hiring, what is your selling point? That you care more than other companies do? That you engage in diversity outreach programs? Or are you sending a subtle message that white heterosexual male programmers who like watching sports need not apply? G…

Thanks for your support for us white cis men. I don't know where we would be without your bravery and courage. /s

As a gay guy, I congratulate you in your inclusiveness, npm. I'm not interested in working on front-end at the moment, but if I were you would have gotten my attention. Thank you.

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