Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by tonyhb » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:32 AM UTC

zenlikethat wrote: post #395

diafygi wrote: post #101

Javascript Developer | UtilityAPI.com | Oakland, CA | daniel@utilityapi.com | Solar job ==Description== We are a white-label SaaS that is used by solar and energy efficiency companies to collect their customer's utility bill and usage data automatically. You will be in charge of writing tools, scripts, and libraries that collect utility data from utilities. Often these utility data formats are complex and unique to e…

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems as though you're asking candidates to send you a PGP encrypted resume without posting the location of your public key.

You can do a search on public PGP key servers such as the MIT key server. His email shows this result:

https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=daniel%40utilityapi.co...

PGP key here: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE7F6FAD172EFE...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by frorelli » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:32 AM UTC

milankorsos wrote: post #174

Tallie ( http://tallie.com ) - San Francisco - Front-End Engineers (full time) Tallie is business expense report automation software that streamlines the entire expense management flow. We built the product from the ground up in the last years and we are in a really exciting growth stage with a small team serving thousands of happy paying customers in the accounting industry. I'm leading the UI Engineering and proud…

Your product looks sharp. Congrats on the growth and good luck with the hire.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by artemk » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:33 AM UTC

crdb wrote: post #381

lugg wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. There is always flexibility in the budget for the right people. Nothing stopping you from tacking on that caveat after offering a range so people can grok you from a distance. > 2. Salary is not everything. > I do believe salary is important, but not everything. There are a good number of people who are willing to take a job with less salary if they feel they can grow there more, the culture fits them better and…

It's also signalling. Higher salary both means the company can afford it (i.e. is stronger, healthier, a safer long term bet) and that the position is valued (as the company is willing to invest more in it).

Couldn't agree with you more. Higher salaries very much represent a company's ability and desire to pay top dollar. I do caution on the long term bet. It's not as solid as may seem. I've come across many companies who throw money at the problem of not being able to attract/retain talent with market rate range salaries. Could be a number of reasons, including politics, lack of interesting projects, unsustainable culture, etc.

Another major point to keep in mind is salary today vs growth in coming years. Getting a high salary today may bring with it unrealistic expectations. It may be your future bonus and raises that suffer. Your annual review will roll around and the managerial perception will be that you're already paid more than everyone on the team, so you're not getting a notable slice of the budget.

My point is that things aren't always black and while, and long term may be not as advantageous as they seem. If you're looking for a career, hoping jobs every year will not help. Becomes a red flag on the resume.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by lugg » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:35 AM UTC

milankorsos wrote: post #385

lugg wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. There is always flexibility in the budget for the right people. Nothing stopping you from tacking on that caveat after offering a range so people can grok you from a distance. > 2. Salary is not everything. > I do believe salary is important, but not everything. There are a good number of people who are willing to take a job with less salary if they feel they can grow there more, the culture fits them better and…

Your points are valid and I would not disagree with anyone who is prioritizing salary over growing opportunity. But I do believe though that there are people who are in that stage of their lives where they can take the risk of joining a company where they can grow faster, have a bigger potential financial outcome for the price of taking less monthly paycheck in the short term. Personally, probably because I am younge…

> making me more valuable in the long run so eventually I can make more money

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the "more money" from experience gained while taking a paycut will pale in comparison to "more money" from the number of years you state on your cv and dollar value of your last salary.

In perhaps clearer words, taking a paycut for career growth will most likely just prohibit your potential future salaries regardless of how much technical experience you gained.

This of course all changes considerably when you're talking founding/early employee where minimum wage is a real possibility..

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by postit » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:41 AM UTC

oebs wrote: post #265

Berlin, Germany - https://42reports.com/ Python Infrastructure Developer - Your job is to continue automating our development and operations processes. You help built and maintain the tools to develop, deploy and run our applications on AWS. Javascript/Frontend Developer - You help maintain and extend our AngularJS application and are not afraid to venture into touching the backend code as well! More information at h…

I didn't get any feedback at all of my last application. You should really improve you HR.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by arturnt » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:49 AM UTC

Symphony Commerce - SF, CA - (110-200K) VISA

Backend Engineer or Full-Stack Engineers welcome

Be a core team member that is building an horizontally scalable inventory management system for emerging e-commerce businesses.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/symphonycommerce

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by republic » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 5:21 AM UTC

Republic - Python Django Dev and Frontend engineer - Washington DC or REMOTE -- 100-150k,

Republic is a startup building software for the political space. Based in Washington DC and Northern Virginia, we build products that make political fundraising and organizing a breeze. We are looking for (1) a passionate Python hacker who has experience building large scale web apps (Experience with JavaScript is great) (2) a frontend engineer with expertise in html5, javascript and css

If politics + tech interests you, please email us: join [@t] republic (dot) gop

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by cunac » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 5:23 AM UTC

artemk wrote: post #368

SandB0x wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for being the the only listing with salary information.

This thread, and even forum, may not be the best place to get salary information first. Reason being, is this is a YC-related forum, full of early stage start ups, who are looking for core team members. A key attribute of key members is to be excited about the problem the company is solving first. Salary is a very reasonable point of interest when it comes to new opportunities. This may not be the right place to seek…

to be blunt as well , I am pretty sure that you primarily want my skills to help you solve your problem , being excited and not capable will not get you far which you can see from 99% of poorly executed startups go cheap will not get you far and from history we know how drinking kool aid ends up

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by beekay » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 5:24 AM UTC

e12e wrote: post #384

beekay wrote: post #141

Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (remote possible) We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Millions of people in all walks of life use our free educational platform to learn (check out some testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories ). Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, part…

Am I reading your career-page correctly when I assume you're only interested in people with a US work visa (eg: No remote from Europe?)?

Yes, unfortunately that's correct. We're going to work to make this situation better, but for now we require eligibility to work in the US and can only support visas from citizens of Canada, Mexico and Australia right now.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by gbraad » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 5:34 AM UTC

jrk_ wrote: post #170

dmacvicar wrote: post #111

SUSE is hiring for 68 different positions. 36 in Engineering. (REMOTE OK², CAN OFFER VISA, RELOCATION SPONSORSHIP) - Nuremberg, Germany - Prague, Czech Republic - Beijing, China - any SUSE location globally or home office We have positions open for Docker developers, Kernel engineers, Java/Linux developers, Ruby hackers, Rails developers, OpenStack engineers, and QA engineers. SUSE is a 20+ year old company providing…

As luck would have it, I'm living in Nuremberg and would love to work at SUSE. However, I didn't get any feedback at all of my applications. Any hints on what I could do to improve my chances?

I have the same issue for the Beijing office.