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

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Post by WWLink »

vonmoltke wrote: post #390
potatolicious wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Experience is relative. Compared to a 15+ year veteran sure, this guy's but a baby in the crib. But he's still a baby in the crib with recruiters beating down his door left, right, and center, none of whom are expecting him to quit his job for a vague, conditional offer of employment. This isn't about who deserves what, this is about the market conditions. Right now the market conditions are such that even devs with…

Define "half decent at advertising their abilities". I am going on 12 years hardware and software experience, and aside from shitty spam recruiters I have never had anyone beatig down my door.

I wonder this too! I don't know anyone complaining about their doors being beat down by recruiters lol.

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

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Post by wyclif »

potatolicious wrote: post #355
huhtenberg wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm an experienced dev (3+ years ... This is still "barely out of school, hardly knows what he's doing" stage :) Edit - downvote me all you want, but if you are to show up on the interview and declare that you are in an "experienced dev (with 3+ years)", the interview will conclude quickly. It's not that you have just three years of experience, it's the fact that you think it's a lot. It's not. This makes you cocky…

Experience is relative. Compared to a 15+ year veteran sure, this guy's but a baby in the crib. But he's still a baby in the crib with recruiters beating down his door left, right, and center, none of whom are expecting him to quit his job for a vague, conditional offer of employment. This isn't about who deserves what, this is about the market conditions. Right now the market conditions are such that even devs with…

Absolutely true. Especially the bit about recruiters.

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

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Post by WWLink »

joelgascoigne wrote: post #202
ryanx435 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very happy about how open you are. This is amazing! A couple of questions: 1) what are "Happiness Heroes" and "Weekend Warriors"? What do they do for your company? 2) it seems that Mary is getting screwed, although I don't know how much your equity is worth. Why the disparity between Mary's salary and Adam's? She makes 20% less but only has .045 percent more equity...

Great questions Ryan! Happiness Heroes are the people who help customers with queries via Email, Twitter and Live Chat. Weekend Warriors are people in the team who help with those same things during the weekend (though it's a full-time 5 days a week role, so 3 other days too). We have 6 full-time members of this Happiness team, it's something we make a very high priority. In the last month we answered 92% of emails w…

"I can definitely see how it seems Mary is getting screwed."

I love how you guys went fully transparent but I lost it at this one lol. I was kinda put off by the "we get hundreds of emails" stuff but I guess I'll go ahead and join in the herd. You guys seem pretty cool.

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

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Post by potatolicious »

vonmoltke wrote: post #390
potatolicious wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Experience is relative. Compared to a 15+ year veteran sure, this guy's but a baby in the crib. But he's still a baby in the crib with recruiters beating down his door left, right, and center, none of whom are expecting him to quit his job for a vague, conditional offer of employment. This isn't about who deserves what, this is about the market conditions. Right now the market conditions are such that even devs with…

Define "half decent at advertising their abilities". I am going on 12 years hardware and software experience, and aside from shitty spam recruiters I have never had anyone beatig down my door.

If you don't have a LinkedIn profile, get one.

Make sure your summary is well written and keyworded with words that recruiters are looking for (and that apply to you) - Rails, C++, graphics, what have you.

Flesh out your past jobs section. Keyword these descriptions too as relevant (technologies used, major popular frameworks, libraries, etc).

Basically reverse engineer the recruiter's practices - they're using a search tool, searching for keywords relevant to the position they're fielding. This is not very different from SEO. Increase the likelihood of being in a search result and watch the recruiters pile in.

While you're at it, make sure your resume is always up to date and available on your own website (if you don't have a website, get one). Make sure you are high up in Google results for your own name. Keyword your resume the same way you'd do your LinkedIn profile - maybe ~5% of the recruiters that show up end up coming directly via my website through some kind of search.

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

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Post by wyclif »

emperorcezar wrote: post #338
lolwutf wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be transparent and say: I think it's crazy you expect developers to take a 45 day risk/trial period, in order to work at the company. I'm an experienced dev (3+ years of wholesome experience + a solid work portfolio) and I could even deal with the rather significant pay cut I'd be taking... but a pay cut + risking not having employment, when I'm already settled in a current job? No thanks. But good luck.

I have to agree. What I think is a big deal here is for developers with families. 45 days is 45 days without health insurance and other important benefits. There is COBRA, but that's two months of paying that bill. For most family plans that's 3 - 4k in expense. That said, it really depends how much they are paying the prospective employee while contracting. If it's enough to make up for that then it might be worth t…

What's that you say? Developers with families and (gasp) kids? You mean developers older than 22, with actual lives and responsibilities outside of work? Inconceivable!

I will say this, though— I give them credit for being open about what they really want. A lot of companies don't do that.

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

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Post by hemantv »

Optimizely - San Francisco, CA / Amsterdam, NL - Fulltime, Permanant. Intern/H1-B Transfer okay as well.

Optimizely is a website optimization platform. We enable businesses to show the right thing to the right person at the right time. Our first product makes A/B Testing easy. In 2 years we’ve grown to become #1 in the category with 4,000+ paying customers including Starbucks, Disney, and Marketo. We're profitable and our revenue is growing 400% year-over-year. Join us in our mission to empower businesses to make better data-driven decisions.

About the Job: We have scale: 15 billion server requests/month. You’ll work on our amazing visual editor - a cutting edge tool / high performance low footprint iOS SDK or scaling our system to new heights in a continuous integration environment; we’re fast and nimble: 1-2 deployments every day. Benefits Free city-wide Gym membership at any Crunch Fitness. Free Clipper Card to pay for your commute from anywhere in the bay area. Catered in-office lunch and dinner on weekdays. Full medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available. Full dental coverage including orthodontics. Full vision coverage including contacts. Dependents 100% covered for medical, dental, and vision. Unlimited vacation policy. 401k benefit. Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 30" monitor. Working with a great team and having a huge impact!

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

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Post by emperorcezar »

wyclif wrote: post #425
emperorcezar wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to agree. What I think is a big deal here is for developers with families. 45 days is 45 days without health insurance and other important benefits. There is COBRA, but that's two months of paying that bill. For most family plans that's 3 - 4k in expense. That said, it really depends how much they are paying the prospective employee while contracting. If it's enough to make up for that then it might be worth t…

What's that you say? Developers with families and (gasp) kids ? You mean developers older than 22, with actual lives and responsibilities outside of work? Inconceivable! I will say this, though— I give them credit for being open about what they really want. A lot of companies don't do that.

Ha. Sometimes feels like that.

The transparency make them one of the better companies out there. Though I'm surprised this trial period isn't mentioned in their job listings in some way.

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

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Post by dirtyb1t »

dirtyb1t wrote: post #95

Cigital is hiring software security folks What we do: We're a software security consulting firm that helps build security into the SDLC. We work on a wide variety of projects involving static analysis, penetration testing, architecture review, threat modeling, red teaming, network pen testing, etc. We deal mostly with the private sector and the types of applications we work with are varied from mobile to webapps to v…

If you do apply through the website shoot me an email anyway and I can give you inside tips for nailing the interviews. I understand that a personal email is sketchy. But I don't want professional recruiters and recruiting companies spamming my work email.

I am a consultant at Cigital and am posting because I get a bonus for referring people, and because we find our best employees on websites like this and /r/netsec. In the past year we hired over a dozen people from here and reddit.

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

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Post by matiasb »

deevus wrote: post #356
joelgascoigne wrote: post #19

Hey everyone, hope your April is off to a killer start! Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 21 person team spread across 14 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $350,000 in March, and we have $580,000 in the bank…

I emailed a few months ago. Stock standard response like it was a job application when I actually asked several specific questions. I'm sure you guys are great to work for, but don't promise to read every email if I'm just gonna get a mail merge reply.

I just sent my resume, it's the fourth time. I remember writing to Buffer on September 2013, December 2013 and January 2014. I got the same reply the three times lol.

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

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Post by joeldidit »

huhtenberg wrote: post #308
lolwutf wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be transparent and say: I think it's crazy you expect developers to take a 45 day risk/trial period, in order to work at the company. I'm an experienced dev (3+ years of wholesome experience + a solid work portfolio) and I could even deal with the rather significant pay cut I'd be taking... but a pay cut + risking not having employment, when I'm already settled in a current job? No thanks. But good luck.

> I'm an experienced dev (3+ years ... This is still "barely out of school, hardly knows what he's doing" stage :) Edit - downvote me all you want, but if you are to show up on the interview and declare that you are in an "experienced dev (with 3+ years)", the interview will conclude quickly. It's not that you have just three years of experience, it's the fact that you think it's a lot. It's not. This makes you cocky…

Yea, 3 years can be very little. But 3 years of real experience (plus intelligence) and the ability to actually come up with new and relevant solutions to problems probably trumps 15+ years of doing the same year's worth of work over and over again (not that uncommon), 20+ years working on technology that's no longer relevant, 10+ years of only doing what you're told while not being able to think for yourself, or any other number of things.

Filter out cockiness/arrogance that gets in the way of productivity/progress, etc: yes. Tell someone who's simply confident in their abilities that they don't know what they are doing because they only have 3 years of experience: no.

I understand that the prevalence of the so-called "entitled youth" has everyone ruffled these days, but there's a difference between being arrogant and feeling entitled (I'm sure these people exist, but don't they always), and not accepting the old world BS of bowing your head, taking everyone's shit, doing what you're told, then settling for the scraps that get thrown your way (something you should feel so lucky to have happen). In the case of the latter, that world needs to die, and I'm all about progress and moving past such suffocating, stagnating, backward nonsense.

Also, when it comes to programming, after about 5 years everyone evens out (with regards to gains unique/specific to years of experience) and there isn't really much difference. Everything past that is mostly inside knowledge or factual knowledge that you get from happening to work at one company or another (or with some person that happens to know said things). And since the technological landscape (past whatever the latest buzzwords or fads are) changes at least every 5 years, all that specific knowledge loses relevance with time.

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