Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by 35bge57dtjku » Mon, May 02, 2016, 7:57 PM UTC

grayfox wrote: post #354

ITriedThis wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anonymous review: I tried this process because it sounded pretty fun and unique. One warning I have for anyone interested is that there are some big waiting times involved. I'll share my timeline. Some of the lags were on my end, but I was assured I had as much time as I needed. - Day 0-6 - First contact - Day 7 - Assigned work sample - Day 21 - Submitted work sample - Day 62 - Work sample results returned - Day 72 -…

Oof, bummer. Your experience is slower than average. We ran into a grading crunch when we launched our Enterprise product. When you submit your work to us, your submission is anonymous. Three engineers grade each submission. Platform Engineers will experience the greatest wait periods. The other roles tend to be quicker. Expected time-frame: * Proceed from application to work sample: 24 hours. * Complete work sample:…

* Grade work sample: 1-4 weeks.

That's heinous.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by azth » Mon, May 02, 2016, 7:57 PM UTC

Exabeam | Bay Area, California | Full time | On site Seeking multiple positions:

Sr. Platform Engineer (San Mateo, CA)

You will be responsible for designing and implementing a brand new data processing system to detect advanced security threats using the latest stream processing and machine learning techniques. As part of the founding team you will have the opportunity to define and work in various areas of the platform including data ingestion, data processing, algorithm design, machine learning, reporting, visualization, etc. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of product definition and system architecture.

Responsibilities: Design and develop various platform components using latest technologies and coding in Scala.

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Performance Engineer (San Mateo, CA)

As a Performance Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design and develop automated tests that will measure the performance, scalability and reliability of the Exabeam Big Data Security Analytics platform. You will play a key role in developing strategies, tools, processes, and frameworks to test individual modules, as well as the complete platform.

Responsibilities:

* Creatively design and develop infrastructure and automated tests that will measure the performance, scalability and reliability of our system.

* Analyze and provide guidance to improve the efficiency, reliability, and stability of the platform.

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More positions here: https://jobs.lever.co/exabeam

To get in touch, send an email to

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by dsymquen » Mon, May 02, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

Fevo | New York, NY | https://www.fevo.com | Full-Time | ONSITE JOB DESCRIPTION

Fevo is a well funded startup that's focused on disrupting the age-old way people buy tickets to live events. Our mission is to turn the process of organizing groups going to an event into a social "experience" both online and offline. Our clients range from top major league sports teams to broadway and concerts.

Our team is a small, nimble collective of technologists who have an incredible opportunity to influence an entire industry to think differently. We work on cutting edge technologies, collaborate constantly and most importantly have a lot of fun while doing it. Did we mention our secret love for functional programming?

ABOUT YOU You’re passionate about building the best product and consumer experiences for live events. You love the challenge of scaling software - be it traffic or horizontal (across apps and platforms). You have a core competency in back-end and/or front-end engineering but want full breadth of knowledge across the stack.

You can write quality code with speed, love to collaborate, think through all possible scenarios and edge cases. As an engineer, you will manage Fevo’s cloud infrastructure, model the database, write services and build responsive front-end components and pages.

RESPONSIBILITIES Work across the full stack - every engineer comes in with core strengths and we open the opportunity to learn everything. Manage and improve our cloud infrastructure Building data services including database modeling Engineer core features on our application layer Build responsive components that run on Fevo platform and our 3rd party SDK/widgets Be capable of building across the stack solo or collaboratively with a team This position will report into the Director of Engineering

TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDE (BUT NOT LIMITED TO): Scala, Java8, Play Framework, ES2015 (using Babel and SystemJS), AWS, DropWizard, Node, modern lightweight JS Frameworks (not tied to a specific one)

QUALIFICATIONS 2-5 years of engineering experience Core strength in back-end or front-end but an eagerness to learn a full stack

If you would like to find out more after looking at the above,email me at sagar[at]fevo[dot]com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by chinpercolate » Mon, May 02, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

yolesaber wrote: post #328

chinpercolate wrote: post #8

Percolate is Hiring! | SF/NYC | Multiple Openings | On-Site, FT | Competitive - $120K/YR - $160K/YR + Equity URL: https://percolate.com/careers/ Percolate is The System of Record for Marketing. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and GGV, Percolate is one of the fastest growing companies in enterprise software. Percolate’s all-in-one software platform helps marketers plan, create, execute, and ana…

I interviewed at Percolate a few months ago and it was a really disorganized and offputting process. I had to wait in the lobby for 10 mins (I showed up on time) while people ran around and tried to figure things out and then they directed me to another floor where I had to wait another 10 minutes. And then the interview was conducted in an incredibly loud and distracting open office, not in a private room or anythin…

Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it and it's feedback like this that has led to many positive changes at Percolate. If I pin-pointed your interview activity accurately, you might have interviewed in June/July of last year when, admittedly, things were in flux. I joined in late August of 2015, and I've been part of enhancing the candidate experience for all of our candidates and the candidates who make it through our rigorous interviews are delighted by the experience and practically always end up choosing Percolate. This is an issue we have taken very seriously, and it is continuously improved upon at Percolate.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by cookiecaper » Mon, May 02, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #474

spyrosg wrote: post #456

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course they're a 'corp', and of course they're looking after their own interests over yours. Looking after your interests is your own job, no one else's. The employer-employee relationship is partly a fight. The best you can hope is that it be a gentleman's one, with no hits under the belt, rather than an all-out brawl or backstabbing. grayfox is showing you cards that the average employer would hold back and woul…

That's a fair reply - thanks. I still don't personally like it, but I'd say my bias is mostly that I am older and have kids... I've been fucked over by so many companies in my 20+ years in Silicon Valley that I do not trust any HR team or "vision of a unicorn family"... But I will say that this model would look ideal to any millennial person who wants to work at a "progressive" tech company/start-up But said company…

I sympathize with you and also dislike long evaluation times. I also have kids and a life outside of work. Personally I think 6 hours is too long to design a work sample around but it's not that bad, I've done work samples (early in my career) that took 3 days and that I would've billed out for $3k when I became a consultant later.

In grayfox's timeline, things really seem to hang up around the time it takes to evaluate the sample, asking for 1-4 weeks. This is another point in favor of minimalist work samples (smaller sample = less time required to review). IMO work samples should be a simple problem where the candidate demonstrates his basic awareness of the core skills needed to perform the daily work and the bulk of the hiring process should occur in a discussion between parties.

Anyway, I'd suggest that they tighten up this process by a) minimizing their work samples and b) making it priority to review work samples as they come in, which means adding more resources for this purpose if necessary. It shouldn't take more than a week to hear back at any step of the process.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by jsonne » Mon, May 02, 2016, 7:59 PM UTC

cosm0s wrote: post #390

http://hitask.com - project and task management Saas. | REMOTE | Full-time and Part-time * UX Designer - web and mobile * Marketing manager * Customer experience manager, Help writer, Documentation, Onboarding. 1. Saas task and project management tool hitask.com is looking for a person who will take lead of UX design. Redesign interaction of web application and mobile apps - iOS, Android. Design new features and appl…

Regarding marketing. Are you open to contract/consultants?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by Cymen » Mon, May 02, 2016, 8:02 PM UTC

marieburns wrote: post #291

LOCATIONS: Boston, San Francisco, US Remote Drum roll...Datawire.io is on unstoppable mission to help development organizations scale through microservices. Our team is innovative, intellectually curious, and dedicated to building infrastructure and tools to empower developers and engineering organizations to scale faster than ever. We're building on state-of-the-art infrastructure such as Kafka, Spinnaker, and Docke…

Is only the Principle Cloud Architect remote or are all of the positions potentially remote?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by handshakemike » Mon, May 02, 2016, 8:03 PM UTC

Handshake | San Francisco, California

Our mission is to democratize opportunity - to make it easy for any student to find the right job for them, no matter where they went to school, what they majored in, or who they know.

Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with 75 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan and Texas), and has more than 1.3 million student profiles and 55,000 companies recruiting on the platform, including 80% of the Fortune 100. Our unique data on students' interests and the historical career outcomes gives Handshake the rare ability to help students of today imagine, plan and jumpstart their future careers.

Hiring for:

-Full stack developers (we're a RoR shop but open to all types of software engineering backgrounds): http://grnh.se/y3vipr

-Front-end developers: http://grnh.se/euci80

-QA Engineer: http://grnh.se/64irse

-Product (UI/UX) Designer: http://grnh.se/1d650y

We have more positions, just check out our careers page: https://joinhandshake.com/careers/

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

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Post by throwing_it » Mon, May 02, 2016, 8:05 PM UTC

loumf wrote: post #137

Trello | NYC | Full-time REMOTE or ONSITE - Back-end dev (Mongo, Node, Coffee/JavaScript) - Front-end dev (Coffee/JavaScript, Backbone) - iOS dev (Objective-C, Swift) - Tester https://trello.com/jobs There are also marketing, sales, finance, and support positions open.

I think it's the case also that they aren't actually looking for devs but just casting lines in the water continually to see what comes along. Acquaintance of mine said that was his impression, too.