Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by DanFeldman » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 12:57 AM UTC

DanFeldman wrote: post #225

Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Devops, Electrical Engineer, Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, Data engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for: - Devops: help us build &…

Please apply through Starsky Robotics Lever page: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by dripton » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 1:07 AM UTC

robinduckett wrote: post #578

AdamN wrote: post #459

Amazon Alexa | Seattle, Sunnyvale, Boston | Engineers & Data Scientists | ONSITE Alexa converts natural language into great experiences. The Machine Learning team that I'm on has lots of great options for people just out of college, mid-career professionals, and some really interesting Principal positions too! Having switched from startups recently, I can tell you that Amazon has a fantastic culture when it comes to…

I get the same anxiety about applying for Amazon as I do Google, having not worked for a "famous" brand before (except for possibly Myspace ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and not having a degree (although plenty of experience). Is having a degree essential for Amazon?

It's not essential; I know plenty of people at Amazon without college degrees. But you won't make it though the interviews for an Software Development Engineer role without basic computer science knowledge. So if you didn't take data structures and algorithms in school, learn them on your own.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by mrep » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 1:27 AM UTC

lynnetye wrote: post #217

wishinghand wrote: post #212

Shouldn't compensation be a required field for companies to submit? Even a range would be useful.

I always assume the range is $80k - $225k for companies that don't explicitly say. Compensation is typically dependent on experience, and if they're hiring for multiple roles, it's also role-dependent. If someone can provide more value to the company, s/he will always be able to negotiate for more even salary/equity.

I would rather know up front numbers to filter out the obvious ones that are not competitive even though practically all say they are.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by makebbekus » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 1:39 AM UTC

At Good Eggs, we’re changing the world by changing the way we eat. We’re looking for software engineers to help us grow and sustain local food systems by building an online market and supply chain that delivers same-day, absurdly fresh groceries and dinner kits to customers' homes throughout the Bay Area, seven days a week.

We run a mature Agile engineering process with:

  * pair programming
  * test-driven development
  * continuous deployment

We’re building next-generation web applications with JavaScript across the stack and a wealth of other tools from the rapidly-evolving JavaScript ecosystem including:

  * Node.js
  * MongoDB
  * ES2017
  * Flow
  * ESLint
  * ReactJS
  * RabbitMQ

We believe in the magic of empowering small teams with clear accountability to achieve business goals. Our team is passionate about our mission, talented, and driven to change the world. We cultivate an atmosphere of openness and support where people feel free to be their true selves, take risks and let creativity bubble up. If that sounds like you, get in touch!

http://grnh.se/skw4ax1

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by caveatemptor » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 1:40 AM UTC

bengarney wrote: post #332

Blackstorm | Engineer | SALARY: $100k - 150k | San Francisco Bay area (SF) | Tokyo, Japan | Eugene, Oregon | VISA REMOTE Blackstorm is behind Everwing, the top game on Facebook's Instant Games platform. In parallel, we've built the world's most advanced javascript game engine for messenger games. We've raised more than $30M, and we have more than a million users per engineer at the company. Our technologies and games…

I can't speak for life in any of their offices, but just a heads up to anyone thinking of applying here:

I interviewed with them, made it several rounds, and then they went radio silent, after giving me the runaround. Given they approached me, this was particularly confusing. They just seemed very disorganized.

This was a few months back, so maybe they've change, but it was a complete waste of time.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by tifa2up » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

Alcatraz AI | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE | Machine Learning Engineer

We are looking for a mid-level software engineer with interest in machine learning and specifically deep learning. The ideal candidate would be self-motivated, needing little supervision and thriving working on hard, not strictly defined problems.

Product: We are developing a new method for physical access point authentication. Similar to FaceID on iPhone X, the technology unlocks spaces only when it identifies the person in front of it has access. To achieve this, we use facial detection and recognition, 3D sensing and artificial intelligence to enable highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations.

Job description: Help develop facial recognition and anti-spoofing algorithms Train machine learning models Collect and process training data

Team: 10+ engineers

Company: Alcatraz AI is a venture-backed, Series A startup based in Palo Alto, we're currently in stealth.

If interested, send an email with your resume to ab@alcatraz.ai

We're looking forward to speaking with you!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by hk1ll3r » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

We bring AI to the $17T, 7,000 year old construction industry. Founded in 2014, we are a fun bunch of Stanford PhD’s, ex-Googlers and Master students backed by some of the best VCs in the valley. If you want to live in California and have a kick-ass start-up experience where you face real-world and technically challenging problems in a fast-paced day-to-day environment where you work closely with extremely smart and talented people, then ALICE is for you. (It also happens to be one of the biggest opportunities on this page) Currently looking for a extremely smart frontend engineer. You will be a great fit if you:

- Have a sense of humor and a longing to learn & grow

- Enjoy creating a technically complex yet user-friendly interface

- Have a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures

- Are self-driven and can own responsibility for large parts of a project

- Passionate about creating a polished and responsive web UI

- Have 3+ years of experience with Angular, React, Redux / Flux pattern, WebGL and other front end technologies.

Bonus points if you:

- Understand the challenges of presenting a complex system to users

- Want the freedom to explore novel data visualization concepts

Come join us!

Email: hossein@alicetechnologies.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by TP4Cornholio » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

WWLink wrote: post #573

stevenheidel wrote: post #521

Rigetti | Senior Software Engineer | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE FULLTIME Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. We design and manufacture superconducting quantum integrated circuits. We package and deploy those chips in a low temperature environment, and we build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. We build software to integrate our systems directly into existing cloud infras…

Have you ever hired not-senior engineers? Like people with 3-5 years experience? Or are there none of those on your team? I always wonder because 90% of hackernews posts are looking for seniors. Thanks!

Most startups can’t afford to train anyone.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by elirose » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

We are a tech startup that helps schools deliver 1-on-1 mentorship to all their students. Our customers include Tufts University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of South Carolina, Northeastern and Penn State. Our users are students and alumni of these institutions.

Our mission is to directly increase the national graduation rate. We do randomized controlled trials to measure our impact on a given school. At the same time, we are constantly A/B testing new experiments to make progress on the deep human questions that underlie what we do:

  - Out of the thousands of alumni from this school, who will make the best mentor for this student?
  - What ingredients go into a profound mentoring relationship? How do these relationships get sustained?
  - What helps students stay in school?

Overall, we have a nonprofit's mission and a tech startup's culture. We raised our seed round and went through Techstars in 2015. We are on our 4th consecutive year of doubling our revenue and are fortunate to be profitable.

We currently have 2 engineers (an overall team size of 16), one of whom is writing this message. We are hiring a 3rd. Our stack is Heroku/Postgres/Ruby on Rails with an EmberJS frontend, but we don't dock you points for not already knowing these technologies -- we care far more about demonstrated ability to learn. See http://shearwaterintl.com/engineering/ for more about our engineering culture and processes.

* While this is an onsite position, we have an extremely flexible remote work policy: work remotely whenever you feel like it and it's OK with anyone you're meeting with that day. I work from home two days a week.

Apply through AngelList (https://angel.co/shearwater-international) and mention HN in your note. Or send me an email (eli@shearwaterintl.com) and let's talk more.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

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Post by egfx » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 2:54 AM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #564

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #458

PRIVATE INTERNET ACCESS | https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ | DevOps, Rails and Desktop Engineers | Full-Time Private Internet Access is a VPN service which brings security and privacy to the average user that’s fast and simple to use. We’re an activist organization at heart and are significant donors for organizations such as the EFF, Freenode, Fight for the Future, Creative Commons, FSF, Linux Mint, Arch Linux…

Time waste alert. I was asked to complete a timed take home project. It took a few hours. I waited a few days and when I didn't hear back I sent my own follow up email. I then received a canned rejection email in response.

Yeah sometimes this happens. I recommend refactoring and removing any infringing code if any and posting it on github as part of your portfolio.