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

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Post by amyngu »

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

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Post by solveforall »

bertdavid wrote: post #753

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Whoa, that's the first job description that uses a 4-letter word that I've ever seen! Congrats on the chutzpah!

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

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Post by csbubbles »

kafkaesq wrote: post #888
csbubbles wrote: post #884

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not an investor, but a startup founder. Please don't take it the wrong way, but I would have never hired a person who thinks the way you write. I am sure you are a great person, skilled and experienced technically, and all that stuff. But when you are trying to get a new business off the ground, you basically risk your whole life. If you surround yourself with people who don't share your beliefs and goals, who y…

If you surround yourself with people who ... care about other things more than about building a successful business I've worked with all kinds of laggards, attitude cases and/or bona fide sociopaths my time; most are difficult to spot up front. But show me someone who genuinely cares more about their employer's or their own business than their spouse and their children , and who hasn't done the only honorable thing t…

I've been married since 2003, and my daughter is 9 years old. And I do care about my business more than about my family.

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

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Post by cookiecaper »

csbubbles wrote: post #893
kafkaesq wrote: post #888

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you surround yourself with people who ... care about other things more than about building a successful business I've worked with all kinds of laggards, attitude cases and/or bona fide sociopaths my time; most are difficult to spot up front. But show me someone who genuinely cares more about their employer's or their own business than their spouse and their children , and who hasn't done the only honorable thing t…

I've been married since 2003, and my daughter is 9 years old. And I do care about my business more than about my family.

This is horrifyingly sad. Please erase evidence of this before the HN edit deadline expires and seek therapy. They offer it online now: try http://talkspace.com.

The impact you can have on the world through children is much bigger than the impact you can have through Yet-Another-Music-Startup. A typical child is going to influence generations. It will be hundreds of years before their significance fades, whether their influence is positive or negative. That is true for anyone who has kids. Be a positive influence.

I've personally heard of maybe 3 music startups and I know the names of 0 music-related founders. Most of these companies will exist for a few years and then dissipate, and that's fine. They will serve a function for a limited time and make some users happier, and perhaps provide a good living for their investors, founders, and employees. Then no one will remember them, and that is as it should be. Please come back down to earth.

While it's true that you won't become famous by raising good kids, the net effect is far superior for everyone than any corporate effort could be. Family support and encouragement at all levels (parents, spouses, siblings, children) is a pre-requisite, not a drain, that enables the world's visionaries to succeed. Successful relationships with a spouse and a child are (usually) maturing, perspective-broadening things that make people better workers, not worse ones.

I'm sure your investors would be very put off if they found these comments, not to mention your wife and daughter should they ever stumble across it. Please do yourself and the innocent people in your family a favor and fix not only these posts, but the attitude that birthed them.

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

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Post by csbubbles »

cookiecaper wrote: post #885
csbubbles wrote: post #884

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not an investor, but a startup founder. Please don't take it the wrong way, but I would have never hired a person who thinks the way you write. I am sure you are a great person, skilled and experienced technically, and all that stuff. But when you are trying to get a new business off the ground, you basically risk your whole life. If you surround yourself with people who don't share your beliefs and goals, who y…

I'm an entrepreneur too. I'm indicating that the philosophy you're sharing serves only the investors, and that's why they try to ingrain it into naive or inexperienced founders. There is a problem when you allow your work to consume everything. Things are out of balance. That's true no matter how small or big the company is. It's not healthy for the founders or the employees to behave that way. This isn't to say that…

There are some valid points in what you are saying. But they all depend very much on tons of personal things. E.g., on your relationship with your spouse and kids. I probably got lucky, and my wife understands what I am doing and why, and why I don't spend a lot of time with her. She just accepts it, and we've been together for 13 years already. Or, say, if you enjoy doing whatever you are doing more than anything else.

I am not saying that all people should follow that. Again, my point was that there are people who try starting/running a business, who are in love with what they are doing, whom you may even call insane to a certain extent, and who expect to find (at least at early stages) people who completely share their goals, vision and beliefs. And who won't hire a person who thinks that there are things more important, regardless of whether it's their family or a weekend hiking.

I've read while ago that founders of some startup (AirBnb?) had spent about half a year to hire their first employee, and the question they typically asked the candidates was "Would you take the job if you knew you would die in a year?", or something like that. So, I personally understand and share that approach completely. As you can see, at least I am not the only person who treat these things that way.

And, again, I am not saying that it's for everyone, but people should keep in mind that it can totally be the case when they apply for a job at a startup. People are different. I agree that most of them feel about life same way you do - treating their families or some personal hobbies as higher priorities. But not all of them. Some people approach their lives differently.

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

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Post by csbubbles »

cookiecaper wrote: post #894
csbubbles wrote: post #893

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been married since 2003, and my daughter is 9 years old. And I do care about my business more than about my family.

This is horrifyingly sad. Please erase evidence of this before the HN edit deadline expires and seek therapy. They offer it online now: try http://talkspace.com . The impact you can have on the world through children is much bigger than the impact you can have through Yet-Another-Music-Startup. A typical child is going to influence generations. It will be hundreds of years before their significance fades, whether the…

I am afraid you are still not getting what I've been trying to explain. There might exist completely different perspectives and things can work differently for different people, different relationships, etc.

Not spending a lot of time with your family doesn't necessarily mean having bad relationship or having troubles with your relatives. Moreover, if your partners accept what you do and how it affects them (sometimes maybe in an unfortunate way), it actually can make your relationships much stronger.

What will happen with the next generations - no one knows. I think it's a bit irrelevant and idealistic. I live my own life. I want to make the best out of it. For myself, for my family, and for all the other people. What will happen after my life ends won't really matter for me (I am an atheist/agnostic). I am not saying we shouldn't invest our resources in the next generations, but instead of hoping on our kids and putting all the burden on them, I firmly believe we first should do whatever we can ourselves.

I am afraid your examples actually play against you. Steve Jobs (just off the top of my head) completely abandoned his family and built one of the greatest company of all times.

Please just try to get a bit out of your personal mindset and try to think and look at these things from a different angle. If something seems to be bad or wrong for you doesn't really mean that it's bad or wrong for everybody.

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

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Post by NewsNow »

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

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Post by dewyatt »

avaazjobs wrote: post #476

AVAAZ | https://www.avaaz.org/en/hiring/ | Global | Full Time | REMOTE Avaaz is changing the world, and we’ll give you the means to change it, too. Our team is a place to exercise your creativity and your leadership, while building never-before-seen tools for one of the world’s top online activism organisations. You can let your imagination run wild figuring out how to grow the platform and tools, improve rapid-itera…

I'll detail my experience when applying for a DevOps position.

It took two full months and in the end I did not receive an offer.

The process was roughly:

1) Coding challenge

2) Self-evaluation survey

3) Non-tech interview (be prepared to talk about crying and triggers)

4) Tech interview (break/fix test, login to server and fix)

5) Tech interview (Q&A)

6) Non-tech interview

7) Tech interview

Throughout the process there were multiple miscommunications. There were also technical difficulties where interviewers were not prepared (permissions issues on google docs, had to reschedule).

Twice I was told I was interviewing with Person A and ended up interviewing with Person B. Once I was told it would be a non-tech interview and it was a tech interview. Very disorganized and poor response times to boot.

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

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Post by jamespayneuk »

Cornerstone | Full time, Permanent | London, Onsite | https://www.cornerstone.co.uk/

UK #1 Online subscription service for men's shaving products.

Raised over £4.5m, including £1m on crowdfunding.

Currently a team of 3 developers (+ product/scrum person) using Laravel + AngularJS. Looking for 2 roles:

* Frontend Engineer; owning everything from overall site appearance, optimisation to making our pages 'e-commerce fast' and nifty deploy tricks (grunt/gulp).

* Backend Engineer; building a scalable web app and robust API with testable code in Laravel 5. Comfortable using unit tests, PSR, & design patterns

Based in a great office in Chancery Lane WeWork = (literally) beer on tap, loads of events and free food!

email: engineering [at] cornerstone [dot] co [dot] uk

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

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Post by kafkaesq »

csbubbles wrote: post #896
cookiecaper wrote: post #894

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is horrifyingly sad. Please erase evidence of this before the HN edit deadline expires and seek therapy. They offer it online now: try http://talkspace.com . The impact you can have on the world through children is much bigger than the impact you can have through Yet-Another-Music-Startup. A typical child is going to influence generations. It will be hundreds of years before their significance fades, whether the…

I am afraid you are still not getting what I've been trying to explain. There might exist completely different perspectives and things can work differently for different people, different relationships, etc. Not spending a lot of time with your family doesn't necessarily mean having bad relationship or having troubles with your relatives. Moreover, if your partners accept what you do and how it affects them (sometime…

Steve Jobs (just off the top of my head) completely abandoned his family and built one of the greatest company of all times.

Which he later came to regret, most profoundly:

Years later, after Jobs left Apple, he acknowledged Lisa and attempted to reconcile with her. Chrisann Brennan wrote that "he apologized many times over for his behavior" to her and Lisa and "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry."[2]†

In general, you may want to re-visit the implicit principle on which you're operating: namely "Someone incredibly famous and widely admired for their achievements did highly contemptible thing X, that was plainly and unnecessarily hurtful to other people; therefore, it's OK if I do it."

As if it was ever necessary for Jobs to have turned his boak on his family in the flagrantly callous manner that he did in order for us to have the shiny gizmos that we hold in our hands today, in the first place. If anything, all it amounted to was a distraction and impediment towards those ends.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs

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