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Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by majewsky »

raverbashing wrote: post #74
meritt wrote: post #67

Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement. Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features for the past five years and that pgsql would have been just fine (had people read some boyce-codd anyhow).

> Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features Funny, because it's pgsql that added a JSON data type in response to MongoDB and others.

Convergence is always happening everywhere. Linux has a Windows runtime, and Windows now has a Linux runtime. :)

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by rmdashrfroot »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #90
throwaway95837 wrote: post #18

I am 100% owner of an internet company making 7 figure profits annually. I am extremely secretive of my business, almost to the point that some would consider a pathology. However, I will divulge my hiring strategy, because even if everyone uses my method, there will still be many employees for me to choose from. I look to hire people who just need a job. People who are qualified, but not overly qualified. People I k…

When they get bored after 6 months, they quit and go somewhere else I thought you had 100% retention rate?

100% reading comprehension, great work.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by ryandrake »

Interesting. Lots of picky responses here--people prepared to wait it out and go through tons of candidates looking for perfection: Need this language. And that platform. Must know such and such database. And DevOps. Front end and backend. Full stack. And these four key abilities. And passion. Prepare for the interview. Be ready to explain this and that. Be good at whiteboard coding. Went through 400 candidates.

If you can sit back and pick and choose like this, then how does that square with the mythical "shortage of engineers" everyone complains about?

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by dagw »

Data presentation. There are boatloads of data analysts who can do all kinds of clever analysis of all kinds of data, but we're finding that the real crux is presenting those results to the relevant parties in a way that they can quickly see the data that they actually need in a way that makes it as easy as possible for them to make the decisions they actually need to make.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by sidcool »

ipince wrote: post #83
sidcool wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, working with Google would be a dream come true for me. However, most of my experience is with Amazon ECS and Docker, tried a bit of Mesos.

? Why is that a "however"? You have bonus points already! Apply and make your dream come true!

Well, honestly, I have a sort of inferiority complex when it comes to applying to Google. It's like Atlantis to me.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by borplk »

uniclaude wrote: post #49
throwaway95837 wrote: post #18

I am 100% owner of an internet company making 7 figure profits annually. I am extremely secretive of my business, almost to the point that some would consider a pathology. However, I will divulge my hiring strategy, because even if everyone uses my method, there will still be many employees for me to choose from. I look to hire people who just need a job. People who are qualified, but not overly qualified. People I k…

Where I live (Japan), this is the most common strategy. The best way to get a job in Japan is to tailor your resume in order to show a maximum of loyalty. Anything too far from the norm can be a red flag (like not being married). The best advice to take from your post is to make sure you know which type of company you're applying to. A small bootstrapped lifestyle business probably won't hire like a hot SV funded sta…

Being married is the norm in Japan? I thought they had a ton of singles.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by yellowapple »

richardknop wrote: post #14
hobonumber1 wrote: post #2

I work at SoundHound as a Senior Software Engineer, and take part in interviewing/hiring. Full-stack JavaScript engineers are still in very short supply. Lots of people claim to know JavaScript but many fall short when working across the stack. When I say full-stack, I mean being responsible for building and managing everything the front-end webserver (NodeJS), Database (Postgres/MySQL), and front-end (usually ReactJ…

Just took a look at your company's website. Looks interesting but I am a bit confused. Can you explain what is your product? Not 100% sure I understand.

Once upon a time (and probably still now, though it sounds like they've generalized their idea a bit), SoundHound was a Shazam competitor with a nifty feature where you could sing or hum the song and SoundHound would actually manage to figure out what song you're singing. I definitely preferred it over Shazam by a long shot, but its song database was a bit lacking (or maybe the recognition piece was working too hard), so I'd often have to try again with Shazam.

I've since switched to a personal policy of "no Google stuff on my phone", which means not having access to the Play Store. I haven't checked lately to see if SoundHound is on Amazon's app store (it wasn't when I first checked, but neither were Spotify or TuneIn and now they're both available, so I might go do that).

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by shubhamjain »

collyw wrote: post #87
meritt wrote: post #67

Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement. Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features for the past five years and that pgsql would have been just fine (had people read some boyce-codd anyhow).

What do you put in your job ads? Usually all I see is a list of tech that I haven't had the inclination to learn as it seems like a step backwards for the majority of use cases- e.g. MongoDB in place of relational databases.

I guess most companies need to pretend that they are a cool tech company with a "challenging line of work". The sheer shortage of programmers manifests a developer-centric market where using the cutting-edge technology matters, even if the business considerations make less of a sense.

Take for example, Walmart Labs move to Node.JS + React [1]. The rationale is quite obvious here. It's a step to distance from the corporate portrayal of "Walmart" and create an image of a nimble, developer-friendly team (There maybe other important reasons, but I'd assume good PR mattered a lot). Contrary to what HN may suggest, the first thing that exhilarates a developer (the early ones to say the least) isn't the business, it's the tech.

[1]: https://blog.hellojs.org/walmart-labs-releases-electrode-mov...

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by statictype »

z3t4 wrote: post #86
meritt wrote: post #67

Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement. Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features for the past five years and that pgsql would have been just fine (had people read some boyce-codd anyhow).

What's so special about NodeJS: * It has a revolutionary module system (Common JS) witch allows less coupling, more code reuse and better abstractions.

Couldn't you say the same thing about C? Or C++? Or really, any language made in the last 3 decades? (Except JavaScript which only got it recently and has several competing module/import mechanisms)

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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Post by nornagon »

statictype wrote: post #99
z3t4 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's so special about NodeJS: * It has a revolutionary module system (Common JS) witch allows less coupling, more code reuse and better abstractions.

Couldn't you say the same thing about C? Or C++? Or really, any language made in the last 3 decades? (Except JavaScript which only got it recently and has several competing module/import mechanisms)

C/C++ has no module system to speak of. Libraries are packaged in a whole menagerie of ways and shapes, with different build systems and different ways of linking and including various parts of them.

Try building something with SDL on Windows if you want to see this for yourself.

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