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http://about.ning.com/jobs.php
Email me if I can answer any questions -- my HN username @ning.com
We're hiring at Ning, more or less all roles: front and back end engineering, operations, product mgmt, UX, QA, various management roles. On the eng side we have java, ruby (not rails (okay, there is one rails app)), c, php, and whatever-or-not, the focus is on getting the job done with the right tool for the job not the language or framework. http://about.ning.com/jobs.php Email me if I can answer any questions -- m…
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Isn't the term "hero" used in _The Mythical Man Month_ to refer to the one talented individual that ends up saving the project? Thus, a "hero" is indicative of immature development process.
As someone who's seen approx. 73,801 job postings, I prefer just about anything to "software engineer." Just for flavor.
At Disqus, we're looking for a front-end hero* . The candidate should be good at everything from visual and UI design to Javascript optimization. Email jobs@disqus.com. *hero is the new rockstar
Just for the record, if I were looking for a job, and you used hero (or ninja, or rockstar) in the title, I wouldn't take you guys seriously. This seems to be a common sentiment.
Basically, these words often mean a senior position, at a (relatively) small company, for low pay.
If you don't mind the pay-cut, you can probably leverage your work there and make a name for yourself.
gavin at gavinbrown.com. Include a link to some work.
Awhile ago I posted my site, http://www.happyjobsearch.com here for feedback. I hope no one minds my mentioning it here again, but it seems relevant. I wrote the site over a weekend after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. The first time I was laid off, I took a very haphazard approach to looking for jobs and it caused me a lot of stress. I made Happy Job Search to help get organized. It's like a GTD app…
I was doing some work this past summer trying to extract good feature sets from job ads so users could train a neural network to help filter through ads. I see there are a lot of sites that to do something for employers but its good to see someone else thinking of job seekers. Not much out there for us and I think an opportunity exists for someone that can optimize and organize the process with us in mind.
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This city does has non web related businesses. New York is known for finance and stocks. I have a friend who writes financial modeling software for a hedge fund. The scene does exist, but you have to go look for it. If you expect to go into a cafe and be surrounded by developers and tech folks, you will be vastly disappointed. The more events and meetups I attend the more I realize that this city is full of great tal…
http://www.nextny.org/ and http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ are pretty established, but I can't speak for their quality myself. (um or http://startuply.com/#/in%20new%20york/1 )
Anecdotes != conclusions, but for us it worked very well.
Here's a related question: I'll posit that there is a higher density of "very desirable" top-notch hackers being thrown into the job market than at any other time in my 15-year career. You know the people: the ones that rarely hit the normal job market because with one or two emails, they can line up their next gig in an afternoon throught their network or friends-of-friends. For those of us who are hiring, what stra…
Show some respect during the interview process. Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person. I interviewed with a company that had a technical recruiter who knew technology and I was very impressed by them for that. Also keep in mind, how you run the interview process says volumes about what its like to work in your company. Taking > 2 weeks between responses shows lack of interest. Maki…
I absolutely agree here. There's nothing which turns good people off more than feeling unappreciated, and HR people simply don't know what to appreciate.
communicate the type of position you're looking at putting the person in before lining up their in-person interviewers
I'd go a step further than that. If you're interviewing someone really good, don't put them through the standard interview process. Invite them to your office and talk to them about what you do. Show them around; have them talk to people in a variety of areas (if you're a large enough organization for that to make sense).
At the end of the day, ask the candidate where he/she thinks they could help you most, and ask your people where they think the candidate could help you most. If there's consensus between the candidate and your people, that tells you what to do. If there isn't consensus... well, then that person wasn't actually the great candidate you thought he was.
Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?
Go to conferences and shake lots of hands. You don't need 150 clients, you need 1 or 2 great clients. Like dating, it's a numbers game. I don't think you have to push your RoR experience, since many business owners won't get it. Find out what problems business owners are having and offers suggestions to solve it, even if it's doesn't include your services.
Exactly, business and dating have more parallels than people like to admit, it all comes down to forming relationships.
Numbers are good, first impressions are better, and solid performance are best. Once you have a track record it is a lot easier, because woman .. err .. businesses always want the guy everyone else has.