Ask HN: Contracting firms in SF/BayArea?

#1

Post by deeptruth » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 11:01 PM UTC

Hi all,

I've been trying to find contracting gigs but haven't had much luck lately (been mainly looking via my network, meetups, and a few startup message boards). I've been considering reaching out to firms that place candidates into contracting gigs.

With that in mind, does anybody have experience with these sort of firms? If so, would you recommend it? Also, any recommendations on firms would be appreciated.

Background on myself: BS/MS in CS (MS thesis in computer vision). Was a Data Engineer at AdTech company for 4 years (a lot of AWS/Hadoop/Spark/Scala/Python).

thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Contracting firms in SF/BayArea?

#2

Post by jcr » Tue, Aug 11, 2015, 7:43 AM UTC

In addition to the listings from YC-funded companies under "jobs" in the top menu, there's also a set of monthly submissions from the automated "whoishiring" HN user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

See the "submissions" link on the above page. The most recent are:

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996333

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996334

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996335

The "hiring" and "freelance" submissions might have some useful leads for you.

Re: Ask HN: Contracting firms in SF/BayArea?

#3

Post by deeptruth » Tue, Aug 11, 2015, 5:09 PM UTC

jcr wrote: post #2

In addition to the listings from YC-funded companies under "jobs" in the top menu, there's also a set of monthly submissions from the automated "whoishiring" HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring See the "submissions" link on the above page. The most recent are: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996333 Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015) h…

thanks! Really appreciate it!