Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jacinda » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 12:33 AM UTC

Doctor On Demand | San Francisco, CA and VA/DC/MD Metro Area | Full-time

Company Website: http://www.doctorondemand.com/

Doctor On Demand allows people to have a visit with a Physician or Psychologist using their smartphone or computer. We help users save time and money by eliminating the waiting room in cases where an in-person visit is unnecessary.

We are hiring for backend and devops engineers and also have an open product management position. Our backend is built using Python (Django / Celery), Postgres, Redis and RabbitMQ. Our automation makes heavy use of Ansible and Jenkins.

To apply or find out more information about a specific position check out our careers section: http://www.doctorondemand.com/jobs

Feel to contact me with questions about the open engineering positions at jacinda@doctorondemand.com.

We have openings in customer support, clinical operations, HR and finance as well, but I'm not able to answer questions about those. Please check out our careers site for more information.

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

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Post by anon20160701 » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 12:38 AM UTC

arsenerei wrote: post #600

Staples SparX - San Mateo, CA - Full Time Looking for: * Software Engineers * Dev Ops * Data Scientists SparX is a small engineering team focused on applying online machine learning and predictive modeling to eCommerce (impacting a 24 billion dollar business). Our stack is 100% Clojure, service oriented, targeting 50 million users with 1ms SLAs. We apply engineering and data science to tough problems such as dynamic…

fyi I contacted them and they sat on it for 3 weeks before responding with a code test and without responding to the questions in my email. I hesitated to post this, but it was not how I'd think you'd treat a potential colleague.

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

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Post by rahulvohra » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 12:42 AM UTC

==Superhuman==

• What: Rebuilding the email experience. Think vim/sublime for email, for web & mobile: lightning fast, beautiful, and programmable

• Why: 900M+ people spend 1/3 of their day in email, they deserve superpowers that make them brilliant

• Vision: Greater productivity platform / OS

• Funding: $5M+ seed, led by First Round Capital (first VCs in Uber, Square, etc.)

• Stack: Javascript, React, Golang, Postgres, Objective-C/Swift

==Team==

• My Co-founder & CTO Conrad was VP Eng at Bugsnag, and built Pry (used by 25% of Ruby developers)

• My Co-founder Vivek founded Rapleaf/LiveRamp (acquired by Acxiom for $310M)

• I was previously Founder & CEO of Rapportive (YC'10, acquired by LinkedIn)

==Contact==

Email me: rahul@superhuman.com

– Rahul Vohra, Founder & CEO

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

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Post by basecase_com » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 12:53 AM UTC

i-applied-there wrote: post #586

basecase_com wrote: post #553

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi m00dy, Did you have any issues with the BaseCase recruitment process? I'll try my best to answer any questions you may have. Glancing at the logs, I think you are objecting to the fact it took ~9 business days to review your solution? I agree that this is long (and longer than usual). I can confirm that I'm restructuring how we handle our recruitment process to speed-up the review process (more people are being in…

I'm not OP, but I wouldn't recommend applying there either. Their process is completely broken (they require candidates to spend hours on at least two assignments before even an initial interview). This might be OK if an applicant had no CV or portfolio. In any case, most companies (large and small) thankfully don't do this.

Thanks for the feedback. Our recruitment process is:

1. Screening test (~10-20min)

2. Outline of salary range, working environment, product, and of remaining recruitment process (our "FAQ").

3. Final "software architecture" test (3.5hrs - 6hrs avg, 9hr max)

4. ~2 1hr interviews

5. Offer

Note that after the 10-20min screening test we disclose the rest of the process in detail as a matter of course.

I understand that you might disagree with this process but I think it's reasonably transparent to participants. We've hired several people in the past year and I hope to continue to hire into the future.

Out of curiosity, how would you structure an ideal recruitment process? I'm genuinely interested in alternative methods of assessing people's ability to write high-quality code. (I've found CV/portfolio-based assessments unreliable, but it may be that I haven't done them "right").

If you have any additional criticisms of the process I'm open to discussion. Hiring is tricky and I'm sure we can do better.

Regards,

Diarmuid / CTO of BaseCase

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

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Post by rsavage » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 12:56 AM UTC

In-depth inc is a newly formed start up focusing on the cultural sector.

Our goal is to become the source of information on all items of historical importance held by organisations worldwide.

When searching for information about ‘Mongolian weapons’ you go to Wikipedia, when searching for information about a specific Mongolian weapon used by Kublai Khan, you come to In-depth.

Our first product is an open-source platform allowing museums to create web and mobile experiences for their exhibitions with an aim of being highly customisable and extensible (think Wordpress/Drupal). Thus allowing museums to create unique apps and features, while sharing a base platform and driving down costs.

We will be going through an accelerator (mahuki.org) program starting in August and are partnering with the largest museum in New Zealand.

Check out the full job description at http://mus.nz/cofounder or email rowan@indepth.io

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

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Post by thegeekpirate » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 12:57 AM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #429

wlesieutre wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I thought it came through fine

Communication takes two participants; this thread showed that some folks are reading it as a personal attack on them or as a personal attack on others. It's more important to me that I don't personally turn people off Pivotal. We talk a lot about empathy. I'm only human, sometimes I miss the mark. But we also talk about adapting to new information. It's likely that I have accidentally turned away a bunch of bright pe…

Don't let one or two people be the deciding factor when it was probably the best line out of any submission I've read.

The meaning was incredibly clear, to a point where I can't even fathom how there could be a misunderstanding.

You even said yourself that the inspiration was two people who were hesitant because of their PHP/PhD backgrounds, and I bet there are far more of those out there whom you're inviting to apply.

You'll never please everyone.

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

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Post by bootload » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 1:01 AM UTC

rahulvohra wrote: post #603

Superhuman - https://superhuman.com | Full-stack Engineer & iOS Engineer | Founding Team | Full-time | San Francisco | ONSITE ==Superhuman== • What: Rebuilding the email experience. Think vim/sublime for email, for web & mobile: lightning fast, beautiful, and programmable • Why: 900M+ people spend 1/3 of their day in email, they deserve superpowers that make them brilliant • Vision: Greater productivity platform / OS…

"Rebuilding the email experience"

are you rebuilding tool (or could you program your tool) as RFS #28 ~ http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html & http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

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

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Post by jefflab » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 1:03 AM UTC

Tule - tuletechnologies.com | Full-stack Engineer | Oakland | ONSITE

Product: Help farmers improve production through optimal irrigation. Powered by novel sensor technology.

Software Stack: We use Rails for our web server, swift for our iOS app, R for our atmospheric and remote sensing data pipeline, python for working with Google Earth Engine, and we are starting to use machine learning for some unreleased prediction algorithms. As a full stack engineer, you could work across all these projects.

Mission: Increase the carrying capacity of the planet by increasing food production and reducing environmental impact.

https://angel.co/tule/jobs/45271-senior-full-stack-developer

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

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Post by ktRolster » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 1:12 AM UTC

d8niel wrote: post #591

drchrono (YC W11) | http://drchrono.com/careers | Full-time in Mountain View CA drchrono is a medical platform for doctors and patients. We are crafting only the best mobile healthcare experience, with a focus on iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and web. The driving force of our efforts is in changing the way people engage and experience healthcare through electronic health records. You would be part of an entrepreneurial,…

That seems like a lot of steps

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

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Post by dawhizkid » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 1:14 AM UTC

eodolphi wrote: post #238

1%Club | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | fulltime | Onsite 1%Club is the do-good crowdfunding platform. We are passionate about empowering people to create positive change in their community, city, country – or in the world. So far more than 2 million euro has been crowdfunded through the 1%Club platform. And via our network, we have kick-started over 1000 initiatives in more than 80 countries. 1%Club offers you the bes…

"1% Club" basically means the complete opposite of do-good wealth sharing to Americans :)