Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

SciTec is a R&D-focused small business that develops new algorithms to analyze remote sensor data. We’re looking for full-stack cloud application developers to work with our algorithm development teams to transition these tools into cloud processing environments. Key areas of expertise we’re looking for include:

* Cloud management and deployment tools: Mesos, Docker, VMWare, AWS

* SQL and NoSQL data storage: ElasticSearch, Accumulo, PostgreSQL

* Application frontend development: HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS

More than specific technologies, we’re looking for developers who are willing to dive into complex problems, work across multiple technology stacks, and help us keep moving algorithms out of the lab and into real-world use. Strong communication skills and systems engineering expertise are key.

If this sounds interesting to you, shoot me an e-mail at zheaton [AT] scitec.com to discuss further. Interview process is via phone/Skype, or alternately onsite if you're local to one of our offices.

It took you TWENTY ONE DAYS to review my challenge. Granted, it wasn't 5 weeks, but that's immaterial. A decent response would be. "Hey we got your challenge" - on the next business day. If it takes you more than another 2 days to review it, say "Hey, we are having some trouble reviewing your application for reason X".

I appreciate your effort, but you're not being transparent at all. Transparency goes further than "here is what we do, deal with it".

And as I already said, you're handing out challenges that appear to be silly skills tests, expecting people to write "good production code".

The only reason I ever did your challenge was because I somehow enjoy doing challenges for no reason other than being challenged.

This is a new branch of Walmart Technologies (not to be confused with Walmartlabs that focuses on the .com site) that is focused on modernizing the stores systems and everything else that is not .com really. At Walmart, the possibilities are limitless and the people here in Reston are amazin (I actually mean this, I am a software engineer who just started last November and I am astonished at the projects I have been able to work on so far and the technologies I have used). We are a new team, the oldest member has been here a bit over a year, and we are trying to find the brightest and best software engineers anywhere in the world. We need them as the scale of the problems we are trying to solve is huge and we focus on creating elegant solutions for those problems. One big plus also is that we encourage continous learning and we love it when you contribute (or have contributed) to an open source project. We want to give back to the community in different ways too (we volunteer, and do meetups frequently). So if you are super smart, like to be surrounded by smart people, and like to solve difficult distributed problems, you should contact us!

Just a note. For Junior devs, fresh out of school, we don't care what language you code in (even though we use Java here for the most part so at least you should be willing to learn it). For everyone else, we'd expect you to have a good working knowledge of at least one JVM language.

Get in touch at wmtech.reston@gmail.com