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Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by conquest »

pcampbell wrote: post #155
conquest wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is the app around this post? I've always thought it would be interesting to have some social network way to know about jobs via friends and previous co-workers. LinkedIn has never really done much for me and it seems you have to be more proactive there.

Check out CareerElement.com; we will be bringing all kinds of new innovation to the job space. We will be launching in April. We are an angel funded Stanford/Google startup. And we are hiring: http://www.careerelement.com/index/software Location: Palo Alto, CA

Can you tell us more about your startup? How does it work? I've always thought it would be interesting to move the word of mouth job knowledge to a software tool. I know all the jobs we have open at my company and my friends know their open jobs. Why not share these openly either anonymously or via your friend network. Show who's moving where and what they're doing now in some easy to digest format.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by wehriam »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #100
Kilimanjaro wrote: post #28

I'd like to see this kind of post every month, how about the first monday of every month? A lot of hackers are looking for jobs and a lot of entrepreneurs are also hiring. Perfect match!

- Jobs HN: We are hiring - Jobs HN: We are available One for entrepreneurs to post their openings. One for hackers to post their availability and skills. I know we already have HN jobs, but this may be an informal way for HN readers and contributors, and who knows, it may grow to be part of our community.

Jobs HN: We are available seems like a great idea.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by btilly »

mncaudill wrote: post #133
btilly wrote: post #109

Google is hiring all over.

When applying to Google, can you apply to specific teams, or do you get placed where they think you would be the best fit?

Yes.

You can apply for specific jobs with specific teams. That does not mean you'll wind up in that job if hired. However you have a lot of say in where you eventually get placed.

I personally interviewed for a software developer position, but eventually wound up being hired as a site reliability engineer. (An SRE is sort of a cross between a sysadmin and software developer.) Pretty big shift, but not one I was unhappy about.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by khangtoh »

LeftRight is hiring and be part of the team building our mobile platform service. We're part of AlphaLab Summer 2009 and we already have revenue and paying customers for our soon to be launched mobile platform! We're based out of Pittsburgh, PA. Telecommute friendly!

Needed: Server side developer. Most of the backend is developed using Rails/Ruby, RESTful type API/web service. So Rails/Ruby is essential. If you like to experiment with cool cool stuff, like cassandra, ec2, cloud hosting, that's even better.

Drop me an email at my HN username @ leftrightstudios.net

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by nathanh »

We're running a "speed interviewing" event on 4/27 in NYC to connect software people and companies. Check out who's coming on hirelite.com

If you're impatient or want to get in touch with a previous company that's come, let me know and I'll put you in contact with them.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by nbrochu »

mpobrien wrote: post #15

I'd just like to post a friendly reminder before this thread fills up with a lot of posts. Please post your location, or if the job(s) in question can be done remotely, specify so - it makes things much easier.

In the spirit of making things easier, it would be great if you could also post how open you are to qualified applicants from other countries and what help you can provide, if any, with visas/citizenship.

This might seem like a fringe request, but I am sure there a quite a few awesome, available developers willing to actually relocate to a neighboring country (Canada/USA & vice versa, is pretty frequent AFAIK) to tackle an interesting opportunity.

I, for one, wouldn't mind relocating to the US (from Canada) if I liked the opportunity/challenge/team. I have no problem finding job openings for which I am qualified and interested in, but applying usually ends up being a waste of time for both parties when it is not clear whether or not it is possible.

Seriously, if you are open to it, don't keep it a secret! Help us find you! :)

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by prospero »

mncaudill wrote: post #156
prospero wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've just been hired, and haven't yet been placed with a team. I believe that's typical.

Congratulations on your new position. Could you give any insight on the interview process?

It was long. The entire thing took almost two months, and about three weeks passed after my final on-site interview before I heard anything definitive, though there were a number of intermediate steps in between.

My recruiter was really helpful. He kept in touch with me throughout the process, and let me know each time I passed a milestone. I've spent the last four years in a C# shop, and most of the interviewers he found for me had some background in C#. It ended up not really mattering, since most of the whiteboard problems only required pseudocode, but I definitely appreciated the effort.

The questions were pretty much all data structure and algorithms. I wrote a lot of code on the whiteboard (or in Google Docs for my phone interview), and was asked to justify my choice of data structure, and explain what sort of dataset would make it a poor choice. Upon finishing my solution, which was usually for a very contrived problem, I was sometimes asked to figure out a real-life situation where it would be useful.

I'm happy to have made it through, and am looking forward to starting my new job, but I do wonder a little bit about the interview process. I spent the last four years shipping a number of fairly substantial desktop applications, and have also been reasonably active in the Clojure community, and neither of these came up once after my initial conversation with my recruiter.

It's possible that my resume said everything that was necessary on that subject, but it also seems possible that neither of those things mattered very much compared to my grasp of CS theory. I don't mind much one way or another, but it's a kind of funny that I can come out the other side of the process, and still not have much insight into their hiring criteria.

Anyways, hope that helps. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask, though I can't guarantee I'll be able to answer.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by mncaudill »

prospero wrote: post #168
mncaudill wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congratulations on your new position. Could you give any insight on the interview process?

It was long. The entire thing took almost two months, and about three weeks passed after my final on-site interview before I heard anything definitive, though there were a number of intermediate steps in between. My recruiter was really helpful. He kept in touch with me throughout the process, and let me know each time I passed a milestone. I've spent the last four years in a C# shop, and most of the interviewers he…

This is great. Thanks for spending the time to type this up! It does sound like a very involved process.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

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Post by joshhart »

loganfrederick wrote: post #153
joshhart wrote: post #139

LinkedIn is hiring: http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobs_open . I was actually hired as a result of the last Who's hiring? thread and have really enjoyed it so far. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions about working here.

What's your contact information?

You can reach me at AtomicForce@gmail.com or jhartman@linkedin.com. I joined this team: http://sna-projects.com/sna/ This team specifically has open sourced a lot and there's a lot of info there if you're interested, though obviously LinkedIn has many more openings beyond that team.
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