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

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Post by sjambula »

Amazon Lab126 (lab126.com) | Sunnyvale, CA | Software Developer, Concept Engineering (ONSITE)

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

We’re looking for Software Development Engineers with broad experience and interests who thrive in fast paced start-up like environments. In this role, you will be a part of the Concept Engineering team that brings in new ideas and delivers high-fidelity proof of concepts. Responsibilities include:

    Actively participate and lead concept development and design ideation as part of a small team
    Rapidly build and iterate on polished, high-fidelity prototypes that express design intent, using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques for the task
    Develop functional prototypes to prove and sell concepts to development teams and senior leadership
    Partner with other teams to ensure that our techniques and technologies translate through to shipping products and services
    Be able to work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed to create delightful experiences for customers
Please email sjambula@amazon.com if you’re interested!

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

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Post by ryandrake »

adrianmacneil wrote: post #142

Cruise Automation | San Francisco | VISA | ONSITE We're looking for engineers help us build self driving cars. We love solving hard problems, and test our cars daily on the streets of San Francisco and Arizona. We have many roles on our website, but here are two that we are currently most interested in: * Experienced C++ engineers to work on tracking and planning algorithms. * Full-stack or backend engineers (Python…

Heads up, couldn't find your E-mail in your profile. Might want to update it.

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

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Post by EmmEmmTeee »

Thread.com (YC S12) | Software Engineer | London, UK | Full-time | Onsite

We're a startup that's using human stylists and machine learning algorithms to reinvent how shopping works for men (and someday women) who want to dress well but dislike shopping. In the process we're helping them to feel happier and more confident about themselves. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator. After launching 3 years ago we're already doing $1M+ in monthly sales with over 400,000 men using the service in the UK.

We're a team of 6 full stack engineers with lots of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before), and we're proud of the effort we've put into building and maintaining a strong engineering culture since the very first days of Thread. You'll be one of the first technical hires, getting to build and own huge parts of the product, and help us continue to shape our culture.

To learn more about the role, check out https://www.thread.com/jobs. And here's more about our engineering culture: https://www.thread.com/engineering

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

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Post by spitfire »

I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1]

There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

  - General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
    Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use them as proxies. 
    Using IQ is mostly illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

  - Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth.

  - Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire  a sociopath.
     There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for
This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours. There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets.

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

[2] The illegality comes from IQ tests disadvantaging certain minority groups.

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

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Post by cwhiten »

Solink - Ottawa, ON, Canada (ONSITE)

http://solinkcorp.com/

Front-End/Full-Stack Developer - Send resumes/questions to: cwhiten@solinkcorp.com

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About us:

We’re changing the way the security industry uses surveillance video.

Solink empowers brick and mortar businesses to use data to reinvent their entire operations. What differentiates us from other data-analytics software companies is that we’ve successfully made surveillance video a source of insight. We focus on security applications that combat fraud proactively.

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Tech:

- Front-end: Javascript(React, Angular, D3), CSS (SASS), HTML

- Backend: Node.js, C#, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS

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

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Post by dominotw »

metajack wrote: post #186
dominotw wrote: post #163

>The interview process is several phone screens, a take home coding challenge, and finally an on-site interview. It has become really arduous to switch tech jobs these days. I've been spending close to 20-25hrs/job-application even before on-site interview which is another 2 days of time sink. I've used up a major chunk of my vacation this point just for tech interviews. Feel angry and powerless. Maybe next year!!

To be clear here, the take home code challenge was designed to take about an hour. We tried to design this to be respectful of people's time and with the assumption that people aren't just applying to our job.

understood. The ones I've been doing are on average 4 hrs ( eg: https://mesosphere.com/careers/challenges/distributed-applic...). Did one last week that was 7 hrs.

I am just tired and exhausted at this point.

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

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Post by SCM »

Stevens Capital Management LP| Radnor, PA| Full Time| ONSITE

C++ Market Data Feeds Developer: Stevens Capital Management LP (“SCM”) is a registered investment adviser that manages a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that has been in business for 25+ years. SCM specializes in the rigorous development and disciplined implementation of empirically based quantitative trading strategies. Our highly productive team works in a fast-paced collegial environment, utilizing extensive data sets, technology and the scientific method to devise and employ trading strategies throughout the world’s most liquid financial markets.

We are seeking highly driven, production-oriented developers who possess strong technical skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

This is an opportunity to work in a real-time environment where you can make immediate contributions. You will be part of a small team building real-time data feed handlers for the largest financial exchanges such as the NYSE, LSE, TSE, CME, BATS, ICE and NASDAQ.

Primary Responsibilities • Develop and implement infrastructure to support market data and trading. • Develop and maintain market data feeds. • Build and design large scale applications, with a focus on reducing latency and improving the performance of the system.

Requirements • High proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment. • A Computer Science degree. • Outstanding problem solving skills. • Familiarity with multi-threading and networking protocols (TCP/IP, Multicast preferred). • Experience in a real-time environment in the Financial industry.

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

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Post by juriga »

AdRoll | San Francisco, CA | Full time

Senior UI Engineer (React, Redux, JavaScript ES6/ES7, private npm, Browserify/Webpack, SASS)

Our frontend team is looking for a seasoned engineer with a passion for world-class UX design and elegant UI development workflows. As part of this small team of senior developers and designers, you get to make a big impact building reusable React components and implementing our new style guide across all our products.

AdRoll is one of the most widely used adtech companies, with 25k+ companies using the product globally and $100M+/yr in revenue.

As we build, we're also sharing our code...

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/frontend/2015/12/21/gulp-react-d...

...and learnings with the open source community:

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/frontend/2015/11/19/rollup-major...

I'm happy to share more details via email (jyri@adroll.com), Twitter (@jtuulos) or over coffee in SF.

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

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Post by dang »

azaril wrote: post #137
pault wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, your comment was dead, probably because of the url shortener for the job spec. You might want to change that to the full url.

Thanks very much, I'll repost.

It got hit by a spam filter. Sorry about that; those are tuned more aggressively for new accounts. We've marked your account legit so it won't happen again, and restored your most recent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12406506) as the one you probably want in this thread. If you need anything else, please email hn@ycombinator.com. These threads get so top-heavy with comments that it's better not to add procedural discussion here.

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

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Post by welchmt »

RIPPLE | San Francisco | Onsite | Fulltime | www.ripple.com

Here at Ripple we create blockchain software infrastructure for financial institutions. Our mission is to create the internet of value (IOV) and support trillions of transactions globally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2YHhLkOO9g

We're looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer (x3), Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure and a DevOps Engineer.

We primarily code in NodeJS, we use and contribute to open source software and most of our team have been writing JavaScript and Node for many years and know the ins and outs of the ecosystem very well. In Addition most of our team comes from a diverse coding background, and we are always open to engineers excellent experience with Node, Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, GO and more!

On the operations side we're in AWS, make extensive use of docker and use salt and terraform. If you want more details I can put you in touch with one of our DevOps engineers.

Ripple is growing fast. We've got great funding (inc. Google Ventures & Andreessen Horowitz), and a very strong team here. Feel free to email me with any questions: mwelch@ripple.com (My name is Matt). Or apply through the links provided on our careers page.

Senior Software Engineer: http://grnh.se/b1x32i Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure: http://grnh.se/ofe4m6 DevOps Engineer: http://grnh.se/xgq4me

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