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

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

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Post by davidw » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:44 PM UTC

ryanSrich wrote: post #502

davidw wrote: post #481

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Cool - drop me an email if you're ever up in Bend - there's a nascent startup industry here which is pretty cool.

What's the industry looking like in Bend? Are startups there focused on any particular markets? In Portland most smaller companies and startups are outside of tech (artisanal goods, food, etc)

There are a few companies here (even one that posted in this thread) that do tech, and a few VC's with one foot here and another in the Bay Area. There's also a decent outdoor sector, as you can imagine.

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

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Post by pyb » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:45 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #509

pyb wrote: post #486

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What is your location?

Chicago. But I've flown down to sfo, seattle couple of times. I seem to be able to not get past on-site interviews :/.

Anectodally, it seems to be a lot worse in the US. But why would it ? I would have thought the competition for great engineers is highest there. Humiliating them is not the best strategy...

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

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Post by edawerd » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Gusto - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver)

Gusto is building dead-simple, delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses.

In only 3.5 years, we've grown to process nationwide payroll for more than 35,000 companies, process ~$20B in payments, and recently added health insurance, 401(k) and workers compensation insurance.

Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-working, and friendly software engineers. You

can read more about us on our engineering blog:

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Some of the technologies we use: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, and React.js.

We have openings to work in Payroll and our HR teams

Apply online here! https://gusto.com/careers or email me directly.

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

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Post by Lyrasis » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

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We have a an open rec for a Technical Lead, who will be responsible for oversight, management, and development of a large international open source software project. The Technical Lead works with a broad group of community stakeholders to develop, organize and manage the software development process, as well as contribute code to the project. If you are interested, please see/read more here: http://www.lyrasis.org/job/Pages/LYRASIS-Positions.aspx

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

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Post by khaki54 » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

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

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Post by lj3 » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:50 PM UTC

pyb wrote: post #508

lj3 wrote: post #496

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I'm not sure arrogance factors in. If you compare interviews now with just five years ago it's like night and day. It used to be a short phone interview then an onsite. That's it. It was relatively quick and easy on both sides. It was also unreliable. The flood of unqualified candidates into the job pool has made the task of sifting through resumes and talking to potential candidates far more time consuming. The time…

Agree that adding more tests and interview is self defeating, but I wouldn't be so sure that there are many more candidates? It's not like the number of CS students has gone up X00%. Visas are harder to come by as well. OTOH Mozilla is remote, so there have literally the whole world sending over CVs.

It's not just CS degree students who are applying. Code camps are pumping out junior programmers who are applying to every job listing they can find. It used to be you sifted through 10 resumes before finding 1 good one. I'm told that number has increased to 100 to find 1 good one.

Now, I don't know for sure if that's hyperbole or not, but that's the impression I'm getting from talking to hiring managers.

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

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Post by pygoscelis » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

Swift Navigation — Multiple Positions — Full Time — San Francisco — Onsite

Swift Navigation (https://swiftnav.com) is building next-generation GPS technology for universal high-accuracy positioning for machine automation and data collection across a wide variety of industries and applications in autonomous transportation, robotics, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Our ~50 person group in SOMA is venture-backed and we have an exciting slate of customers!

Our work is very interdisciplinary and all roles require strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. See full descriptions and apply at https://jobs.lever.co/swift-nav

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

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Post by jack7890 » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events.

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

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Post by shacker » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

Duolingo is hiring in Pittsburgh, PA, multiple positions ONSITE, VISA.

https://www.duolingo.com/jobs

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

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Post by Bahamut » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

Mindflash | Palo Alto, CA | Full-Time | Remote or Onsite | US Citizen or Green Card only

We are a small edtech company (~30 people) by El Camino & Page Mill Road in Palo Alto looking to ramp up our engineering team by up to 5 solid mid-level/senior full-stack engineers.

Our company has been around since 1999, and remained small while only having ever raised a seed & Series A round with a single investor. Our product is a learning management system (LMS), which allows our clients to educate their users. It was recently ranked #4 in Fortune's most flexible workplaces[1], and I have the pleasure of saying that this is the best company I have worked at thus far due to the combination of excellent management/executives, and tremendous work-life balance enjoyed by all, as well as ample opportunity to move technology forward. In addition, we have better gender balance at the company than most in the area, including in engineering - we strive to be inclusive, although primarily we just want people who are awesome to work with, including being considerate to others.

We have a smart & burgeoning engineering group that is working on some interesting problems. Our tech stack includes Node.js (v4), Angular 1 & 2, MySQL, Elasticsearch, & Jenkins, as well as Selenium with Java 8 on the QA automation side. There is a lot of opportunity across the stack to touch many different areas to make improvements. We are open to trying different technologies as well, and have a culture of writing tests for our code. We strike a great balance of keeping product quality high while creating the ability to address technical debt, and get raving reviews from our clients for ease of use.

We are willing to relocate able candidates, or allow working remote if the candidate is willing to work roughly standard Pacific time working hours (9 am - 5 pm PT).

Our interview process generally involves no whiteboarding or live coding, and instead focuses on experience & ability to design software while working on a team.

Please contact me at wesley.cho(at)mindflash.com if interested in more details - no recruiters please, I will not respond.

[1] http://fortune.com/best-workplaces-flexibility/