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

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VMware - Austin, TX / Palo Alto, CA - Software Engineering - Fulltime - Onsite Come join a hardcore engineering team and work on systems that impact millions of people. We are starting multiple engineering teams here in Austin, so various positions available from low-level C development to to high level web development. I have some teams in Palo Alto with similar requirements as well. * C and C++ software engineering…

Are you sponsoring visa for these positions?

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

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Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend | Mountain View | Onsite | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (8 people) looking to make a big change in transportation. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomous, Electric, Shared and Connected. Smartcar is building an API platform to solve the "connected" part of it. We just brought 3 more engineers on the team last month but looking to get 2 more with 2+ years of e…

Are you associated with the Mercedes (Daimler AG)-owned sub-brand, Smart car (http://www.smart.com/ && http://www.smartusa.com)?

If not, are you aware that they exist and if so, how do you think Daimler will react when you get some traction? A lawsuit over the name is certainly bound to be filed by Daimler, don't you think? Do you have any plans to change the name of the company?

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

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Kaggle | San Francisco | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE | Software Engineering Technologies: C#; ASP.NET MVC; React; TypeScript; Docker; Azure. You can read the job req and apply here: http://kaggle.applytojob.com/apply/GjSjOi/Backend-Engineer Kaggle is best known as a platform for machine learning competitions. We have a community of over 600K data scientists. Now also building a sharing-and-collaboration platform (cl…

This is the third month in a row I've seen this posting. I finally worked up the courage to apply and I got shot down immediately. The posting reads to be liberal with the experience levels sought and how much a candidate is willing to learn, so I figured if you're still looking then I would surely have a shot; I have 10 years of C# experience and experience with TypeScript/Angular2 in an enterprise application. I th…

Seems like we're in a similar boat :)

10+ years c# experience trying to get a remote job. Limited open source b/c family and company policy. Also interviewed with Kaggle.

If you think misery loves company, contact @gmail

Maybe we can trade tips.

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

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New Incentives (YC S16) | SF | REMOTE | Full-time New Incentives is a metrics-based non-profit that is creating one of the most cost-effective ways of saving lives. We are looking for a senior engineer who will lead the development of tools to help scale our organization. This role requires strong skills managing backend and frontend services. This is very important for us and we're looking for someone who is motivat…

what is the technology stack?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Startups trying to hire talented & motivated people have to interview around 10 candidates for every hire. By conservation, the average job seeker has to go to 10 interviews, and some will need to do a lot more than 10. So don't assume there's something wrong with you unless you've racked up >50 rejections. Is (10 * a few days) to change jobs is an unreasonable burden? I subscribe to the rule of thumb that you should…

I've spent around a month for just 7 interviews. I made it to 'onsite round' for all of them only to be rejected there, so that compounded my time spent/interview. I am not sure if I want to compare my time to 'startups trying to hire', that comparison seems off to me. I don't have millions and I have kids that I can use my vacation time for.

There are a couple of things worth mentioning here.

1. "I have kids that I can use my vacation time for". If you think this way, you shouldn't apply for a job at a startup. You need to be prepared that there is a good chance for you to not spend a minute with your family, nor to have a vacation, over next months/years.

2. From what I learned, startups don't necessarily hire the best technical person. The are looking for the best motivated one. From what you write, it may appear that you are not really motivated/interested.

A few years back I was looking for a job and spent about half a year to manage that. Got rejected by, probably, 100 companies, and got only two offers. And not because I am a jerk or technically incompetent. It's just in most cases I was not really interested, and I believe people saw that. So, it looked really strange and unfortunate to me, but I totally understand why it happened, and don't blame anyone except for myself.

Usually, it's your fault, in fact. You might be not well prepared, you didn't sleep last night, you don't care about the company/product, you don't have enough skills that they require, you behave offensive, you are late for the interview, and so on.

You know, I am not defending the interviewers and hiring managers, but they all have their point as well. It's you who wants to change your job, so it's all on you. Regardless of how ridiculous the interview process may appear to you.

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

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Space Exploration Technologies | Full-Stack Enterprise SW Engineer | Los Angeles, CA & Seattle, WA | Onsite, Full Time | US Citizen & Permanent Residents Only SpaceX is seeking full-stack developers with 3+ years of experience in: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, and AngularJS. We are a fast-paced, highly iterative team that has to adapt quickly as our factory grows. We need people who are comfortable tackling new problems,…

Oh man, the only C# job on here and it's US only. Time to learn {Go, Rust, Python, Ruby}, I guess.

There are now a shit tonne of C# postings. No need to learn those inferior languages.

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

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Benzinga ( https://pro.benzinga.com , http://benzinga.com ) | Detroit, MI | FULL-TIME | ONSITE & REMOTE Looking for people who love to code, move fast and get shit done: the hackers and hustlers of this world. We need a few grown-ups to help balance the ship. A financial media company at our core, we're fast-moving and high-energy, focused on our users and our product. We reach over 2 million uniques and 214 million…

I don't see remote positions on your jobs site

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

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Notonthehighstreet.com | www.notonthehighstreet.com | Ruby Developer | Full Time | Richmond, Greater London (UK) | ONSITE

We are a curated marketplace that brings together the most unique, stylish and never-before-seen products that are hard to find anywhere else.

That’s why we’re home to more than 5,000 of the UK’s best small creative businesses that we’re proud to call our Partners.

You will building end to end solutions for our Partners to manage their day to day businesses. Our tools help simplify complex calculation for delivery of products to our customers.

Stack: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Java, Go, AWS

Team: We have self-organised product teams who implement a mix of SCRUM, Kanban and Extreme Programming.

Interview: Telephone > Tech Task > Face to Face

OUR STORY: http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/pages/our-story

APPLY: https://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/notonthehighstreet/vms/e/sto...

Contact: yvonneachan-oryema@notonthehighstreet.com

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

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Precision Nutrition | multiple positions | Toronto, ON, Canada | REMOTE (Canada only) | Full-Time http://www.precisionnutrition.com/ Precision Nutrition helps people transform their lives through expert coaching, ongoing support, and guided mentorship. Our team builds and supports tools for our coaches and clients to help facilitate transformative change and learning. Tech stack: Ember.js, Ruby/Rails, Postgresql. htt…

Hi Luke,

I tried applying through the link you shared.

However, upon reaching this page: https://precisionnutrition.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=5

The 'Apply for this job' button fails to send a request back to the server. I noticed you guys are using Bamboo Hr to process incoming applications, and I believe the bug resides inside Bamboo's JQuery, as two events listening to the button appear to be called by Bamboo Hr.

As '...jobs/view.php' plus the job id(which is 5 for this one) as a GET parameter is your websites way of exposing job applications, I took a guess that the button was meant to request '.../jobs/apply?id=5'. Loading that page in my browser was very promising as an application form was rendered!

But now this page appears to be either deprecated or is an artifact: https://precisionnutrition.bamboohr.com/jobs/apply.php?id=5

As you can see, the styling is suspiciously bare-bone and there is no submit button.

Now I could try to craft a POST request by using the form field names and appending my information manually, and perhaps get lucky, but then I still wouldn't know for sure that my application reached anyone at your company.

So here I give up my quest to force my resume onto your server, and am making this account to make this request:

Please advise how I may send you guys my resume to apply for this position.

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

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Thumbtack | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help. We are a friendly, ambitious team of 80 engineers in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food, backed by Sequoia and Google Capital. We'…

don't go here, they will give you a task for 2 weeks, and when you did everything right, they will never reply back to you. You'll have no chance to proof you're right, they just ignore you. They also don't understand CS fundamentals

Why is this "homework/task" so rampant these days? Isn't it better for employer to filter persons first and skills later?
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