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Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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At Lever, we write about what skills we are hiring for in a very different way we call an Impact Description. It outlines the role in terms of our expectations for 1, 3, 6, and 12 months into the job.

Here is the description for our Backend Engineering role, a really cool new role that we're hiring the first of onto our Platform Team to compliment our Full-stack engineering team: https://jobs.lever.co/lever/7ab138b0-b5c8-425d-93ae-2fc2b051...

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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post #81

At Lever, we write about what skills we are hiring for in a very different way we call an Impact Description. It outlines the role in terms of our expectations for 1, 3, 6, and 12 months into the job. Here is the description for our Backend Engineering role, a really cool new role that we're hiring the first of onto our Platform Team to compliment our Full-stack engineering team: https://jobs.lever.co/lever/7ab138b0-…

I really like this approach. Very clear and gives the candidate a good idea of what work they will be undertaking.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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I manage the Google Container Engine and Kubernetes team in Seattle (we have other sites in Mountain View and Warsaw). Aside from the obvious interest in building container orchestration systems, I look for a passion to solve real user problems, not only building a piece of tech. Bonus points for knowing about Docker or containers or clouds or Golang or security. More points for meeting users where they are. And the…

Wow, working with Google would be a dream come true for me. However, most of my experience is with Amazon ECS and Docker, tried a bit of Mesos.

? Why is that a "however"? You have bonus points already!

Apply and make your dream come true!

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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I always look for people that are clearly very technical but who I feel I want to work with. There are some amazing developers that have zero people skills and for whom the word pragmatic doesn't exist. If you can explain complex technology in a way my CFO can understand you will also build a product for that level of user as well.

If you have that, breadth in projects and technology and you are genuinely excited by the opportunity I have on offer then I have found that a good mix.

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#85
FastMail in Melbourne is going to be hiring for skills in three languages: middleware (Perl), frontend (Javascript) and support (English) early next year.

It's not so much specific tech skills as attitude. We're strong on pragmatism with a touch of pride in doing it right. Pragmatism without that pride in quality leads to hacks that are unmaintainable - obsession over perfect without pragmatism leads to never delivering.

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post #67

Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement. Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features for the past five years and that pgsql would have been just fine (had people read some boyce-codd anyhow).

What's so special about NodeJS:

* It has a revolutionary module system (Common JS) witch allows less coupling, more code reuse and better abstractions.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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post #67

Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement. Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB's changelog has consisted of standard SQL features for the past five years and that pgsql would have been just fine (had people read some boyce-codd anyhow).

What do you put in your job ads? Usually all I see is a list of tech that I haven't had the inclination to learn as it seems like a step backwards for the majority of use cases- e.g. MongoDB in place of relational databases.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not op, but: IMO somewhat uninformed opinion (longtime dev on two of the biggest platforms, played a bit with node etc a few times) the Javascript ecosystem has seems to have numerous issues. Here is my impression: - being equally bad or worse than php in a number of ways (I used to write php, the right way ; ) -to: having bad dependency management -to: the complete ecosystem being in a churn, always. Like if php con…

Node.js is great, but the ecosystem needs to be run by people with an attention span that's longer than 5min I use node.js, but doing things the "node.js" way is just crazy. You don't make a higher level project depend on a package manager

You don't have to use the latest and greatest. Walking slowly, will make you able to cover more distance in the long run.

Re: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

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post #78

On the frontend side of things I'm looking less for specific framework experience and more for overall programming competency. JavaScript development moves so fast now that it really doesn't make sense to scope your hiring to angular, react, etc.

It doesn't make sense to scope to specific languages, but even fewer people seem to get that.

Extremely true. I am always laughing when people ask for specific javascript framework (especially for frontend), and don't agree if you don't know the specific language (let's say Clojure), but know JVM – even with experience with another dialect of LISP (or another functional language)!

But it is really sad that people mostly hunt for keywords in resume.

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#90

I am 100% owner of an internet company making 7 figure profits annually. I am extremely secretive of my business, almost to the point that some would consider a pathology. However, I will divulge my hiring strategy, because even if everyone uses my method, there will still be many employees for me to choose from. I look to hire people who just need a job. People who are qualified, but not overly qualified. People I k…

When they get bored after 6 months, they quit and go somewhere else

I thought you had 100% retention rate?

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