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

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Post by karmicthreat »

meritt wrote: 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).

These are actually the things I have come to value as well. Especially tenacity. It seems like a distressingly large number of devs just wilt under failure. I am always interested in people who can reverse a failing project or system even if it was their own failure to begin with.

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Post by ClassyJacket »

brongondwana wrote: post #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 deliver…

Do you have any insight what it's like getting into this industry here in Melbourne? I've been teaching myself JavaScript and built a functional, interactive site. But speaking to an agency yesterday, they said they wouldn't even consider looking at anything for me where I hadn't worked for a couple of years already. Chicken and egg problem.

This website seems to be mostly Californians. (Maybe I need to hang out on Whirlpool more.) Is it worse here or better?

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

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Post by ClassyJacket »

Cyph0n wrote: post #16
richardknop wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just took a look at your company's website. Looks interesting but I am a bit confused. Can you explain what is your product? Not 100% sure I understand.

I believe their original product was a song recognition system similar to Shazam. It looks like they've now expanded to other applications related to audio recognition and processing.

It was, and it was better at one point because unlike Shazam, you could sing or hum songs too.

I think they relied on user submissions for that functionality, but if it works it works.

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

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Post by ClassyJacket »

yellowapple wrote: post #97
richardknop wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just took a look at your company's website. Looks interesting but I am a bit confused. Can you explain what is your product? Not 100% sure I understand.

Once upon a time (and probably still now, though it sounds like they've generalized their idea a bit), SoundHound was a Shazam competitor with a nifty feature where you could sing or hum the song and SoundHound would actually manage to figure out what song you're singing. I definitely preferred it over Shazam by a long shot, but its song database was a bit lacking (or maybe the recognition piece was working too hard)…

Is there any reason not to simply download the APK if it's a free app anyway and signed correctly?

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

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Post by eganist »

JamesBarney wrote: post #55
eganist wrote: post #5

So given that I may likely be hiring in the web and mobile application security spaces again next year (I've _somehow_ filled all of my open positions this year; appsec is difficult to fill with external hires), I'm focusing specifically on three skills: • ability to assess tech/architecture risks in apps • experience in devops automation ("secdevops" if you will) • proven skill in communication regardless of depth T…

What are competitive rates for an appsec engineer? I'm a tech lead who's always been interested in appsec(very passively), but it always seemed like a long journey from here to there. And I was under the impression the rates were pretty similar which made the task seem more daunting.

Depends on your locale and the firm. I know of firms in the bay willing to pay well over 200 for lead appsec engineers, but the spread there can be wide and you'd need to meet most of the qualifications for the role to get it.

I can share more detail in private eg on twitter.

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Post by muratsu »

throwaway95837 wrote: post #18

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…

How do you solve management problems when scaling?

I understand your reasoning when it comes to well defined business requirements with well defined technical problems. But once the initial set of requirements are done, how do you proceed? I suspect you need at least some amount of overachievers to fill mid-level management roles.

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

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Post by sjcrank »

When recruiting for web development (heavy JavaScript SPA work), I look for 3 technical skills:

1. Core JavaScript. You should be able to read modern idiomatic JS code pulled from an open source project and explain what it is doing and how you would modify it to add features.

2. Core CSS. You should be able to review Bootstrap source and explain how it works. You should be able to create static HTML/CSS to match UI mockups.

3. Higher level SPA library/framework (e.g. React, Angular, etc). You should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the core concepts of your chosen framework.

I find that these 3 skills are sufficient for productivity in SPA web development.

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Post by w_t_payne »

jayajay wrote: post #69
beachstartup wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

here, i'll paraphrase for you, since i'm a "real world" hiring manager as well, with a business that i keep anonymous/secretive on hn. "a reliable person who can actually, really, like, totally for real drive a problem to resolution and then go spend time with family. if there's an emergency, they pick up their phone and try to help." this is a small percentage of the population, but big enough. it's why we (based in…

That's because super "smart" people are taught that they will have 2-3 weeks to prepare for their biggest problems. In real life, big problems happen overnight, and you wake up to shitstorms. That said, some brilliant people emerge from Ivy Leagues, too.

Funny. I've spent most of my professional career trying my damndest to ensure that those shitstorms do not happen in the first place. :-)

(Not always successfully -- I have to admit -- but I try).

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Post by some1else »

eropple wrote: post #103
z3t4 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's so special about NodeJS: * It has a revolutionary module system (Common JS) witch allows less coupling, more code reuse and better abstractions.

There's nothing "revolutionary" about CommonJS. It's a packaging system that offers simple encapsulation (but so does Java/Kotlin/Scala or C#). There's something different about it, in that it allows concurrent use of different versions--but, frankly, to me that's a demerit, not a positive, 'cause I'd rather keep my dependencies squared away.

I believe there was a way to package and deploy apps with multiple versions of the same deps in the Java world before NodeJS came to be. I remember a buddy candidly explaining those capabilities to me, back when Rails gems were still managed with rake tasks.
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