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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 troygoode »

IsaacL wrote: post #175
troygoode wrote: post #3

We're an Enterprise B2B SaaS company headquartered in San Francisco. Our stack is node.js/React/Postgres so knowing any/all of those is a bonus, but we don't specifically target those skills – we instead look for a diverse, intelligent set of engineers who have a strong technical background or a newer technical background but heavy experience in a non-programming field (mathematics, economics, architecture, teaching,…

Funny to see you here! By the way, what happened to shintolin.com?

Still up and running! You should log in and give it a try. :-)

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

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Post by rinchik1 »

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…

Sounds like a 50 Shades of Gray scenario...

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

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Post by bing111 »

IndianAstronaut wrote: post #57
bsvalley wrote: post #7

People who can be micro-managed and used as resources. People who will do the job.

>People who can be micro-managed and used as resources This might explain why companies want H1Bs so much. Places like India and others tend to produce very pliable candidates who will just take orders and execute. I think this is a much bigger factor than wages.

Precisely. Even though I am not from India, I used to be on H1B myself till 6 months ago and was very afraid I would lose my job and worked very hard and did every order my boss gave me. Gosh, he was such a micromanager but I had to swallow it. Anyways, I got my Green Card 6 months ago and I changed to another team finally and can freely speak my mind now :)

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

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Post by tomne »

beachstartup wrote: post #106
tomne wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That pitch is great, if rarely seen. My job entails emergencies from time to time, and it's rewarding to solve an issue at the customer, before it gets out of hand, while still solving problem on the long-term roadmap during the day. What I do regret is the complete lack of remote, meaning I will pretty much leave this job soon, as my fiancée is currently living on the other side of the planet. It's great to see comp…

> Are you still looking for applicants? i don't recruit on hn. i will say this though: most people like you, if given the opportunity to work for a smaller, unknown firm for less money remotely, and a larger well known 'famous' firm for more money on-site, they will usually choose the latter even if they really want to work remotely. in other words, "i want to work remotely" usually really means, "i wish i had all th…

> I don't recruit on hn.

I can't blame you on that one.

Still, I want to address something. Remote work is a different paradigm, it doesn't make a lot of sense to compare the two of them. The upsides are pretty different, and so are the downsides.

I'm sure some people do not realise it requires a wildly different skill set, as well as a different mindset, to work remotely. The first thing that comes to mind is communication, the next is processes, and that's not the end of the list.

I'd take the job getting me closer to my loved ones any day over a job at BigCo personally, especially considering I feel strongly about the upsides. To each his own, I guess.

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

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Post by z3t4 »

eropple wrote: post #179
z3t4 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NodeJS allows lexical (function) scoping of modules. I do not know any other language that allows this. Function scoping allows better decoupling when functions do not depend on the outer scope. And modules in NodeJS are truly modular as they contain all their dependencies, even libraries.

The former: I'd like to know how this is better than, say, assembly-level scoping in a PCL in C#. It's different , but I wouldn't call it better , and I wouldn't say that it enables better decoupling--just decoupling at a different level. The latter: as mentioned in my previous post, this is, to me, a misfeature. Transitive dependencies being encapsulated in a dependency increases the likelihood that those dependenci…

all variables in JS are private. Nodejs module require's are private in method scope. all modules in nodejs are open souece, when you find a bug you make a pull request. Popular modules are used by many, bugs tend to surface quickly. Semver versioning is used, so its usually safe to upgrade minor (bug fixes)

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

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Post by eropple »

z3t4 wrote: post #195
eropple wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The former: I'd like to know how this is better than, say, assembly-level scoping in a PCL in C#. It's different , but I wouldn't call it better , and I wouldn't say that it enables better decoupling--just decoupling at a different level. The latter: as mentioned in my previous post, this is, to me, a misfeature. Transitive dependencies being encapsulated in a dependency increases the likelihood that those dependenci…

all variables in JS are private. Nodejs module require's are private in method scope. all modules in nodejs are open souece, when you find a bug you make a pull request. Popular modules are used by many, bugs tend to surface quickly. Semver versioning is used, so its usually safe to upgrade minor (bug fixes)

I'm not sure if you were building a case towards something, but I definitely don't get where you're going. Variables being private or not-private is not particularly meaningful to encapsulation while exports are relying on underscore-conventions to protect your internal state. Modules being open-source or not is not particularly relevant to either question, nor is semver when your transitive dependencies don't upgrade and so you're pulling in hard-to-audit transitive dependencies that may have red flags (and if your answer is "it's open-source, do it yourself", you have a very interesting view of what a developer should be spending time on).

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

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Post by Wheaties466 »

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…

thank you for this answer. I'm glad that this is being enforced because this is literally me 100%. Glad to see that other people are looking for someone like me.

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

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Post by jayajay »

inimino wrote: post #107
jayajay wrote: post #77

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Sorry, that's just how I talk. If we had a past interaction, good to see you again. "Sounds cool so I will avoid it for now, I'll use the old way, get it done and then have fun with it after we solve the problem" I actually feel that there's some great advice here. I mean, great "fucking" advice. People in my community tend to jump into things that are new and shiny, and it makes me feel that I'm missing out sometime…

> Sorry, that's just how I talk. That's under your control, right? > I'd rather call people "old and cynical" and give them a chance to show me why I'm wrong. If you address people respectfully, you will get more fruitful responses. An insult is rarely the best way to start a conversation.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/743193847178608640/dVj_...

Great way to end a conversation.

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

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Post by wilkommen »

gtbcb wrote: post #46

Ability to read code daily, write code when necessary, SQL, understand APIs, and be good in front of enterprise customers. We went through 400 candidates to find a quality Implementation / post-sales Engineer. We're a B2B SaaS company.

_> read code daily, write code when necessary, SQL, understand APIs, and be good in front of enterprise customers._

Where are you located? This is something I can definitely do.

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

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Post by eropple »

some1else wrote: post #120
eropple wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

OSGi, probably. Which is kind of hairy. But it's a difficult problem on the JVM.
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