Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by WWLink » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:09 AM UTC

applehire wrote: post #235

Apple | Cupertino, CA | Data Engineer |Full time | Onsite Apple is a technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apple's ■redacted■ team is looking for both junior and experienced engineers to work on big data, machine learning and high-scale, low-latency distributed systems. As a part of this team you will…

I've done python-on-spark (and a very tiny bit of scala-on-spark). The scala stuff wasn't bad, but the python stuff was more fun. What do you think about pyspark? :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by donretag » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:13 AM UTC

doh wrote: post #516

donretag wrote: post #510

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Downtown could definitely use more tech-centric companies. Good luck. Once you have decided, definitely list the exact neighborhood with every job ad. Los Angeles is a big place and most do not want to travel to a far off area.

Will do. If it would be up to me, we would move down to El Segundo or Redondo Beach. But my colleagues are not that excited about those areas. Will see if I can sell them on downtown

The far majority of the tech companies are on the west side. Most north of LAX, but there are a few in El Segundo, which you probably know already. Culver City is a good halfway point, especially if you want to avoid the expensive westside and the bad commute if you live much eastward. The Expo Line serves Culver City.

I personally avoid the westside, so I can see why some of your colleagues would too.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by webloem » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:14 AM UTC

moogliedoodle wrote: post #306

guessmyname wrote: post #249

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"We do not care about your academic degrees [...]" Unfortunately embassies do care about these. Getting a work permit to immigrate to another country without an university degree certainly reduces the chances to get the embassy's approval, even in countries like Germany where there is some flexibility — if you have a Senior profile — a degree certainly accelerates the process. In fact, in this industry, there is less…

Just moved to Berlin, no degree. The federal employment agency had to give approval after the contract was signed, which took about 2-3 weeks. Working visa issued after 3 days. HR shouldn't be scared, it's easy and pretty straightforward.

Could you give a bit more background to this? E.g. moved from where, what is your experience level, salary range maybe?

The general advice seems to be that a university degree is almost always required. Having another data point would be helpful!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by elcritch » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:19 AM UTC

skortchmar wrote: post #377

SpaceX | Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Senior Full Stack Software Developer | http://www.spacex.com/careers We seek to accelerate the course of human history by developing the technologies necessary for multi-planetary civilization. Most people think of us as a hardware company, but SpaceX has a strong software group that contributes to everything from vehicle design to literally launching the rocket. The Flight Soft…

As always SpaceX and it's mission is just _cool_ (in a geek sense). However, to be honest, Python + rocket code in the same sentence perturbs me somewhat. Python is great for web automation tools and simple scripting situations, but for the love of humanity (seriously, because space travel & exploration), I shudder at the idea of Python being used in a complex rocket control system. Does the team use other tools for embedded or distributed controls?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by kahrkunne » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:23 AM UTC

erklik wrote: post #485

stevebmark wrote: post #479

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"myusername@google.com" ...?

i think its something like this @google.com therefore, replacing with ciaravino. Therefore, email is ciaravino@google.com

You know, there's a reason people go through hoops to avoid posting their full email address, so it'd be helpful if you didn't go ahead and post it anyways

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by dang » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:26 AM UTC

spitfire wrote: post #447

I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields. - General mental ability (Are they generally smart) Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use th…

Please don't post this here. It's about hiring, but this thread is about who is hiring.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by hardwaresofton » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:26 AM UTC

scorpioxy wrote: post #387

lj3 wrote: post #218

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Same here. Applied last year and never heard anything. It makes me wonder if they're resume farming.

And a third me too. I'm not sure if it is resume farming but I didn't appreciate that I didn't at least get a "no thank you" email. This isn't unique to them but it does make me hesitant in ever applying there again or even recommending the place as an employer or vendor.

welp, was about to apply but this string of comments just changed my mind.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by dang » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:28 AM UTC

iandanforth wrote: post #280

Is there any way these roles could impact the horrendous customer service for which Comcast is infamous?

This is not an acceptable place to post attacks about something extraneous, so please don't do that here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303953 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by dymmyd » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:32 AM UTC

chondl wrote: post #319

dymmyd wrote: post #262

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Are you only interested in mid to senior level software engineers?

No. I'm OK either with completion of an undergraduate degree in related field OR experience demonstrated through either 2-3 years working as a software engineer or equivalent open source software contributions.

I'm interested, however, I fall into the jr. category.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

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Post by rasmi » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:32 AM UTC

elcritch wrote: post #544

skortchmar wrote: post #377

SpaceX | Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Senior Full Stack Software Developer | http://www.spacex.com/careers We seek to accelerate the course of human history by developing the technologies necessary for multi-planetary civilization. Most people think of us as a hardware company, but SpaceX has a strong software group that contributes to everything from vehicle design to literally launching the rocket. The Flight Soft…

As always SpaceX and it's mission is just _cool_ (in a geek sense). However, to be honest, Python + rocket code in the same sentence perturbs me somewhat. Python is great for web automation tools and simple scripting situations, but for the love of humanity (seriously, because space travel & exploration), I shudder at the idea of Python being used in a complex rocket control system. Does the team use other tools for…

The job description above is for internal user-facing tools. Mission-critical systems are done in C++.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/slug/c8bpr00