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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by KevinMS »

gyepi wrote: post #60

Rails Developer - Salem, MA or telecommute Work on back end of customized fashion platform. Lots of interesting and challenging problems. Posting here: http://www.fashionplaytes.com/content/jobs Send me your resume: gsam@fashionplaytes.com

Confused - this looks suspiciously like the craigslist ad that says this is a 3-6 month contract. I'm also getting calls from headhunters saying this is a 6 month contract.

Well I sent you my resume twice and a bulleted list of how there might be a good fit, which in my experience would at least get some response, but I've gotten nothing, so either I'm not up to your standards, which is perfectly reasonable, or you have faulty lines of communication you might want to look into.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by alecthomas »

ccheever wrote: post #36

Palo Alto, CA - Quora http://www.quora.com/jobs We're looking for designers and engineers. - Codebase is mostly Python, JS, and C++ - Real continuous deployment (every git push deploys the new version of the code if all the test pass) - Product w/ traction that is growing quickly - Hard problems to work hard on - Smart people to work with and learn from ( http://www.quora.com/about/team ) jobs@quora.com or e-mail me…

From reading your about page, it sounds like you guys should buy these guys: http://www.xmarks.com (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733941) :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by josegonzalez »

alnayyir wrote: post #99
jorgeortiz85 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Server engineer is very broad. Could be anywhere on the stack from front-end work with HTML/CSS/JS to very deep in the guts of our application code working on performance and scalability, or anywhere in between. Job description: http://foursquare.jobscore.com/jobs/foursquare/server-side-s... Operations engineer would be focused less on our application code and more on managing our EC2 infrastructure. Anywhere from im…

From what I can tell, you've melded a backend and frontend dev for the server engineer role. Thanks for your time, but you require a degree, so I'm out.

I'm with you on this. I don't understand why companies limit themselves to people with degrees. It's not like half the good (a relative term, I know) developers haven't dropped out to do awesome things anyhow.

I'm pretty happy my company - SeatGeek, we're hiring full-time devs, see jack7890's post - is understanding of my wish to complete my education. Hopefully you can find a similar placement somewhere :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by robryan »

cperciva wrote: post #58
coffeemug wrote: post #35

Mountain View, CA. RethinkDB ( http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs ). Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company. Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe. This is everything we stand for: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713

Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company. Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe. Judging by the fact that it has been over a year since the most recent code on the RethinkDB website was released, you might want to add "take the time to solve problems properly rather than throwing togethe…

It does, but in both cases the products are something that need to be executed right or risk losing customer data. So a bit harder to release a database more often if your not just tinkering with new concepts and want to be taken seriously.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by amock »

randfish wrote: post #94

Seattle, WA (in our awesome new offices near Pike Place Market) - SEOmoz is hiring senior engineers/developers, a senior scientist (heavy math/stats background and interest in web search/information retrieval). Get in touch with Kate@SEOmoz.org Thanks!

I just saw a talk by someone from SEOmoz at the Seattle Hadoop meetup and it sounds like you have some really interesting work.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by alnayyir »

josegonzalez wrote: post #134
alnayyir wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I can tell, you've melded a backend and frontend dev for the server engineer role. Thanks for your time, but you require a degree, so I'm out.

I'm with you on this. I don't understand why companies limit themselves to people with degrees. It's not like half the good (a relative term, I know) developers haven't dropped out to do awesome things anyhow. I'm pretty happy my company - SeatGeek, we're hiring full-time devs, see jack7890's post - is understanding of my wish to complete my education. Hopefully you can find a similar placement somewhere :)

I've got an offer to extend my 3 month contract with a pretty nice startup about to land in my inbox within a week, so I don't really need a job, (I have plenty of savings anyway), but I like to shop around and keep my eyes open.

Finishing my education is what I did when MIT OCW put their course material for computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, philosophy, and culture online.

I use degree requirements as an anti-indicator for companies. If they're requiring the piece of paper, I know that I'd be punishing myself to go work for them anyway.

I'll take a look at SeatGeek's post. :)

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