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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Post by JOnAgain »

Los Angeles, CA (H1B Transfer welcome)

ThinkNear - Software Engineer

ThinkNear is building the infrastructure to help usher in the post-PC era. We help the mobile app ecosystem thrive by enabling developers to make money from their apps, consumers to enjoy free experiences, and advertisers to reach relevant consumers in a privacy friendly way.

We are tackling hard and interesting technical challenges, creating massive opportunity, and having a ton of fun in the process. We’re always looking for ambitious, driven self-starters who want to be on the leading edge of developing technology.

We are looking for a top tier software engineer or chronically under-recognized hacker. Along the top of your resume, you could list 30-odd acronyms from SQL to XML and back through the JVM a dozen times, but hate the idea that that’s what companies will evaluate you on. You don’t code, you craft. Your solutions are as elegant as they are simple. You love getting that perfect solution that takes only 4 lines of code instead of an ungodly 6. You have experience building real products in the real world.

Final note: The Software Development Engineer position is for one of the first few engineers. You’ll be in a position to shape the direction of the code, the team, the product, and the company. We’re looking for people who are excited by that.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Post by suhail »

ecaron wrote: post #48

Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow. Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.

We're simply looking for more people and our bar is high enough that we don't always find the right people.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Post by Udo »

ecaron wrote: post #48

Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow. Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.

  Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads?
I've been posting to some of these threads occasionally, nothing ever happend. While I guess some of us are getting gigs out of it, I believe the majority probably don't. On the other hand, my skillset (doing PHP apps, but not a web designer) is not in demand to be fair.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

#96

Post by jbox »

Mobify, Vancouver, Canada.

Director of Engineering

Mobify is a growing, profitable, bootstrapped startup. Our goal is to build a web where every website delivers and amazing experience on every device. We serve millions of pageviews for companies like Starbucks, Threadless and Conde Nast using a combination of client/server side JavaScript.

We're looking for an experienced technical manager with a history of delivering successful web products.

We have a glee club, yoga classes and an awesome team.

http://mobify.com/company/jobs/#job-list

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Post by inessence »

ecaron wrote: post #48

Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow. Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.

Actually, I did get hired thanks to the Nov 2011 HN thread - one post in particular caught my eye and while I initially just asked for more details, I ended up starting my new position there in December.

Obligatory segue: incidentally, OkCupid Labs (San Francisco, CA) is still growing and looking to hire in a few areas, including design (visual, UX, and/or UI welcome), front-end dev, and senior software engineering. I don't know much about the last one, but for more info on the first two, you can ping me via chang at okcupidlabs. Or the jobs page works too: http://jobs.okcupidlabs.com/.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

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Post by madaxe »

Bath, England:

We've got a variety of technical positions (developers, QA, Systems) at our eCommerce development shop building a cutting edge platform with plenty of nitty-gritty engineering and high volume sites on a SaaS platform.

Further info, see the site!

http://www.blubolt.com/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

#100

Post by jcn »

New York, NY

Indaba Music - http://www.indabamusic.com/ - gives musicians reasons and opportunities to make music. We launched in 2007 and over the past five years our community has grown to over 650,000 musicians from almost every country on earth. Our musicians compose, record, and remix music for fun and professional opportunities. We have created original songs for brands like Red Bull, Bacardi, and the NFL and have remixed music for Yo-Yo Ma, Linkin Park, Metric, T-Pain, Peter Gabriel, Snoop Dogg, and dozens of other incredible artists.

We're looking for developers and web designers who are passionate about music and believe that the music industry is more alive than ever.

  - We code Ruby
  - We code Javascript
  - We love AWS
  - We
We believe in test coverage and giving our developers a fair amount of autonomy. We have a large code base and are happy to experiment with it for a better experience for our users and our developers.

Email jobs@indabamusic.com or find out more on our jobs page (which is mostly a re-telling of this post):

http://www.indabamusic.com/about/jobs

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