Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#1

Post by LukeG » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:16 PM UTC

We're in a recession. Many great, talented people are out of work (including plenty of folks here at HN, I'm guessing). We know, though, that many companies are also still hiring - so let's put these companies and job seekers in touch.

Are you hiring? Does your company (or your friend's) have openings? Let HN know!!! Let's get some good people good jobs.

(We've got 900+ startup jobs at Startuply right now, and we'd love to get you all involved - it's easy and completely free for everyone. That being said, post any openings you know of here, too, to get some love from the best hacker community evar.)

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#2

Post by epi0Bauqu » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:25 PM UTC

Not hiring exactly--looking for co-founders who are in the fortunate situation where they can work for no salary indefinitely (and get equity of course).

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#3

Post by tectonic » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:30 PM UTC

Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:33 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #3

Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=162884

Craigslist used to work wonders for me.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#5

Post by nonrecursive » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:36 PM UTC

Awhile ago I posted my site, http://www.happyjobsearch.com here for feedback. I hope no one minds my mentioning it here again, but it seems relevant.

I wrote the site over a weekend after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. The first time I was laid off, I took a very haphazard approach to looking for jobs and it caused me a lot of stress. I made Happy Job Search to help get organized. It's like a GTD app just for job hunting. It's optimized for quickly adding jobs to your "inbox", then going through and investigating each job, adding notes, and filing the job under a next action (send email, make call, etc). Finally, it's made to be useful for quickly reviewing a job opportunity before you interview.

It takes a little time to actually go through and enter job information, but it really helped me. It's also free. Hopefully others will find it useful as well and won't go through what I did the first time I was laid off :)

(ps, LukeG I'd like to email you but your address isn't listed. Mine is daniel@flyingmachinestudios.com. Thanks!)

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by brandonkm » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:36 PM UTC

Also, posting any internship opportunities would be greatly appreciated as well.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#7

Post by dmpayton » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:37 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #3

Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?

I second this.

I currently have a F/T job at a bay-area startup (which I don't want to leave), but am extremely interested in supplementing my income with some consulting/contract gigs.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#8

Post by bkmrkr » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:38 PM UTC

I am looking for some machine learning guys for quant work. Email me at greggurevich at gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

#9

Post by mhp » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:40 PM UTC

http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by nonrecursive » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 9:40 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #3

Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?

Tectonic, I was an RoR freelancer for 2 years. Here are sites where I've found jobs:

http://jobs.rubynow.com http://jobs.37signals.com http://bostonrb.org/jobs

If you also just google "rails jobs" you'll find the other useful rails job sites out there.

The best way to find work, however, is to build your network. One of the best clients I had was referred to me by a fellow I happened to have lunch with when I was in NYC for a couple weeks. Another of my best clients was referred to me by a friend. Where are you located, btw?

Another way to find work is to find other web development companies and just email them asking if they need help. I've found work this way as well, and have had more success contacting local companies.

edit: One thing that helped a lot was I developed a rails tool (Palmist, http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/projects/) , then I gave a presentation on it at the Boston ruby group. Since then, many interviewers have perked up when I mentioned it because they had either seen it or used it.

Hope this helps!