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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by LukeG » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:13 PM UTC

agotterer wrote: post #30

markessien wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's the New York scene for tech jobs? I'm going to try for a job in New York at some point (more in direction C++), but New York is not particularly know for being a tech hub in this sense. What's your personal impression about the availability of non-web related programming jobs?

This city does has non web related businesses. New York is known for finance and stocks. I have a friend who writes financial modeling software for a hedge fund. The scene does exist, but you have to go look for it. If you expect to go into a cafe and be surrounded by developers and tech folks, you will be vastly disappointed. The more events and meetups I attend the more I realize that this city is full of great tal…

http://www.nextny.org/ and http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ are pretty established, but I can't speak for their quality myself.

(um or http://startuply.com/#/in%20new%20york/1)

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by dustineichler » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:17 PM UTC

alanlewis wrote: post #26

We are (Ning): http://about.ning.com/jobs.php Software developers (front end PHP focused and backend distrubuted Java focused) and QA engineers are especially needed.

Probably an offline question, but how is Ning to work for?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by bdr » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:18 PM UTC

At Disqus, we're looking for a front-end hero* . The candidate should be good at everything from visual and UI design to Javascript optimization. Email jobs@disqus.com.

*hero is the new rockstar

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by dhouston » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:18 PM UTC

we're hiring a couple badass engineers at dropbox (python/c++; client/desktop app dev experience preferred).

we're backed by yc and sequoia... shoot me an email at drew AT getdropbox.com

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by breck » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:21 PM UTC

brandonkm wrote: post #6

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

we're hiring interns! it helps if your name is darren

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by jfornear » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:23 PM UTC

centraldesktop wrote: post #50

We are hiring developers, php, js, ui, etc...: http://jobs.centraldesktop.com

Your UI opening requires a CS degree? http://jobs.centraldesktop.com/details?o=ui_designer

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by tectonic » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:26 PM UTC

aneel99 wrote: post #29

I'm QA & looking for a job any ideas?

http://casttv.com was looking for a QA, you might contact them.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by bhb » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:29 PM UTC

markessien wrote: post #16

agotterer wrote: post #13

We are hiring PHP developers at Connected Ventures (College Humor and Bustedtees). If you are in the New York area (or willing to relocate), send your resume to techjobs [@] connectedventures.com. I will post more details at Startuply next week.

How's the New York scene for tech jobs? I'm going to try for a job in New York at some point (more in direction C++), but New York is not particularly know for being a tech hub in this sense. What's your personal impression about the availability of non-web related programming jobs?

I have a friend who works for pMDsoft in NYC. He says its got a great startup-like environment.

http://www.pmdsoft.com/ChargeCapture/about_us/developer.html

If you want to talk to him directly, email me at ben at devver.net and I'll put you two in touch.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by ig1 » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:30 PM UTC

LukeG wrote: post #32

agotterer wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This city does has non web related businesses. New York is known for finance and stocks. I have a friend who writes financial modeling software for a hedge fund. The scene does exist, but you have to go look for it. If you expect to go into a cafe and be surrounded by developers and tech folks, you will be vastly disappointed. The more events and meetups I attend the more I realize that this city is full of great tal…

tough time to be in finance...it looks like there's a net job outflow from Wall St, including for engineering positions.

If you're talented it's still not a major issue to get a job in finance, lots of people are getting let go, but the good people are finding new jobs pretty quickly.

Plenty of banks are using this period to ramp up hiring to get the best talent for a bargin. C++ talent is always hard to hire regardless of the market.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by lallysingh » Mon, Nov 24, 2008, 11:31 PM UTC

markessien wrote: post #16

agotterer wrote: post #13

We are hiring PHP developers at Connected Ventures (College Humor and Bustedtees). If you are in the New York area (or willing to relocate), send your resume to techjobs [@] connectedventures.com. I will post more details at Startuply next week.

How's the New York scene for tech jobs? I'm going to try for a job in New York at some point (more in direction C++), but New York is not particularly know for being a tech hub in this sense. What's your personal impression about the availability of non-web related programming jobs?

I just finished a job-search for NYC.

Some hedge funds are hiring, and aggressively.

I get the idea that those hiring are suddenly flush with plenty of good applicants.

I went with Bloomberg, who's still hiring aggressively.

But, I got good leads on openings @ the Ars technica job board.