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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by cperciva »

kschrader wrote: post #41
sokoloff wrote: post #27

Here's a related question: I'll posit that there is a higher density of "very desirable" top-notch hackers being thrown into the job market than at any other time in my 15-year career. You know the people: the ones that rarely hit the normal job market because with one or two emails, they can line up their next gig in an afternoon throught their network or friends-of-friends. For those of us who are hiring, what stra…

Get out and meet them (and their friends) in person. Nothing beats networking. I personally only work through my network when I'm searching for a job. The other key is to move fast. If you want one of these people, don't waste their time with phone interviews and things like that, just get them scheduled to come in as soon as possible. At my last two companies we would bring people in for an afternoon of interviews a…

If you want one of these people, don't waste their time with phone interviews and things like that, just get them scheduled to come in as soon as possible.

I wouldn't worry about skipping the phone screen. But if your phone screener comes away saying "wow, this guy is amazing", bring them in for face-to-face meetings as soon as you can.

It's far more important to make sure that when you bring someone on-site, you make good use of that time. I'll forgive an hour spent on a phone screen far more easily than a day wasted because I flew down to San Francisco for a day of interviews with the wrong people.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by bdr »

wheels wrote: post #79
bdr wrote: post #53

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

Just for the record, if I were looking for a job, and you used hero (or ninja, or rockstar) in the title, I wouldn't take you guys seriously. This seems to be a common sentiment.

Hence the footnote. It's a little in-joke that it seems you didn't find funny. I encourage anyone who's turned off by that part of the job post to please apply anyways. My above post was made as an individual, not as a representative of the company, and cannot be taken as a representative sample of Disqus's mean level of seriousness.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by krschultz »

krschultz wrote: post #97
LukeG wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 )

I found my job through nextNY (Bug Labs) and my girlfriend found hers through new-tech, and the connection from that job led to the one she is currently at. Anecdotes != conclusions, but for us it worked very well.

Probably should plug my own place huh?

In NYC

http://buglabs.net/jobs

We're often putting up new jobs. At the moment we are looking for a QA engineer and a business intern (that one is probably San Fransisco but I'm not sure).

I'm not very in tune with our hiring but for a while we were looking for development engineers too. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to drop a resume if you have experience with embedded Linux development (OpenEmbedded especially), JavaME/PhoneME, Eclipse plug-in development, and a passion for open source.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by utefan001 »

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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by palish »

justin wrote: post #44

Justin.tv is hiring the best and the brightest to hack on our awesome live video site. In fact, we have almost as many graduate degrees as we do college drop outs! If you're a sysadmin, network engineer, or programmer, you can find work here: http://www.justin.tv/jobs

"In fact, we have almost as many graduate degrees as we do college drop outs!"

Hmm... This post is difficult for me. On one hand, I don't want to negatively impact Justin.tv. On the other hand, I feel obligated to let everyone know that if you don't have a college degree or other qualifying credentials, you probably won't get hired there.

I went in for an interview, and as far as I could tell, I passed. But afterwards, Justin took me to a bookstore across the street and told me that their investors felt they needed to hire "more qualified" developers. So I wasn't brought on board.

My credentials: I dropped out of high school when I got hired in the gamedev industry. When I went in for the interview, I had been in the industry for about three years, and had been programming in general for 8. So if you have credentials similar to mine, it would probably be better to not waste the time in the interview. But if you have credentials that would convince an investor that you should be hired (college degree, etc), then go for it.

Sorry, JTV. I wasn't going to say anything until I saw "we have almost as many graduate degrees as we do college drop outs" ... this gives people a false sense of hope, from my point of view.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by icky »

LukeG wrote: post #47
icky wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start with simple and fast screens, then progress to more fine-grained tests. A simple programming question will filter out a huge chunk of the candidates (i.e., those not smart enough to code or to cheat), then email screen, phone screen, and then an in-person interview. You should also figure out _exactly_ what qualities are most important in a candidate, and which ones you're willing to overlook. Generally, I test…

We'd love to talk to companies that use coding tests in the hiring process. Do they work? How well? Any insight into the design of good filters screens?

Yes, they work wonderfully. Start with simple, quick-to-solve and quick-to-check problems, since the vast majority of applicants can't actually code.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by sanswork »

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