Axolotl Corp is hiring two full-time developers in San Jose, CA to work on enterprise clinical data sharing applications for the healthcare industry. This involves both front-end web applications and back end data processing. Current major platforms include: Java/J2EE, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM DB2, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SOAP, HL7. We care more about intelligence, problem-solving, and understanding of fundamental development concepts rather than skill with any particular programming language. The company is not a start-up any more but still fairly small.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was doing some work this past summer trying to extract good feature sets from job ads so users could train a neural network to help filter through ads. I see there are a lot of sites that to do something for employers but its good to see someone else thinking of job seekers. Not much out there for us and I think an opportunity exists for someone that can optimize and organize the process with us in mind.
I have(/had) a project in this area as well, and I kept stumbling over the monetization problem-- job seekers are a population that has a strong disincentive to parting with their money. NotchUp has an interesting play on this problem, though hard to say if they're getting any traction. Obviously the employers and recruiters are the ones holding the money, so most solutions tend to cater to their dealflow needs. Any…
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#163Long shot but does anyone have anything around Sacramento?
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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 afterward…
What is your point? That your single case of not getting the job means that it is not true that they hire college drop outs? I mean there is plenty of other things than just experience related to hiring someone. "More qualified" may well be a nice way to say "you don't seem to fit in" or whatever their reason not to hire you.
Would you rather be told:
"Listen bud, you're talented, but not quite right for us due to X, Y, and Z."
... or ...
"Sorry, we want to hire you, but our investors won't let us."
If that was the case (and I don't think it was), then the latter is a cop-out. You don't make up reasons not to hire someone, no matter how much you want to. You'd be doing a disservice both to the candidate and to yourself.
My single case is just that: a data point. Weigh it along with all your other data points before making your interview/no interview decision.
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#165Justin.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
The cynic in me thinks you are expanding since you got that CNN mention recently.
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#166Here'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…
Show some respect during the interview process. Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person. I interviewed with a company that had a technical recruiter who knew technology and I was very impressed by them for that. Also keep in mind, how you run the interview process says volumes about what its like to work in your company. Taking > 2 weeks between responses shows lack of interest. Maki…
Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person.
There are definitely benefits to this, as you mention, but taken to the extreme (all recruiting is done by engineers), it's a pretty high cost to the company's productivity.
Think about it from the other perspective: would you, as an engineer, want to work at a company where a significant portion of your job is recruiting? If you were the CEO, would you rather your engineers focus on recruiting or on engineering?
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#167BumpTop is hiring developers too, all the way up in Toronto, Canada! http://bumptop.com
C++, OpenGL or Flex. Email me if interested anand at bumptop.com
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Don't worry, there's no permanent damage, and Disqus does seem like an interesting company. :-) I think I, and a lot of people, respond to ninja, etc., negatively not because They're Silly Words And This Is Serious Business, but just because they're tired and non-descriptive. I have about the same response to something like, "Senior Solutions Manager". It's not a logical reaction based on evaluating the company, more…
"I think I, and a lot of people, respond to ninja, etc., negatively"
Unfortunately words like that have become a bit "buzzy" with HR and management (non-techie) types: "Oh, so all we have to do is say 'ninja' or 'rockstar' and we're instantly cool and really talented people will want to work here. Can I be a rockstar too, pls?"
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#169Ever thought of moving to India?
Directi ($300MM, Internet Products, DNS + Infrastructure) is looking for Tech Leads and Engineers.
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#170Senior Web-developer - San Francisco, Netherlands, Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK.
We are looking for a really experienced HTML / CSS programmer/designer preferably with a background in Python and Django. Some PHP experience is of course useful. Provable work on open source code is a merit.
This is a fulltime position.