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We're still a very small team, but our customer base has been expanding rapidly since we took our second round of funding this summer (Led by Founders' Fund, with additional investment from FirstMark and Union Square Ventures).
funded and still quite stealthy you could say littleBiggy is mcluhan meets the white pages. our interview process starts with a sample project you do on your own time and get paid for. we learn about each other through working together and take it from there. i can be reached at fredb.
http://www.gilt.com/company/job/1337
Email me at amanfredi@gilt.com
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"we're backed by yc and sequoia..." ... hmmmm.... I can't say being backed by sequoia is a great thing anymore. Being backed by Sequia means you probably will get fired as soon as the main product is built, to save on "runway" money. Disposable engineer, maybe lucky if you made it through a year and got some of of the stocks vested. Sequoia backing might be great for founders, but with the recent happenings, definite…
Agreed, but not for the same reason. A better response would have been "we have great revenue and broke even X months ago" not "we're funded by VC money and consequently could go under at just about anytime". Also, why are there 170 comments in this thread with many job openings but the 'jobs' section of HN is ... quiet?
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 afterward…
What do I consider? Basically I use three things to try to decide if someone is going to work out at JTV:
1. Codes fluently and happily. I don't care what syntax or language you use, or if you use pseudo-code, but you should be able to do basic things without much thought and you shouldn't be offended or unhappy to spend time coding in an interview.
2. Grasps algorithms. Recursion, trees, lists, big-o notation, etc. I don't care if you can recite the Master Theorem, but you should be able to estimate runtime for a recursive algorithm. I don't care if you know Dijkstra's algorithm, but you should be able to find a shortest path in a graph.
3. Excited to work on the kinds of problems we have at JTV. This is the hardest to judge, obviously. If you don't have any ideas, before or during or after the interview, about something you'd like to do or change at JTV, that's a bad sign. If you don't have any interest in working on our website or on video or on chat, that's a bad sign. If it just doesn't seem like you genuinely want to work at JTV, that's a bad sign. None of these are disqualifying, but they lose a few points. I try not to weight this too highly because it's so easy to read too much into someone's surface personality, but this is the thing I think we've made the most mistakes on in the past.
That's what I go by in hiring, and that's the kind of thing I see discussed when we email about the candidate. So I'm reasonably sure that's what everyone else goes by as well.
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In the common case, if you've looked at thousands of job listings, you're probably not a programming hero.
It sounds like you didn't live through the dotcom boom, when you couldn't go to the movies without seeing several ads begging for developers. If the bust hadn't come along, sooner or later they'd have made a deal to print the help wanted ads on individual cans of Mountain Dew.
Sounds like a startup idea. Built-in revenue model!
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 afterward…
If you say "long hours, low pay, incompetent management" I'll know you're just a sell-out :)
We aren't a start up but if you'd to do more low level programming work there is a Toshiba run shop in Nashville TN working on HDTV software (firmware up through GUI) and we are hiring. C and C++ - Real time programming experience a plus. Unix development - multi threaded - synchronization - blah blah blah, you get the idea.
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 afterward…
On a similar note, can you folks offer advice on how to "form" a team and apply for the summer round of YC if you are applying from overseas? I am from Sydney and am looking to form/join a team with those in the valley or otherwise (as long as they are willing to move to YC ofcourse). I know it sounds silly and absurd. I have been desperate to apply to YC for ages. Only thing that has stopped me were my studies (whic…