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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by ews » Wed, Nov 26, 2008, 6:30 AM UTC

Ok, I was thinking whether to post this here or not for a couple of days, we are not a fancy startup (quite the opposite) and our requirements are far from common, but since it seems there are quite some people looking for jobs, there it goes

We are also hiring on Craigslist and actively looking for developers (aka rockstarts, pirates, ninjas, heroes, barbarians, wizards of oz) with knowledge and experience on perl/mysql/sphinx/javascript-jquery/css

we do what we do, our frontend is as unsexy as it looks (and I really hope this will change in a future) but we have a lot of interesting problems related to massive amounts of data and traffic/spam/scaling.

mail at pablo at craigslist.org

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by ComputerGuru » Wed, Nov 26, 2008, 4:01 PM UTC

Google is still hiring, got an email from them today.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by asmosoinio » Thu, Nov 27, 2008, 5:03 AM UTC

palish wrote: post #207

asmosoinio wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, I guess you were given a straight answer. Anyway for some reason you original reply sounded to me pretty much like: "these guys did not give me a job, they suxxors! Don't go near them!" Often you do not know the reason for not hiring. "Just does not feel right" or "gut feeling" may be the real reason, and then you try to rationalize it somehow. Hiring is not an exact science.

"these guys did not give me a job, they suxxors! Don't go near them!" No sir, that wasn't my intention at all. :) JTV's interview was extremely rigorous, and they all seem like great hackers. In that regard, they r0x0rz. Unfortunately, their investors may have the final say as to whether you are hired or not, which is what I wanted to tell everyone.

No harm done. :) I guess what made me comment in the first place is that I have found your comments here very thoughtful and good.

I still this this statement is an unfair generalization based on your personal experience:

"...if you don't have a college degree or other qualifying credentials, you probably won't get hired there."

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by aaronsw » Fri, Nov 28, 2008, 6:26 AM UTC

watchdog.net is looking for good people:

http://transparencyjobs.com/jobs/49/

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Post by LukeG » Sat, Nov 29, 2008, 8:38 PM UTC

krschultz wrote: post #103

krschultz wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 develop…

bug labs is doing awesome stuff, people should go work here. I would (try) if I wasn't caught up with this whole YC thing.