Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

HackerRank - https://hackerrank.com/ - Palo Alto, CA & Bangalore, India.

About: Building the olympics of programmers. HackerRank is building an engaged community of programmers across different domains of Computer Science (AI, ML, Databases, security, etc.)

We are witnessing a growth of 32.4% in the active users month over month and the retention rates are soaring. Here's an example for the week of Oct-28 (http://bit.ly/18vVfpJ) - % of users who come back after week-2, week-3 & week-4.

"If 30% of users return to your site after 3 weeks, you're onto something" - Bing Gordon. And we are much more than that after 4 weeks.

Investors: We are a part of YC summer batch of 2011, backed by Vinod Khosla and a team of 28 growing incredibly fast in a huge market (http://on.wsj.com/17stW9f)

Enterprise: Our enterprise product (white-labeled version) is used by some of the top tech companies (Facebook, Amazon, Square, Palantir, Evernote, Quora, etc.) for making their interview process effective. That's how we make money right now and we are going to hit a $1M in revenue very very soon.

Hiring: We are hiring for various roles (hackers, sales, marketing, PM's) at both the places. If you're interested, please send me your online profile or resume to vivek [at] hackerrank. It'll be one of the best decisions in your life. Looking forward!

London, UK -part time/intern (sorry, no remote work, and we can't help with visas)

NBCUniversal - Research Assistant, Data Science & Predictive Analytics.

We're no startup. We're the special operations team for the corporate world.

We're hunting for engaging problems and opportunities to create real value for our marketing, sales, and research teams throughout our international businesses (television, movies, news, and home entertainment).

You'll be helping us on a variety of problems - little ones like writing a script to hack a third party's website and collect info on our products, to large ones like creating a model that can show our products value through time. In all cases you'll be working closely with the a senior engineer and either senior corporate management or a business unit in TV, film, or news. A typical week might look like this:

* Meet with the head of sales for a UK TV channel, learn about a problem they're facing trying to get an accurate value for advertisement slots.

* Discuss what you learned with the rest of team. Someone suggests that a nearest-neighbors regression on data from the marketing team might help.

* A senior dev helps you implement the algorithm and a UI for the sales team to use it.

* Spend some time with the sales team to see if it's creating any value, look for improvements.

What we use (We list this to tell you what we're like, not to tell you what languages we expect to see on a CV):

* Racket. We're big fans lisp and functional programming.

* Bash. We create a lot of value with small dirty hacky shell scripts, and we aren't shy about it.

* Whatever gets the job done, and whatever we think might be fun to use. Python, R, Javascript, Hadoop, EC2. We even wrote code in Fortran once (we don't like to talk about it.)

Who we're looking for:

Most importantly, you should be an intelligent problem solver who wants to apply whatever programming and maths knowledge you have to real world problems. We're not fussed about what languages are on your CV.

You have some familiarity with functional programming, machine learning, and linux/bash scripting, and you're eager for a chance to use it on real-world problems with support from other programmers. Given the predictive modeling angle, you're probably studying or have studied maths, stats, or even physics.

These are two assistant/internship positions for students looking for experience while doing their degree. Alternatively, if you can take on several projects in a full time role, please get in touch, too. We're pretty flexible.

Interested? My contact details are in my profile. Get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.

Apologies if you've contacted me before from outside London and I didn't get back to you. :( If you contacted me from London and didn't hear back, please do so again!

Rap Genius (YC S11) - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com – Help us build the Wall of History jobs@rapgenius.com

IF YOU PASS OUR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW AND RECEIVE A JOB OFFER FROM US, WE'LL GIVE YOU $1,000 CASH (even if you don't take the job!) http://news.rapgenius.com/2368105

We're one of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, we get 25MM unique visitors per month, we've raised $15m from Andreesen Horowitz, and yet our tech team is only seven people. Anyone who joins us is going to have the best of both worlds, you'll work on a product that millions love and use while getting the experience of being a part of a small team and helping define the culture.

WHO WE ARE

We're a tiny, quick-shipping team. Each of us makes product decisions and owns whole features. We're close and we all enjoy spending time together. We’re a small team because we’re picky about who joins us. We have one of the hardest technical interviews in NYC but if you make it, you’re going to be on the best team around. Our house library includes Metaprogramming in Ruby; Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid; POODR; and "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?". Loving rap is not a prerequisite for working here, though an appreciation osmoses to everyone after a while.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

We started Rap Genius in 2009 to explain the meaning of rap lyrics, but the big vision goes beyond music and touches all of text – whether it's the Bill of Rights (http://news.rapgenius.com/62958), the Bible (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/237774), “The Waste Land” (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/83150), or the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling (http://news.rapgenius.com/1910390), it's all on Rap Genius (or Poetry Genius, or News Genius, or... you get the idea). One of our favorite recent examples is Junot Diaz's amazing annotations on an excerpt from his own The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/2002590).

BENEFITS

  * Bomb salary and equity—you won't be taking a pay cut to work here

  * We don't count vacation days

  * Free meals in the office, free unlimited Seamless, free unlimited Fresh Direct

  * Free gym in the building

  * We pay your phone bill and when you join we'll upgrade you to the newest iPhone

  * Laundry and shower in the office

  * Free indoor bike parking

  * Free health, dental, and vision benefits

  * The deluxe computer setup of your choice

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  * Experienced full-stack Rails engineers

  * Front-end developers with an eye for design

  * iOS devs to help build our upcoming iPhone app

INTERESTED?

Hit us up at jobs@rapgenius.com with:

  * Your name and GitHub profile, your Twitter, blog, StackOverflow account, personal website, etc.

  * A cool side project you built, library you've released, or some code that's impressive

  * Something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you've used

  * Your résumé

  * Apply if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate. Our office is in Williamsburg, and it's awesome.

Mandiant - REMOTE or located in New York or D.C. areas - I work at Mandiant, a cybersecurity company, and we need Rails and Node.js programmers for some projects we are working on. If you're interested in chatting about it, email me at my HN username at gmail.

dicks! glows! i'm interested. let's chat via email. my email is fadysfca@gmail.com. i have a few questions :) i actually just visited seattle and loved both of those places!