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Interesting. Are you also able to track cargo that is held by customs (which suffer from shrinkage due to poor security)?
That's one of our use cases!
Awesome. I actually filled out contact form. =)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't have a LinkedIn profile, get one. Make sure your summary is well written and keyworded with words that recruiters are looking for (and that apply to you) - Rails, C++, graphics, what have you. Flesh out your past jobs section. Keyword these descriptions too as relevant (technologies used, major popular frameworks, libraries, etc). Basically reverse engineer the recruiter's practices - they're using a sea…
Well, that goes much further than I would go in defining "half decent". To me, that comes off as a real Type A, game the system type approach. If the market was really as hot as is often claimed, that would not be remotely necessary in order to be noticed. What I think is going on, having observed from outside for many years, is that a certain subset of companies are fighting over the same small subset of engineers (…
You're not using the technologies that are in demand, you're not writing detailed work histories, and you're not putting key words into your resume, please tell me you do not wonder why you're not being head hunted.
You belittle developers who are trying to advance themselves, their knowledge and make a good living with your Type A thing.
Everything starts off as a flavor of the week, Ruby on Rails was just a flavor of the week type deal and then it became huge. Same with Node now and with other stacks before that.
I've done recruiting, and am just finishing up a round for my company and lazy developers who half ass their resumes are frustrating. Trying to search for someone is a pain in the ass and not everyone is a professional developer, some of us are just developers at small companies trying to expand. If more people had well written LinkedIn profiles it would make our lives easier. If not a LinkedIn than you need to find some way to make yourself visible if you want to be headhunted.
That's not to say it's a bad thing, you can be a very well paid very comfortable developer without ever being head hunted, but having a well made portfolio will make your life easier certainly.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
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I emailed a few months ago. Stock standard response like it was a job application when I actually asked several specific questions. I'm sure you guys are great to work for, but don't promise to read every email if I'm just gonna get a mail merge reply.
Hey there, Great point on this. We've recently had a meeting discussing this in detail, I think you're absolutely right, it doesn't make people feel great to get a standard response like the one you've received. We've been trying to come up with a better way to personally respond to people, which has proven quite difficult. There were 2,000+ applicants last month and I think we're still trying to figure out the best…
Hi Leo,
I applied and received a form rejection (which I am actually OK with and totally understand) but when I sent two followup emails I heard no response back. If you really read every email, do you also ignore the questions?
I also asked for just a few sentences of feedback. I expect this from the average company, but not from yours. You have strong values, but don't live up to them.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#444Outpost Travel - https://outpost.travel - Local Montreal, QC If you speak Backbone JS, Javascript, Python, MongoDB: we want you. If you love or hate travel, you're still going to crack some code with us regardless. Looking for programers with a giant beard or someone who knows when to share the right gif at the right time in team chat. We really don't care about your fancy degree or anything like that, as long as you…
I know the whole "beard" thing is a joke, but it is kind of irritating that you'd just assume that you're going to hire a guy.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#445Search scientist. Amsterdam. Relocation and Visa provided. And I mean real search scientist, not just someone who put together Solr that one time. We have a client who has a fantastic position which has opened up. They’re searching for you because you’ll be searching for them: they need an expert search engine/data mining specialist and very few people can fill this role. You’ll have several years of experience with…
fucking recruiters have arrived here...bottom-feeders
Hey, thanks for being so friendly! :) And recruiters have been here for a while.
Seriously, though, check my post history. I'm more than just a recruiter — I'm a serious dev and I'm willing to bet I've released more open source code than most people on HN and I can almost guarantee it's more widely used. The reality is that many companies know neither how to source candidates nor how to evaluate them. Being well-known in some tech communities (https://www.google.fr/search?q=curtis+poe+perl) means I can evaluate those candidates and I can also source them.
Yes, recruiters have a poor reputation and there's a reason that many (most?) deserve that, but for companies who can't source candidates, they're stuck. Recruiters, particularly those who specialize, tend to have large pools of "goto" people that companies would never have, meaning that companies who can't find talent have little choice.
The reason recruiters are despised so much is that there's such a low barrier to entry to our field that this depresses quality tremendously. I don't like it either, but we're not all the same. Frankly, I wish there was some way to enforce standards for recruiters and find a way for both employees and employers to "out" bad recruiters.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#446onefinestay | London, UK - Full Time
# who are we?
There’s a new way to stay in a city. onefinestay is a trusted service for hosts to flexibly share their homes while they’re out of town. We give guests the best bits of a boutique hotel stay inside some of the most distinctive homes around.
# why does onefinestay need developers?
As well as continuously improving www.onefinestay.com we’re building a whole bevy of tools to support the very real, very logistical business that depends on technology, from mobile tools to scheduling systems. Here’s a snapshot of some of the things we're currently working on, will be working on soon, or maybe just finished.
- Updating the entire online pre-stay experience for guests (we call it, online check-in)
- Launched a brand new online magazine with custom cms called The Edition
- Developed an authentication and staff management system to handle our ever-growing team
- Completely revamping the entire site to support mobile devices (40% of our traffic comes from iOS)
# who do we want?
We're looking for someone who can question the status quo, bring new ideas to the table, see the full potential of a new feature (and push it to realisation), or if necessary tone down something that is getting out of hand. Everyone on the team is a fullstack developer, to some degree. But our django heavy application is moving more and more to the client in order to keep our interfaces as usable as possible. We'd like you to have some experience with server-side code in a production environment, but if yours isn’t in python or django, don't worry, there’ll be plenty of time to learn. With that in mind, we’re looking for:
- High-level ability in HTML/CSS (SASS)
- MVC style application development with javascript (backbone, underscore, react)
- Some experience with server side frameworks (django, RoR, express)
- Ability to work with our product team to develop high quality user experience
- Strong knowledge of web standards and cross-browser compatibility There's a bunch of other stuff that will go a long way to get us excited:
- Experience with source control (git, mercurial)
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Comfortable working with pre-processors such as browserify, React's jsx format
- Experience with CI and automated testing (jenkins, jasmine)
# what we can offer you?
- Competitive salaries
- Stock options
- A social work environment filled to the brim with talented developers
- Your choice of dev environment (on the penthouse floor of our sweet new offices)
- Time to expand and grow your skills
Interested? You should apply here: http://www.onefinestay.com/jobs/position/?jvi=oM05Wfwx,Job
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#447We're Hiring at Prismatic (getprismatic.com)
The office is located in SOMA in San Francisco.
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Frontend Engineer at Prismatic: iOS, Web, and Android. http://boards.greenhouse.io/prismatic/jobs/5971
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Strong CS basics in data structures and algorithms. Strong engineering; thoughtful design and clean code. Graphics, browser, games, or animation experience a big plus. A front-end engineer that has a strong computer science background, but wants to focus on product engineering rather than backend systems. You don’t want to just take off the shelf UI components, but want to explore new interactions. You aren’t afraid to dig under the hood of iOS frameworks or browser code in order to make an animation or interaction feel natural and smooth.
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Backend Engineer at Prismatic: http://boards.greenhouse.io/prismatic/jobs/5976
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Prismatic is a great place to be a backend engineer - we analyze millions of shared web pages every day, automatically classify them into tens of thousands of topics, and serve up personalized feeds in real-time using our homegrown, lightning fast, machine learning-based relevance engine. We are looking to grow our top-notch team, with both junior and senior-level positions available. We are looking for engineers with deep interest and knowledge in at least one area core to our business (i.e., distributed systems, ops and tooling, machine learning, designing and building new product features). We’re a small team, so you will have the opportunity to have a lot of impact, and to learn from peers who are extremely talented engineers, computer scientists, and data experts. Our backend is written entirely in Clojure, a JVM-based LISP that is a dream to work in. Almost none of us knew it before we joined, and we don’t expect you to either. We do, however, expect the following: - You live and die by good abstractions. You know that they can make the difference between easily understandable and maintainable code, and a spaghetti mess. - You think about edge cases and performance implications, and anticipate future needs. - You read and understand existing code before diving in and adding your own. You re-use existing code whenever possible, cleaning it up as needed to be more generally useful. - You know when to do it fast, when to do it right, and how to find the best compromise between the two. - You recognize that we are all stewards of the codebase, not owners. You leave code better than you found it, and you fix bugs without grumbling about whose they are. - You are a team player who enjoys discussing ideas and implementations with other engineers. Here’s a small sampling of the things you will be working on as a member of the Prismatic backend team: - Making our crawlers and document analysis better and more comprehensive - Building out new product features in our API - Solving tough systems problems to help us scale reliably and robustly - Building and improving Machine Learning systems for ranking, document analysis, and more - Creating tools to assist development and ops - Shipping some of the best open-source Clojure libraries out there, and working with the community to make them better
We are also looking for designers, visual and/or interaction.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#448Contentful Berlin, Germany
https://www.contentful.com/jobs/
* Ruby DevOps with erlang knowledge to work on our infrastructure
* lucene / elasticsearch expert
* Android Developer to develop Android SDK (will be opensourced, like our iOS SDK)
* Ruby/JavaScript developer
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#449Hey everyone, hope your April is off to a killer start! Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 21 person team spread across 14 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $350,000 in March, and we have $580,000 in the bank…
Can you talk more about how you grant equity? Do you have vesting schedule for new hires?
Also, how does the $10k salary cut for more equity work? do you grant extra equity for every year they take the cut e.g. 0.25% for every year they do it?
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
#450http://togethera.com - Android Developer and Full Stack Developer
We're building the simplest way for all generations in a family to share photos, videos and updates in absolute privacy. We have an early stage product that's getting amazing reviews; we're funded by excellent investors and are on a mission to bring the world's families closer together with technology that's delightful and easy to use.
We're now hiring for two roles: Android Developer and Full-Stack Developer (AngularJS & Python with Django). To apply please contact us at jobs@togethera.com. The roles are in London, but we can start working together remotely.
We currently have a Phonegap app that's getting fantastic reviews on Google Play. If you join us for the Android role, you'll get to build a native version from scratch, using all the lessons we've picked up in the last couple of months!
Perks include flexible working hours, equity, conference/learning budget and a (very) relaxed holiday policy. More importantly, you'll be joining us almost from the start and have real influence on how the product, culture and company grow.