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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

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Post by nostrademons »

arfrank wrote: post #86
nostrademons wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're someone whose username I'd recognize, you can send me a resume (my e-mail is in my HN profile) and I can refer you. That sends you to the top of the pile that HR looks at (technically, I think it's two separate queues, and they empty the referral queue before they look at the slushpile), though you still have to get through the interview process. I got in through a referral - I'm guessing it helps quite a b…

Besides a referral what got you in there? I can't imagine, from what I've read, that it is an easy task once they give you call back.

If you believe my recruiter, it was previous startup experience, strong CS fundamentals, and good JavaScript knowledge. In other words, I had a skill set that they needed and seemed like a person who could get things done. Pretty standard stuff.

The interview process was less difficult than I thought it would be. 1 phone screen, 4 (supposed to be 5, but one never showed up) in-person interviews over a day. I'd thought I'd flubbed it when I got out, but apparently the interview feedback was quite positive.

If I had to guess what makes most candidates bomb, it's that they don't have sufficient depth in the positions they're interviewing for. For example, at the end of one of my interview problems, the interviewer asked me "And how would you attach that event handler?" And I replied "Well, if it was IE, I'd use element.addEventListener('mouseover', fn, true). If it was a standards-compliant browser, I'd use element.attachEvent('mouseover', fn)." Note that that's wrong - it's backwards. But the interviewer didn't care. He just wanted to make sure that I was aware of those functions, because so many of the people he interviews would just say element.onmouseover = fn.

Similarly, most of the disastrous product-manager interviews I've heard of have been because the candidate would give handwavey answers and couldn't clarify what he meant or figure out how to support his opinions with data, even when prompted by the interviewer. Google culture really prizes precision, perfectionism, and strong opinions backed up with data - if you're used to finding the first Google hit on the web, implementing something by copying and modifying that, and then saying "Okay, it's done," you really won't fit in here.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

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Post by srw »

Nektra Advanced Computing (Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is hiring people with reverse engineering (think IDA) and windows system internals (C/C++/asm knowledge) skills for our line of products and services. If you are from Buenos Aires or want to relocate (even for some months) please send an email to: empleos at nektra.com look at our web page and blog for more information about the company: http://www.nektra.com & http://blog.nektra.com

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

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Post by sunir »

FreshBooks is hiring developers, support, designers, a customer network manager (think group facilitator for thousands of people at once), and business development / product managers.

Yes, that's a lot. We're growing fast. And we're in Toronto, which is awesome.

http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

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Post by icey »

3pt14159 wrote: post #108
icey wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may not know this, but it's worth asking: What are the Canadian immigration laws like regarding non-Canadian citizens coming to work there?

Depends where you are coming from. Basically, the way I understand it is like this: Platinum: From Great Britain, automatic acceptance, some sort of old law that is still on the books. Gold: From United States w/ BSc, BASc, BEng, BMath, CS, etc... If you have a white collar job offer it is basically a shoe in. Silver: A whole host of countries (New Zealand, AUS, Israel, Germany, China, Korea) w/ a family member or a…

Awesome, thank you for taking the time to provide so much detail.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

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Post by ismarc »

jbr wrote: post #77

http://www.presencetelecare.com/ is looking for a lead engineer (first technical employee). Details at http://presencetelecare.com/careers#1226ffb63eb89022_OLE_LIN... I'm not affiliated with them, but I know the founders are looking high and low for the right person.

I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere on the site, but where are they based out of? I have a friend whose sister is autistic and whose mother became a speech pathologist because she couldn't find any "good" ones in the area (and have done some technical work there in the past). However, I'm one of those unwilling to relocate right now types.
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