Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I wanna work at Instagram

iwannaworkatinstagram.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–200 of 215 posts

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#191

Post by zackattack »

alex_carlill wrote: post #43
blhack wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...why on earth would you do that? This person wants to work at instagram, if she gets the job, she'll be absolutely floored about coming in to work every day. This is exactly the type of employee I would think everybody would want. Why would you want something else?

because I'd quite like my designers to be capable of creativity, whereas this Instagram application is derivative in every single way.

you're trolling, but this is a good time to quote cory doctorow:

"everything is derivative."

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#193

Post by zackattack »

patio11 wrote: post #186
mrshoe wrote: post #111

To write an effective resume you need to keep the audience in mind. The hiring manager will base about 95% of the decision on the answer to one question: What have you built? Answers to questions such as "What are your skills?", "What is your philosophy?", and "What is your passion?" mostly just get in the way and waste the reader's time. A flashy appeal for a job like this one might get the attention of Instagram, b…

The hiring manager will base about 95% of the decision on the answer to one question: What have you built? I think this is approximately as true as "Customers make purchasing decisions approximately 95% based on product quality and 5% on those trivial details like marketing." By all means, build stuff. But after having achieved some level of building stuff, the returns are far greater in attractively marketing the st…

"...and you will have still better returns doing actual networking rather than hoping someone on the Internet will stumble across your hidden potential and give you a shot."

This is such a retarded market inefficiency. Someone here should do something about it.

Open programming contests for job seekers? Open Source awards for job seekers?

I don't know enough about how the hiring process works, de facto.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#194

Post by emehrkay »

leon_ wrote: post #182
emehrkay wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So her being a cute girl has nothing to do with her getting attention for this website (which I personally think is cool)?

Reminding people of the ugly truth leads to down votes ...

Yeah the down vote response was funny. It's as if cute girls in tech(replace with almost anything that is male dominated) aren't praised by males. Aside from her being an outlier, I think that the site is well designed and witty and makes a good case for her to be hired by instagram or anyone else.

Are websites with vanity urls the new cover letters?

www.f*&kCompanyAIloveCompanyZ.org

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#196

Post by Keyframe »

pclark wrote: post #195
Keyframe wrote: post #50

She made leica d vario-elmarit 14-50? I'll hire her then!

For a long time the instagram jobs page for the designer role asked for the candidate to attach a rendering of that lens.

Thanks for clarification - as I have never used instagram nor seen their job page. It's a good rendering (sans fonts), if nothing else.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#197

Post by yannickmahe »

Mystalic wrote: post #30

Anything that makes you stand above the crowd of job seekers and get noticed is (almost) always a smart move. Do you think Instagram is thinking "no, this girl is clearly an idiot?" No, they're clearly going to notice her and give her consideration that she wouldn't otherwise get. They're probably thinking "nice initiative" even if they've seen this type of application before. I think a few of you are being too cynic…

Someone once sent us a cover letter stating he was eager to work with "the experts at our famous company". This might help when trying out for Google, or any other actually famous company, but when you're asking for a job at an unknown company (we, of course, knew that we were nowhere near famous - yet), it makes you sound ignorant.

Re: I wanna work at Instagram

#198

Post by wizard_2 »

crasshopper wrote: post #110
reason wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because as many here would probably not like to accept, HNers are just as prone to social engineering as the guy on Facebook who signs up for the app that can supposedly revert his Facebook page back to the old design. HN can be gamed quite easily, for this and other reasons. Since you're near the top of this thread, which itself is sitting at the top of the HN front page, why not link to your site here? I wouldn't m…

Eh ... that would be spammy. And I gave up trying to work in quant finance. Instead I'm returning to what I know: entrepreneurship.

I've been interviewing technology interns at a finance company and every single one has said "I'm very quantitative and want to learn more about high frequency trading." I haven't been able to figure out what they mean by that. I think they just heard that's where the money is.
Post reply on HN