Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

Isnt the simplest explanation probably correct in this scenario?

Clever (YC S12) - San Francisco - onsite

Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after three and a half years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (20M kids), and 60,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily integrate, manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 115 (40 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Go, Node and React. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone. In particular, we’re looking for senior engineers and engineering managers: empathetic leaders who are excited about teaching, coaching and professional development.

Check us out at https://clever.com/about/jobs, or check out our newest product release here: https://clever.com/products/badges

I'm not sure arrogance factors in. If you compare interviews now with just five years ago it's like night and day. It used to be a short phone interview then an onsite. That's it. It was relatively quick and easy on both sides. It was also unreliable.

The flood of unqualified candidates into the job pool has made the task of sifting through resumes and talking to potential candidates far more time consuming. The time requirement alone has made the old way of interviewing untenable.

The hoops are a way for companies to limit their time investment and reduce perceived risk. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. It alienates the very candidates they want to attract while doing nothing to deter the unqualified and it isn't any more reliable at telling us who's qualified than the old method was.

Every one of those I've done actually take much more than what is advertised.

Olympic Channel / Madrid, Spain / Full-time / On Site

The newly launched Olympic Channel (https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/) is seeking business and data analysts to join the Digital Strategy group. We're a small team and wear many hats. While we're actively seeking junior positions (1-3 years of experience), we encourage qualified mid- and senior-level candidates to apply as well. We have a strong preference for local candidates but can help with Visa sponsorship for the right person if needed.

We are looking for:

1. Data Analysts and Engineers: Python, R, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ELK, and Spark, but we're not married to any particular stack. We want you to work in whatever way is most effective. Must be comfortable working with messy, disaggregated data sets and have a strong grasp of ETL and data preparation. Bonus points for D3 and an interest in turning data into something beautiful and engaging.

2. Business Analysts and Strategists: Excel, PowerPoint, Word (and cloud equivalents). Some experience with analytics tools and basic scripting is helpful but not required. This person will help shape the strategy and direction of current and future projects in a way that moves the needle.

Looking ahead to the coming weeks and months, we're also interested in a DBA/Architect, a systems engineer (with some exposure to distributed systems -- technologies we use include Hadoop, HDFS, Avro, Spark, Kafka, and Flume), a project manager, data engineers, scientists, and developers.

If any of the above sounds interesting, please drop a resume, github profile, sample work, or anything else you think might be interesting to datajobs [at] olympicchannel.com.