Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by alg2000 » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:08 PM UTC

Bishop Fox (https://www.bishopfox.com) | Phoenix, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York City | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full-time |

Bishop Fox is a leading IT security consulting firm serving the Fortune 1000 and high-tech startups. We protect our clients by finding vulnerabilities and building defenses before the attackers can break bad. From critical infrastructure to credit cards; social media to mobile games; flight navigation systems to frozen waffle factories — we’re right there, advising every bit of the way.

We’re looking for talented hackers and security associates to help us secure some of the world’s most complex software and sophisticated technologies.

Interested? We have several openings in both our Assessment and Penetration Testing and Enterprise Security practices.

Penetration Intern - http://grnh.se/v26gcr

Pentester - http://grnh.se/rdhk28

Senior Pentester - http://grnh.se/i6p5cv

Security Compliance Associate - http://grnh.se/retuo6

Security Compliance Analyst - http://grnh.se/dufp6r

If you have any questions, please feel free to email careers@bishopfox.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by spitfire » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

35bge57dtjku wrote: post #646

spitfire wrote: post #274

I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields. - General mental ability (Are they generally smart) Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use th…

"That might work great for other companies, but..."

Indeed. The people that most need this advice simply won't take it.

The three most dangerous sentences in the world

  "That might work great for other companies, but..."

  "That's how we've always done it."

  "Unfortunately it's not that simple."

Also this storify from patio11 is /very/ relevant.

https://storify.com/dgempesaw/sales-vs-hiring-via-patio11

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by mikebabineau » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

Second Measure | SF Bay Area (San Mateo, CA) | ONSITE (relo ok) | https://secondmeasure.com

Second Measure analyzes credit card data. We process billions of purchases to help investors (VCs and hedge funds) answer questions like:

  - How quickly is Wayfair growing?
  - Is Lyft gaining or losing market share in Boston?
  - How does Hilton spending change after a customer's first Airbnb stay?
  - (Check out our research blog [1])

We were part of YC S15 and launched last August [2].

We’re a 10-person team solving hard problems with cool data. We’re looking for other strong builders, especially those who can grow into leadership roles:

  - Data Scientist (stats + ML; AWS, NLP, and Spark helpful)
  - Research Scientist (stats; SQL and Python helpful; math/science PhD preferred)
  - Research Analyst (stats+SQL+Excel+writing; investment experience helpful)
  - Senior Software Engineer (data/frontend/backend/full-stack; Python/JVM/Go; D3; AWS; React/Angular)

Competitive salary and substantial equity. We want our early team to have a large stake in our success.

We have phenomenal traction and raised a strong seed round [3]. Select investors include: Bessemer, Foundation, Norwest, Shasta, and Y Combinator.

We’re in downtown San Mateo, just minutes from Caltrain and 101.

Email jobs@ and CC me, I'm a founder (mike@).

[1] http://blog.secondmeasure.com/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/second-measure-launches-off...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/second-measure-is-secret-weap...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by sAbakumoff » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

sid6376 wrote: post #9

Booking.com - " rel="nofollow">https://booking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend d…

Today I had the interview for a front end developer, everything was organized perfectly. I can say that it was the best interview I had been ever invited to. I even had one extra interview, very business oriented, guess that it's a good sign )

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by leidner » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

We are hiring misc. ONSITE (partial remote) scientists, developers, research directors wanted in multiple locations (Toronto, London, Eagan/MN).

Skills/interest: NLP/computational linguistics, IR, applied machine learning/statistics, knowledge representation/reasoning.

Corporate Research & Development and Center for Cognitive Computing http://thomsonreuters.com/en/careers/our-jobs/technology/res...

Careers http://thomsonreuters.com/en/careers.html

If you would like to work with the most diverse data sets on the planet (REUTERS News, images, videos, patents, legal cases, tax rules, energy price time series, stock price data, usage logs, ...), talk to us.

Also check out http://reuters.tv and our associated iPhone and Android apps for personalized video news. Reuters news is consumed by over 2 billion people every day.

If you have questions, email me at jochen.leidner at thomsonreuters.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by leidner » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

We are hiring misc. ONSITE (partial remote) scientists, developers, research directors wanted in multiple locations (Toronto, London, Eagan/MN).

Skills/interest: NLP/computational linguistics, IR, applied machine learning/statistics, knowledge representation/reasoning.

Corporate Research & Development and Center for Cognitive Computing http://thomsonreuters.com/en/careers/our-jobs/technology/res...

Careers http://thomsonreuters.com/en/careers.html

If you would like to work with the most diverse data sets on the planet (REUTERS News, images, videos, patents, legal cases, tax rules, energy price time series, stock price data, usage logs, ...), talk to us.

Also check out http://reuters.tv and our associated iPhone and Android apps for personalized video news. Reuters news is consumed by over 2 billion people every day.

If you have questions, email me at jochen.leidner at thomsonreuters.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by smb06 » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:26 PM UTC

Netsil - Series A startup, San Francisco, ONSITE, VISA

Sales Engineer, Full Time, 25% travel

Netsil is looking for sales engineer for our cutting edge product in microservices observability space. This is an enterprise product targeted at SREs and DevOps engineers who run production applications built using modern technologies (Microservices, Containers, etc.) You will work directly with customers and play an expert role in how our product gets deployed, managed and used to monitor their production applications.

Responsibilities: Work with customers and do effective demos/presentations and answer questions from a very technical audience of SREs and DevOps engineers

Manage multiple parallel customer trials and relationships Troubleshoot issues with product installations in customer environments

Collaborate effectively with the product team and communicate feedback from the field

Requirements:

5+ years of experience in enterprise software solutions

Knowledge of open source technologies (especially Docker, Mesosphere DC/OS) and cloud services (especially AWS)

Knowledge of data pipelines (Kafka, Spark) and Big Data is a plus

Passion for working in a fast-paced startup, and the desire to help make it huge.

Email: careers@netsil.com with your resume and we will set up a phone conversation. Second step would be an in-person interview at our San Francisco office.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by conorgil145 » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC

conorgil145 wrote: post #723

Virtru | Washington, DC or REMOTE (within America) | Fulltime | DevOps, Javascript fullstack == Who we are == https://virtru.com/how-it-works Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient. Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and existing email provid…

We are also hiring for a Senior/Lead QA Analyst. Specific responsibilities include:

* Write/update test plans and test cases

* Defect Management including providing feedback on defect prioritization

* Triaging defects that come in through our contractors and oversee their work

* Perform manual tests across all of our platforms, including cross platforms

* Help with managing releases and giving approval for releases

* Develops test strategies, test approaches for performance and automation events

* Suggest and implement process improvements that will accomplish team, department and business goals.

* Striving for efficiency, consistency and effectiveness

Please apply via our posting on Indeed: http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?t=seniorlead+qa+analyst&jk=974...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by conorgil145 » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:30 PM UTC

conorgil145 wrote: post #723

Virtru | Washington, DC or REMOTE (within America) | Fulltime | DevOps, Javascript fullstack == Who we are == https://virtru.com/how-it-works Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient. Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and existing email provid…

We are also hiring for a Senior UX Designer.

We might be a good match if…

* You’re a generalist with a sweet spot, or a specialist looking to broaden your skills.

* You value craftsmanship.

* You’ve shipped product.

* You think beyond the ‘how’ and help to define the ‘what.’

* You can think and talk about the bottom line.

* You thrive in user validation.

* You are a cross-platform zen master.

Please see the full description and application on our website: https://www.virtru.com/careers/.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by smb06 » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 6:31 PM UTC

Netsil - Series A startup, San Francisco, ONSITE, VISA Product Marketing Leader, Full Time, 25% travel

As the first product marketing person at Netsil, you will be our primary storyteller responsible for communicating our vision, value proposition and differentiation inside and outside the company.

Responsibilities: Develop product positioning that reinforces our core vision and differentiation

Own our sales presentations, product messaging on the website, and other collateral

Communicate the value proposition to the sales team and develop sales tools that  support sales execution

Communicate customer requirements and provide input to product management on  product enhancements and future directions

Demonstrate thought leadership in the industry by producing stellar content, including  blog articles

Speak at conferences and webcasts

Requirements:

5+ years of experience doing product marketing / product management in enterprise software companies, building category defining products

Ability to directly and indirectly communicate with a very technical audience (SREs and  DevOps engineers)

Experience in a presales or postsales role is a plus

Email: careers@netsil.com with your resume and we will set up a phone conversation. Second step would be an in-person interview at our San Francisco office.