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

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Post by tt_throwaway »

DrQuack wrote: post #765
cookiecaper wrote: post #760

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal understanding is that Thumbtack only wants candidates with Ivy League educations, and that they're dismissive of everyone else. I have heard they have difficulty filling their positions due to this. Is that accurate?

I can confirm. They have a very smug and elitist attitude. They also engage in some pretty shady business practices (just google them).

I'm sorry you perceived some members of our team as smug and/or elitist. While I don't feel like they're smug or elitist towards other engineers here, I don't know how they behave outside of work.

I googled for "thumbtack shady business practices." The top results were professionals complaining about 1)inability to buy a single lead at a time, and 2)bogus leads. The first is specifically a measure to filter for more dedicated businesses; regarding the second, there are multiple engineers and manual reviewers filtering out bogus leads and from what I can tell they do a solid job.

Since you're likely coming from a technical pov, you may also consider the fact that our company gets a considerable fraction of traffic from SEO to be shady. I agree that gaming SEO by itself is a silly thing to do. Fortunately for me, optimizing for SEO is somewhat correlated to optimizing for quality content. Additionally, at our company's current growth stage SEO is becoming somewhat less important than building a solid product; this likewise makes me optimistic.

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

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Post by vlad »

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

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Post by cookiecaper »

tt_throwaway wrote: post #790
cookiecaper wrote: post #760

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal understanding is that Thumbtack only wants candidates with Ivy League educations, and that they're dismissive of everyone else. I have heard they have difficulty filling their positions due to this. Is that accurate?

Thumbtack engineer here, writing anonymously. Re: "Ivy League educations" -- I believe we have zero engineers from Ivy League proper undergrad, and a couple with grad degrees there. If you include MIT/Stanford/CMU/Caltech/Berkeley we go up to 15/50, but the majority of eng is not from elite colleges. We might have a bias for hiring from Google, I'm not sure how much of that bias is just that Google engineers tend to…

Hey, I appreciate the reply. What I heard through the grapevine is that Thumbtack primarily wants Stanford grads. A very experienced friend had his resume dismissed out of hand because they didn't like his educational pedigree -- didn't even consider an interview. Meanwhile, the Thumbtack employee that had forwarded my friend for consideration told of constant pleas for referrals of "qualified programmers", and promises of exorbitant bonuses for people who could furnish them.

After watching this happen, it was no wonder that Thumbtack was unable to fill their positions. There's a point where such baseless and flippant dismissal of good talent stops representing selectivity and begins instead to represent incompetence.

The prior head of recruiting, who was employed by Facebook and Google before she was employed by Thumbtack, has been replaced since that incident, so perhaps things are better now.

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

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Post by amiorin »

Nugg.ad GmbH (Zalando company) | Berlin | Full time ON-SITE

- Go (golang) and Spark developers

About us

- We use Scala for Spark and Go for our Api

- We use both AWS and on-premises infrastructure

- We work in the Zalando tech hub of Berlin https://tech.zalando.com/locations/#berlin

- "You build it, you run it" devops culture

- 100.000 req/sec

- 100 TB of data

- - Docker, mesos, marathon, grpc, ecs, elb, consul, aurora, redis, kafka, terraform, ansible, elasticsearch...

- Event-sourcing and CQRS

- We are building a DMP. It's a greenfield project.

- No legacy code maintenance

jobs@nugg.ad

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

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Post by sriprasanna »

JohnnyLee wrote: post #253

Readmore - http://www.readmo.re - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ONSITE I'm a developer at Readmore in Amsterdam and we're currently looking for an on-site developer. We're a small company, so the responsibilities are varied, but initially you would be focused on our customer-facing website. We're currently growing and refreshing our systems, so there would be a good deal of both responsibility and freedom in the posit…

Do you sponsor visa and relocation? I guess your stack is Ruby/RoR based, please correct me if I am wrong.

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

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Post by NewsNow »

Software Developer/Web Developer/Product Manager | NewsNow.co.uk | London, UK | Full-time, permanent

Passionate about any area of news, sport, or fairness in news reporting? Relish crafting elegant solutions to hard technical and business problems, using whatever is the best tool for the job? Thrive in an open, collaborative environment, where the best ideas can come from anyone? Confident and articulate about what you know, and humble and articulate about what you don't? Fancy the idea of competing with Google, by being clever rather than colossal?

Then why not consider joining NewsNow.co.uk, the UK's largest independent news aggregator. Established 1998 and profitable ever since, our ethos and business models have stood the test of time. Ours is a developer-led company: our Founder and CEO heads up our development team.

We currently have three opportunities: - As a /software developer/, you’d be working on projects including our unique in-house article classification engine, generating live digests of our most compelling content, or mining live streams of data about events from all over the world. - As a /web developer/, you’d work on projects like letting users view images from the news, and rate articles. - As a /product manager/, you’d help us to ‘get it right’ through your zest for software development and the user experience, your passion and excitement for our business and your ability to inspire this in the rest of the team.

We run Debian Linux on our co-located raw metal and on AWS EC2/VPC, with MySQL, Apache, and in-house code written in a variety of languages. We do our web development in HTML5, CSS3, advanced JavaScript, jQuery. We use OO patterns in coding.

We’re also welcoming applications from remote developers if you live within about an hour of London.

If you like the sound of us, we’d love to hear about you. Please get in touch!

http://www.NewsNow.co.uk/careers/

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

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Post by jsherer »

Application Reliability Engineer | Zapier (YC S12) | Fully-Remote Team (Work Anywhere) | Full-time

We're looking for someone to join our fully-remote Engineering and DevOps team at Zapier to help scale and automate the billions of tasks.

Here are some things you'll get a taste of:

* Be an important member of our Engineering and DevOps team, working to scale our fast growing and unique system

* Write application code to support new features

* Build tooling to increase visibility into our running production systems, measure performance continuously, and act upon changes

* Automate disaster recovery efforts, including introducing random "chaos" into the system to test and improve overall resiliency to failures

* Tune the engine that supports hundreds of thousands of users every day

Sound like a good fit? Give this a look over and get in touch! We'd love to hear from you:

https://zapier.com/jobs/application-reliability-engineer-spr...

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

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Post by clarkraizlabs11 »

Android Engineer @ Raizlabs | Oakland, CA |Full Time in Office We are looking for a few solid Android Engineers. Native development. Have a passion for mobile. Mobile First mentality.

Do more than code. Raizlabs is seeking an Android mobile developer to engineer beautiful apps and influence product direction for startups and big brands like Bloomingdale’s, Localytics, RunKeeper, Rue La La, Care.com, and HubSpot.

Great place to work!! -100% fully paid benefits -401k match -Hack Days

Curious about some of our code? Check out some of our work on GitHub and let us know what you think: raizlabs.github.io

Reach out to me directly for more info Greg.clark@raizlabs.com Please- no agencies

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

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Post by jmaggs »

dluan wrote: post #615

Experiment | NYC | full stack engineers We're a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. Our goal is to be how you do science on the internet. We're a small team that's fiercely mission-driven and very user focused. For example, our team frequently goes on dinosaur digs, tree-climbing survey expeditions, and early morning bird-banding trips with our users, because our users are scientists. Our stack is a mix of…

Heh, that's one of our journals. See below...

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

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Post by Wargog »

grayfox wrote: post #47

Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA) If you're looking to join a forward-thinking industry with a stable outlook (databases-as-a-service), we have a tremendous challenge for you and a terrific team willing and able to support you through it. The Compose family has grown into a vibrant group where folks can feel comfortable being themselves, living a balanced life. We welcome you to enjoy comfort when taking risks, col…

I applied, can't wait to finish my coding test done to see if I get to work with you guys for a day!
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