Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507753
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 380 ms ] threadWe are developing a consumer-oriented 3D printer, along with an extensive suite of innovative software around it, ranging from decentralized web of things to collective 3D modeling.
The company is based in Singapore with an international staff and market. We arrange flight and visa application for you.
The fields particularly lacking man power include :
Email your application at contact@kaielvin.org. Include what are the top 3 of your favourite innovative technologies, the most algorithmically challenging program you have worked on, along with your GitHub, StackOverflow or similar accounts. We will pursue the conversation from there.We're a team of engineers, musicians, tri-athletes, designers, activists, filmmakers, and writers, united by a shared passion to empower people across the world to turn their dreams into reality.
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Over the last few years, we’ve turned our vision of building the world’s funding platform from the dream a scrappy team of 5 into the reality of a 90-person team and $40 million plus in VC backing. Mo’ money, mo’ problems, eh? Our newfound scale has set us up to succeed as the open crowdfunding platform for the whole world—and scale brings a whole new set of engineering challenges that might interest you.
Do any of these challenges grab your attention? Let us know! * Dev/Ops Engineer (http://www.indiegogo.com/about/careers?jvi=oGtsYfwj,Job): help us build out the infrastructure that’s serving millions of dollars in funds raised each month * Software Engineer, Web (http://www.indiegogo.com/about/careers?jvi=oB0oYfwH,Job): we’re a Rails shop at heart; let’s scale that codebase to support the world * iOS Engineer (http://www.indiegogo.com/about/careers?jvi=oLSGYfw1,Job): help us build our first-gen mobile app!
Our engineering approach: * Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, iOS 7 SDK, Backbone.js, AngularJS, LESS, Elasticsearch, Amazon Redshift, Chef * We’re an agile shop (somewhere between XP and scrum), and our project teams decide their own working standards * We already have one of the most diverse engineering teams in San Francisco, and we’re working to change the tech community as a whole (see http://igg.me/at/LesbiansWhoTech/ and http://igg.me/at/BGCTheRemix/) * We’re language agnostic when we hire—we're open to talking to engineers with strength in Python, PHP, Java, Perl, etc., as long as you enjoy working with RoR and are willing to learn!
Our next year is all about execution—there’s never been a better time to join the team.
Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)
Hardware -> think cell phone on crack (atmel avr xmega, a bunch of sensors, gps, gsm, etc). Working integrated chip in the sub-$5 price point now! Have some pilots running with v1 hw.
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors!Looking for help on mobile, frontend, and data science sides!
I should also probably mention that we have a team with a bunch of industry vets!
If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at marc@weft.io!
XP-Dev.com does version control and project hosting (in the same market as Github, Bitbucket, etc). Profitable and bootstrapped.
Looking for backend and frontend engineers who would like to get their hands dirty in Subversion, Git and Mercurial. You will be working on new features on the platform that may involve work on the whole stack. You will be liaising directly with real users. Deployments are really quick, and you get to see the impact of your work almost immediately.
Stack:
There are other products in the pipeline - most of which are akin to xp-dev.com (hosting/productivity platforms). So, there is plenty of room to switch products and try out new things: https://deployer.vc, https://zoned.io amongst them.What we're looking for:
Benefits: Position location is remote. You'll need to factor in working from home or from a shared space near you (all will be paid for).To apply, just drop a short cover email describing yourself and your CV to rs@exentriquesolutions.com
A future employee's first experience at your company is his job application. When someone has taken the time to apply to your company, here are some things that would be nice if done:
* When you post that you are hiring, either here or elsewhere, please make sure to reply as fast as possible. Delaying action on job applications doesn't help both you and the candidate.
* Even if you are not interested in the candidate, sending a reply, however simple, helps in more ways than you can imagine.
(Sorry to hijack this thread)
FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.
We're looking for:
* Web software developer
* Mapping software developer
* Front-end (UI/UX) developer
* Systems Engineer
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Plated is a NYC startup that is redefining the way we eat by reconnecting people to their food. As our young company is entering a growth stage, we need to expand our developer team – that’s where you come in!
Why us? This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned engineer to scale a product and work with a company early on that will be a household name in 1-2 years.
Beyond brute intelligence and problem solving skills, we are looking for hunger, passion, and a general craving to help build a successful company.
More Info:
http://www.plated.com
http://www.plated.com/press
http://plated.theresumator.com/apply/kWwrXI/MidSenior-Level-...
We’re a bootstrapped startup in the mid-six-figures in revenue and profitable from day one. We expect to more than double in revenue this year.
Over 7,000 small and medium businesses, 7,000 financial advisors, one US state and a top-ten US retailer use our software to help their customers. We power Olark’s cobrowsing.
Our cobrowsing software allows you to remotely connect up to a friend's browser see what they're doing, and collaborate in real time. It runs with pure javascript - no downloads, no installations, and no java applets. It’s not easy.
We typically sell in to big organizations in customer support, healthcare, insurance, and financial services. We’re looking for a head of enterprise sales as to help us scale. Previous experience is highly preferred. Compensation is a mix of base salary and commission. Email me (CEO) at dan[]usefirefly.com.
SFX / Arc90
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JavaScript Developer
We need JavaScript developers for a few different projects including:
* A React.js application using immutable data structures to manage large collections of records
* A responsive web application centered around streaming music and live events
* A high-traffic ecommerce site for professional DJs to preview and purchase music
We’re looking for experienced JS developers who also like playing with JS-target languages such as CoffeeScript, ClojureScript, etc. or are otherwise excited about learning new languages / techniques. If any of this sounds interesting to you, drop a line to: darren.newton@arc90.com
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Clojure Developer
We're hiring Clojure developers, or developers strongly interested in Clojure, to work on backend services for an electronic music platform.
If you're interested, please drop me a line: brianb@arc90.com
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We're hiring for other positions as well. For the full list and more info, check out: https://sfx.recruiterbox.com/
Chalkfly.com is looking for an amazing, experienced, OO PHP developer with deep Magento experience to join our fast-growing, first-rate development team. As a software developer, you would responsible for end-to-end product development, from architecture, to development, to rollout. You must be comfortable participating in design and code reviews, as well as delivering accurate estimates, providing regular development progress feedback and consistently meeting project deadlines. Our developers are effective at explaining complex ideas and concepts to non-technical team members.
This is a full time position that would work out of our downtown Detroit office. Occasional telecommuting (like one day a week) is on the table, but we really need people who can be in the office most of the time.
Here's our stats:
A word about Detroit: The city gets a lot of bad press. It might not look like an attractive option to people who are considering offers from NY or CA, but I would really encourage people to at least take a look. We're in a building with about 20 other tech start-ups who have all received funding. There is serious investment happening in the city right now. Two months ago I looked up and Warren Buffet (completely unannounced) was 10 feet away from my desk (he's partnering on several projects in the city). We sit right across from the Detroit Twitter office. We're on the same block as the Detroit Google office. Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers play, is 100 yards from our office. Ford Field, where the Lions play, is another about 300 yards away. The part of the city we're in is clean and safe with newly built downtown living alternatives. All I'm saying is: give it a look.If you're interested in finding out more, shoot me an email at evan@chalkfly.com.
When I've looked at opportunities at Google or Twitter in Detroit/Birmingham, it's really all sales and account management jobs targeted at folks servicing the auto makers.
Don't get me wrong, I like parts of Detroit but I still don't feel safe when driving around the "wrong" parts of town. It's getting better but by no means is it there.
I am from the NYC area but I visit my wife's family in Detroit about two times a year and always have a blast.
We have several open engineering positions, each with a different focus: Javascript client (React + Scala + Postgres), Database Administrator (Postgres/Solr), and a dev ops engineer. Email gsieling@wingspan.com if interested in any of these.
http://www.wingspan.com/career_open_positions/
We have a diverse mix already, including a few startup veterans, conferences and meetup presenters, and even some game developers. We used AJAX before it was called AJAX. The engineering “managers” aren’t really managers – they’re the ones who architected the products and lead their maintenance. Engineers in charge means no red tape or other silly productivity barriers like at larger companies.
While all of our engineers contribute across the stack, many draw assignments with a particular focus. As a Software Engineer (Client Focused), you would be a principal contributor in developing our next-generation eTMF product. The eTMF client is a classic web 2.0 “single page” application utilizing the current best of breed JavaScript libraries.
Wingspan values fundamentals and ability to learn over current knowledge, but candidates with knowledge and experience relevant to our current technology stack have an obvious advantage over those without.
Coolhouse Labs is a digitally-focused startup accelerator based in Harbor Springs MI, a small resort community on the shores of Lake Michigan. Each summer we invite 5-10 tech startups to be a part of our mentorship-driven accelerator program. Our goal is to help early stage digitally focused entrepreneurs build awesome products that their customers are passionate about.
This summer, we’re bringing a team of developers and designers on board to work with the each of the startups in our program and provide them with the resources they need. We're looking for 3 developers and 3 designers (senior, mid-level, internship) to work with us in-house for 3 months over the summer.
Developers will be primarily responsible for working with the startups coming in to Coolhouse Labs summer program to help them with early stage product development.
Designers will be working with the startups in the summer program to help them with web design (marketing sites as well as app design), branding, marketing identity, mobile and web based product UI/UX design, and other various graphics for the program and startups.
Perks
Please send appropriate portfolio, code samples, etc., and a short introduction of yourself to blake@blakeowens.com.Looking forward to chatting!
thisCLICKS is a B2B startup that has reinvented the employee punch clock and shift schedule with our two mobile products: When I Work and WageBase.
Our addressable market is huge. Sixty percent of all workers work hourly jobs, including over 75 million Americans. And we already have international customers.
Our nearly 4,000 customers today have over 200,000 employees. We're expecting to triple our customer base this year. We have already exceeded $1 million in annual revenue and we didn't hire any sales staff to get there. We're growing signups at over ten percent per month.
After raising $4 million in our series A fundraising round, we have five, immediate on-site openings:
If this sounds like you, sign up at http://careers.thisclicks.com/We are looking for DevOps freelancers and contractors who can be available on site at our London based clients.
We have opening in the Linux, Puppet/Chef, Ansible, Python, Postgres, VMWare spaces at the moment.
Please get in touch on benjamin.wootton@contino.co.uk for more information.
Join the army, see the world! OR Join Mukuru, be part of an elite development team and live in Cape Town for a couple of years soaking up the sun and practising your Afrikaans.
Indeed. Mukuru.com, the money transfer hub, are looking for an advanced PHP developer with solid MVC experience in either Kohana (bonus), CodeIgniter, CakePHP or Zend. Must be at ease with LAMP environment, MySQL and jQuery (bonus). Any server admin experience (particularly AWS) is a bonus too.
Be part of a great team working on cutting edge financial services for the unbanked on mobile, web and wallet. Mukuru is a busy platform and you'll see your code set to use instantly among hundreds of thousands of users. It's a buzz!
Product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgPQkHfp0Y
We are looking for highly motivated individuals who share our belief in mCASH's potential to revolutionize payments, and that have the guts to see that vision through.
mCASH is a startup that integrates with banks, merchants, webshops and apps to allow purchases and person-to-person transfers. Following a successful launch in the Norwegian market last month and a fresh $7.2mm USD in venture capital [1] from Northzone [2] and Entreé Capital [3], we are looking to scale up our team and expand internationally.
There are many small and big projects in our pipeline, and we always strive to improve on what we already have. As a member of our small team you'll have a big impact on the trajectory of mCASH and shaping the company and product as we continue to grow. We're an international team, with seven nationalities represented at the office.
As an mCASH employee, you are passionate about your own field of expertise, yet have the capacity to contribute to all parts of mCASH and are invigorated by the challenges we face.
The cornerstone of mCASH — our payment infrastructure — is built on Python, and we have launched native apps for iOS and Android. We are in the fortunate position that we get to write bleeding edge payment- and data analysis applications from the ground up — we'd like you to join in and help us!
- A college degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics or a similar field- Ability to write elegant, well-documented and unit-tested code
- Solid knowledge of least three different programming languages
- Knowledge of Python in particular, or a similar language
- You like to KISS :-*
- A gutsy, proactive and I-can-do-this attitude that fits well with our start-up mentality
- A thorough understanding of the technology stack used in modern web applications, from front-end to back-end
- Statistics and machine learning experience is a plus
- Strong algorithms and data structures background is a plus
- You understand that knowledge sharing is fundamental in a fast-growing business
- Open Source contributions are a big plus - show us something you're proud of!
- You are based in (or willing to relocate to) Oslo
Faced with problems to solve, you are quick in evaluating the solution set, are critical to your underlying assumptions, communicate efficiently with your colleagues, and apply appropriate technologies at a high pace.
Competitive salary and equity, pension plan, 5 weeks of paid vacation, free health care, computer of your choice, standing desks, high-end mobile phone and gadgets, free snacks and beverages, etc. Furthermore, at such a fast moving company you’ll find opportunities rather than boundaries in every single role. Your role may involve, but is not limited to:- Fraud detection and prevention
- Determining out who wants what products at what price
- Detecting system anomalies
- Real-time analytics and metrics
- Rapid prototyping/mocking of new ideas
- Developing and maintaining back-end systems using Python
- UX and front-end development across all of our platforms
Our offices are located in the heart of Oslo, in close proximity to public transportation, cafés, restaurants, shopping centers, the sea and parks.
Send an email to jobs+hackernews@mcash.no to apply.
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[1] http://pehub.com/2014/02/norwegian-mobile-payment-provider-m...
[2] http://northzone.com
[3] http://entr...
Hiring: Technical Support Engineer (English, full time) + others
We are a small & successful bootstrapped software company from Germany and build popular web-based applications for software teams. We have been in business since 2004 and many thousands of teams, both small and large, use our products.
We are hiring for different positions, but our main focus right now is on hiring a technical support engineer to help us support our TestRail customers. This is not a typical support role though, as our products and customers are very technical (they are software dev/testing teams), so it's an interesting and challenging position.
As most of our customers are from the US, Canada or other non-German speaking countries, excellent English writing and communication skills are critical for this role (German not required). You can learn more about the Support Engineer role here:
http://www.gurock.com/about/jobs/support-engineer/
We have recently opened a nice office in Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg, near Mitte) and offer great benefits. We use a modern web development stack with PHP, an advanced custom MVC framework (like Rails), Vagrant etc. We provide a very productive and flexible working environment.
If you are in Berlin (or plan to move to Berlin soon) and one of our open positions sounds like a good fit, let me know.
Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 21 person team spread across 14 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $350,000 in March, and we have $580,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our total funding to date is $450,000 which we raised in December 2011, for which we gave up 14% of the company. I'm sharing all of this because one of the highest values we have at Buffer is to be fully transparent, and I'd love for you to be part of the incredible journey we've embarked upon.
At 16% month over month revenue growth on average in the last 6 months, we're seeing increasing demand to build out the product further and help our fast-growing customer base with all their social media problems. To achieve this, we'd love your help with some interesting engineering challenges. Do any of these areas stand out for you? I'd really love to hear from you:
Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS). I'll read through emails with our CTO Sunil, I hope yours might be part of that. Send him a quick note at thenexthacker@bufferapp.com. If you'd like you can check out more details about all the areas we need help with at http://jobs.bufferapp.comI'm excited about the chance to work with you. If you have any questions about our culture, product or journey so far, add a reply to this - I'll be checking throughout the day to get back to you :-)
- Joel (Founder/CEO)
Do you require people to work specific hours?
Hah, I thought the mention of Warwickshire would catch your eye. Would be great to join a homegrown tech company.
All the best.
How do companies get around having (what I consider to be) a necessary employee for a company of almost any size, especially when you're building your own networks and housing your own infrastructure?
I would cry if I was paid this much.
Edit: Please assess your contributions and value yourself at market value. Having a conversation with your manager about your market value should yield a higher salary that is competitive. If not, move along. As a mobile developer, you could be contracting for much more than 45k.
Depending on where you live, you could easily fetch $20k more, if not even more than that.
Good luck!
I have a feeling that getting any reply from you will be like a winning a lottery (thus, I've never applied so far).
We're lucky to have a lot of interest and so in some ways I guess it ends up like a lottery. At the same time, we try and share as much as we can around the culture and when it is a good fit. Here's a post about that: http://open.bufferapp.com/how-we-hire/
Let me know if you have any questions :-)
Edit: To answer your question about getting a reply - we reply to every single email, even though it can be tough and can take a couple of weeks or so for us to get to them all.
A couple of questions: 1) what are "Happiness Heroes" and "Weekend Warriors"? What do they do for your company?
2) it seems that Mary is getting screwed, although I don't know how much your equity is worth. Why the disparity between Mary's salary and Adam's? She makes 20% less but only has .045 percent more equity...
Happiness Heroes are the people who help customers with queries via Email, Twitter and Live Chat. Weekend Warriors are people in the team who help with those same things during the weekend (though it's a full-time 5 days a week role, so 3 other days too). We have 6 full-time members of this Happiness team, it's something we make a very high priority. In the last month we answered 92% of emails within 6 hours, 65% within 1 hour, with a volume of around 10,000 emails.
I can definitely see how it seems Mary is getting screwed. Our equity number there is misleading, she has 0.3% (column to the right). Key things to note: Mary lives in Spokane, which has a relatively low cost of living and falls into our "C" bracket in the salary formula. If she moves, her salary will go up by either $6K or $16K depending on where she moves to. Also, Mary chose equity over salary (yay) which is a choice to increase equity by taking $10K less salary. I hope that helps explain things there, let me know if you have any more questions!
I love how you guys went fully transparent but I lost it at this one lol. I was kinda put off by the "we get hundreds of emails" stuff but I guess I'll go ahead and join in the herd. You guys seem pretty cool.
I love that you guys are completely open but would love to know what your engineering interview process is like?
I'm awful at interviewing and would love to know how you guys handle it.
Question: Did you learn this hard way from your previous companies, or was it suggested by a mentor, or was it obvious to you from the beginning that it is good idea to write them down?
I'm an experienced dev (3+ years of wholesome experience + a solid work portfolio) and I could even deal with the rather significant pay cut I'd be taking... but a pay cut + risking not having employment, when I'm already settled in a current job?
No thanks.
But good luck.
I understand the problem for Buffer, but this isn't the solution.
I've heard of companies who offer people to consult on weekends for a predetermined total number of hours to accomplish much the same outcome. Annoying, but I'll play ball.
...but really. I seriously doubt any high-end dev talent is willing to take such risks. And if you think this hiring strategy would be successful in attracting high-end dev talent that really cares about Buffer, well you haven't examined the hiring market lately and are likely high off your own supply.
A lot of companies have probation periods though.
This is still "barely out of school, hardly knows what he's doing" stage :)
Edit - downvote me all you want, but if you are to show up on the interview and declare that you are in an "experienced dev (with 3+ years)", the interview will conclude quickly. It's not that you have just three years of experience, it's the fact that you think it's a lot. It's not. This makes you cocky and cockiness can be costly, especially in an otherwise coherent team.
...but that still doesn't negate the fact that expecting anyone worth their salt to give up a current level of security for a 45 day gamble with Buffer is a smart hiring strategy.
But he's still a baby in the crib with recruiters beating down his door left, right, and center, none of whom are expecting him to quit his job for a vague, conditional offer of employment.
This isn't about who deserves what, this is about the market conditions. Right now the market conditions are such that even devs with ~3 years of experience are highly sought after, with likely multiple recruiter contacts per day if they are even half decent at advertising their abilities.
This isn't about whether or not what Buffer expects is "wrong" (for whatever ephemeral notion of right and wrong), it's about what Buffer can get away with. In the current market they most certainly cannot get away with it.
Make sure your summary is well written and keyworded with words that recruiters are looking for (and that apply to you) - Rails, C++, graphics, what have you.
Flesh out your past jobs section. Keyword these descriptions too as relevant (technologies used, major popular frameworks, libraries, etc).
Basically reverse engineer the recruiter's practices - they're using a search tool, searching for keywords relevant to the position they're fielding. This is not very different from SEO. Increase the likelihood of being in a search result and watch the recruiters pile in.
While you're at it, make sure your resume is always up to date and available on your own website (if you don't have a website, get one). Make sure you are high up in Google results for your own name. Keyword your resume the same way you'd do your LinkedIn profile - maybe ~5% of the recruiters that show up end up coming directly via my website through some kind of search.
What I think is going on, having observed from outside for many years, is that a certain subset of companies are fighting over the same small subset of engineers (self confident, type A shameless marketeers who happen to already be located in SV, NYC, or Seattle) and complaining that they can't find people because this subset is too small to satisfy them all.
I have had a LinkedIn profile for almost as long as LinkedIn has been around. I have had a website with my own domain name since 1999. I do not have personal or professional experience in $FLAVOR_OF_THE_WEEK. Despite all the talk here and elsewhere about how its fundamentals that matter and anyone competent can pick up $LANGUAGE or $FRAMEWORK in the time it takes to become familiar with the codebase, everyone still seems to hire based on the buzzwords.
No one ever taught me that I should be treating my resume like an SEO problem. In fact, I have received so much contradictory advice about how to structure my resume over the years that I am almost ready to throw up my hands in disgust. Plus, the idea of keyword-loading my resume and LinkedIn profile makes me feel dirty; hell, SEO in general makes me feel dirty.
You belittle developers who are trying to advance themselves, their knowledge and make a good living with your Type A thing.
Everything starts off as a flavor of the week, Ruby on Rails was just a flavor of the week type deal and then it became huge. Same with Node now and with other stacks before that.
I've done recruiting, and am just finishing up a round for my company and lazy developers who half ass their resumes are frustrating. Trying to search for someone is a pain in the ass and not everyone is a professional developer, some of us are just developers at small companies trying to expand. If more people had well written LinkedIn profiles it would make our lives easier. If not a LinkedIn than you need to find some way to make yourself visible if you want to be headhunted.
That's not to say it's a bad thing, you can be a very well paid very comfortable developer without ever being head hunted, but having a well made portfolio will make your life easier certainly.
> You're not using the technologies that are in demand, you're not writing detailed work histories, and you're not putting key words into your resume, please tell me you do not wonder why you're not being head hunted.
I'm not sure if you are saying this with or without having looked at my information, so I will write the response assuming you have not.
I use what my employers require me to use, plus whatever else I can get away with that is appropriate for the task at hand. I also experiment with new languages in my free time, though I stopped listing those on my resume and LinkedIn profile on the advice that I should only be listing items I was willing to be tested on. If I find something that is better for a task that needs doing, I use it. As for my work history, I have a detailed history, but I tried to control the amount of detail in each entry to avoid making it too long.
> Everything starts off as a flavor of the week, Ruby on Rails was just a flavor of the week type deal and then it became huge. Same with Node now and with other stacks before that.
Absolutely, though most fade away into relative obscurity at some point. The point I was trying to make there is that I frequently see statements about fundamentals being important and specific technologies not being important because technologies can be learned quickly by a competent developer. Yet the laundry lists of technology requirements seems to grow monthly. I'm going to learn new stacks because they are interesting and potentially useful to me, not to pad my resume.
Overall, maybe it was a good thing I shoved my foot in my mouth above. It drove me to think critically about my overall presentation to the outside world. I usually approach it with too much emotional attachment.
I'd recommend listing them, especially if you are interested in jobs that use them. If you are suffering from a deluge of recruiters, by all means, do what you need to do to slow down the flow - but it doesn't seem like that's your problem.
Here's the thing - the people who are going to be interviewing you and ascertaining your technical capabilities are not the same ones looking for you on the internet (LinkedIn and beyond). Don't let a non-technical person say no to you (or worse, never see your profile to begin with).
Put the keyword up, there's no need to be deceptive about it. "Hi, you look like a good fit at our company because of X" "I've used X in my spare time but never professionally, if that's alright with you let's continue the conversation" - you'd be surprised at how many companies are willing to keep talking. The demand is intense.
There's nothing untoward or dishonest happening here. You're listing out the things that you know, you're not lying about anything, you're being entirely upfront - the only extra consideration is writing in such a way that someone searching for you would see you in a search result. Name-drop languages, frameworks, libraries, as appropriate, because those are the primary levers recruiters know to pull when searching.
> "I have a detailed history, but I tried to control the amount of detail in each entry to avoid making it too long."
I'd suggest expanding. We're way past the days where recruiting happened via a pile of resumes on someone's desk, and a long one would make it straight into the rubbish bin without a glance. By the time human eyes hits your profile page it's already gone through a search filter and likely other recruitment filters - it's okay to be a bit verbose since interest is already there. Especially if this verbosity increases your odds of making it past a search filter.
> "I'm going to learn new stacks because they are interesting and potentially useful to me, not to pad my resume."
Right, and my suggestion isn't to pad your resume with useless filler. That does nobody any good - recruiters end up looking at profiles that have nothing to do with the jobs they're looking to fill. The idea is to think about the jobs you want (and are qualified for), think about what their recruiters are searching for, and making sure your profile gets hit when they search for said things.
The goal isn't to appear in more search results in general, it's to appear in more search results relevant to the jobs you're looking to find.
Being as 90% of them can't tell the wheat from the chaff to save their skins, they have no other choice, really.
My point is: being cocky is always bad. There isn’t any real standards otherwise, but… you need to be aware that using absolutes makes you redeemable to a lot of things.
Filter out cockiness/arrogance that gets in the way of productivity/progress, etc: yes. Tell someone who's simply confident in their abilities that they don't know what they are doing because they only have 3 years of experience: no.
I understand that the prevalence of the so-called "entitled youth" has everyone ruffled these days, but there's a difference between being arrogant and feeling entitled (I'm sure these people exist, but don't they always), and not accepting the old world BS of bowing your head, taking everyone's shit, doing what you're told, then settling for the scraps that get thrown your way (something you should feel so lucky to have happen). In the case of the latter, that world needs to die, and I'm all about progress and moving past such suffocating, stagnating, backward nonsense.
Also, when it comes to programming, after about 5 years everyone evens out (with regards to gains unique/specific to years of experience) and there isn't really much difference. Everything past that is mostly inside knowledge or factual knowledge that you get from happening to work at one company or another (or with some person that happens to know said things). And since the technological landscape (past whatever the latest buzzwords or fads are) changes at least every 5 years, all that specific knowledge loses relevance with time.
That said, it really depends how much they are paying the prospective employee while contracting. If it's enough to make up for that then it might be worth the risk to some people.
I will say this, though— I give them credit for being open about what they really want. A lot of companies don't do that.
The transparency make them one of the better companies out there. Though I'm surprised this trial period isn't mentioned in their job listings in some way.
I'm sure you guys are great to work for, but don't promise to read every email if I'm just gonna get a mail merge reply.
Great point on this. We've recently had a meeting discussing this in detail, I think you're absolutely right, it doesn't make people feel great to get a standard response like the one you've received. We've been trying to come up with a better way to personally respond to people, which has proven quite difficult. There were 2,000+ applicants last month and I think we're still trying to figure out the best work-flow to make each response tailored.
I wanted to assure though that we've read your email (and we do read each and every email, always), even though we sent a standard response (which I totally agree with isn't a great method). Hope that might help and I hope we can come up with a better solution to respond to you and everyone individually in the future. If anyone has had experience on this, would love your thoughts!
That response sounds exactly like the problem. I believe that anything else than:
“Indeed. We f*cked up. I’ve e-mailed you with short answers. Detailed coming soon.
Anyone with a similar issue, please let us know how we can recognize your e-mail.”
would be inappropriate. No one not invited cares about a meeting. Starting by “Great point … absolutely right … doesn’t make people feel great … trying to come up with a better way” and other unnecessary precautions around completely obvious points makes you sound like a politician on SNL. There is no ‘trying to come up with better ways’ to a personal e-mail: there is starting to do it, realising you don’t have the man-power to do it, confessing that you are late on the task. It’s either more important than what you are working on or not, but that shouldn’t take ten lines to figure out.
I love you -- that’s why I tell you how you can be a better version of yourself.
I applied and received a form rejection (which I am actually OK with and totally understand) but when I sent two followup emails I heard no response back. If you really read every email, do you also ignore the questions?
I also asked for just a few sentences of feedback. I expect this from the average company, but not from yours. You have strong values, but don't live up to them.
What do you expect me to do with this information?
On a solution: if every email was read, they should be categorised to ascertain whether they require a tailored reply (ie they had questions that aren't answered with a stock response).
Unless the majority of emails had questions not covered in the response that was sent (I can't imagine they did) you would have a much smaller set of emails to tailor replies.
"I’m sorry to say we couldn’t bring you on board as our next Hacker at this point. I hope you don't take this personally. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the huge volume of people like you who sent in their fantastic experiences and ideas for what they would want to achieve as part of Buffer.
At this stage, we were only looking for a few more people, so the choice was extremely difficult to make and we had to turn away a lot of genuinely amazing people."
It sounds more like a template that was sent across multiple people.
It would appreciate if you only post here if there is genuine opening unless you are just craving for more and more applications(that doesn't make sense).
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