Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

Mercy Corps/Gaza Sky Geeks | Product Manager | Gaza, Palestine | ONSITE | Full Time

We are the first and only startup accelerator in Gaza run by Mercy Corps and founded with an initial grant from Google; and now a tech hub in the Google for Entrepreneurs partner network.

Are you interested in: - Scaling up a fresh market in the field of ‘Product Development & Management’? - Inspiring and teaching eager entrepreneurs how to launch their products? - Expose yourself to lot of startup opportunities within different country in the Middle East?

Have you built demonstrated ability to launch products successfully using an iterative, incremental, user-focused, and data-driven approach?

Reach out to us here: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=o4IL3fwk&s=Hacker_News

Mercy Corps/Gaza Sky Geeks | Software Engineering Manager | Gaza, Palestine | ONSITE | Full Time We are the first and only startup accelerator in Gaza run by Mercy Corps and founded with an initial grant from Google; and now a tech hub in the Google for Entrepreneurs partner network.

Are you interested in:

- Scaling up a fresh market and charting new territory while iterating on your own approach?

Have you built an experience as top notch software engineering manager with 8+ years of experience including managing teams of engineers?

Shipped multiple products successfully using an iterative, incremental, user-focused, and data-driven approach?

Reach out to us by visiting: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=o6IL3fwm&s=Hacker_News

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.

walrus01 · 9 years ago

Not exactly related to the job posting, but I am immensely curious what ISPs you use in Gaza and what their ipv4/ipv6 netblocks, ASNs and upstreams are. The OSI layer 1/2/3 topology of how traffic gets in and out of an embargoed semi-nation-state and the Israel question must be a huge complication.

umanwizard · 9 years ago

Is it actually possible for foreigners to relocate to Gaza to work?

thenipper · 9 years ago

It is! You'd be commuting into Gaza weekly and spending the weekends in Jerusalem. It does depend on nationality of course but is possible for foreigners to work in Gaza.

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 them as proxies. 
    Using IQ is mostly illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

  - Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth.

  - Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire  a sociopath.

     There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for < $50 per use.

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours. There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets.

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

[2] The illegality comes from IQ tests disadvantaging certain minority groups.

[3] Yes, I'm currently taking freelance work.

dragonwriter · 9 years ago

> Using IQ is mostly illegal[2] in the US

No, its not.

Like any input that statistically creates a disadvantage for any group defined by a protected criteria, it will, if challenged as discriminatory, require the user to demonstrate that there is sufficient evidence establishing that it is a reasonable predictor of job performance.

There is a pervasive myth that IQ tests specifically are "mostly illegal" in the US stemming from an early employment discrimination case in which the particular use was determined to be illegal, but its worth noting that in that case the IQ test was applied widely, it was part of a set of policies that were direct replacements for a policy of explicit racial discrimination (adopted once the company was subjected to nondiscrimination rules), and there was no evidence that could be offered linking it to performance in the jobs for which it was used. [0]

(It's perhaps worth noting that the case also addressed educational requirements -- the specific one at issue was a high-school diploma requirement -- which was found illegal in the particular use for the same reason as the particular use of the IQ test was, but for some reason no one has gone from that to adopting the idea that specific educational attainment requirements are generally illegal.)

[0] Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971)

spitfire · 9 years ago

Fine, I'll let you apply an IQ test to your hiring process first.

Quibble about my word choice all you'd like, but use a direct IQ test at your own peril.

keefe · 9 years ago

yikes.

There are existing tests available to test for being a sociopath...

this is super dehumanizing.

how about, do the work sample test and a few phone calls with somebody smart. You're going to scare off a lot of very picky people if you seem like you're going to be an irritating test focused person - yes lots of us do well on tests, I really don't want to talk about it every day.

rajesht · 9 years ago

The employees' attitude is the most important factor to consider in my opinion.

spitfire · 9 years ago

Yes I'd certainly add attitude and openness. Except I don't have any quantitative research to back that up, so you're just winging it at that point. Which ends us back exactly where we started.

GMA, work sample and integrity however DO have quantitative research to back them up.

turtles · 9 years ago

Using IQ as an indicator for a good candidate is flawed, and just plain stupid. That would not be a company I'd have any interest in working for.

umanwizard · 9 years ago

Flawed and stupid why? You can't just say non-obvious things like that without backing them up at all.

xando · 9 years ago

Hey, as usual, a friendly reminder.

All positions posted here are scraped and available to search on the map.

https://whoishiring.io/search/20.427/-57.788/3/

rocqua · 9 years ago

I like the 24 jobs in 'Remote Oregon'.

Right, this is an issue. It's need to be decided what to do when there is no location.

Said that. I think that the physical location is important (obviously for whoishiring.io is) even if the position is purely REMOTE. Some companies will avoid to add location even in this thread.

The company location answers few question. The timezone that the work is going on, the shape of the business / work agreement that could be enforced, money (obviously). Often remote work will require you to buy a ticket and visit the office from time to time.

sAbakumoff · 9 years ago

How did you do that?:) I implemented a similar stuff : https://sabakumoff.github.io/hn-sort-out/10.16.html

bipson · 9 years ago

Nice site!

I was wondering, it seem ski-slopes and -lifts are shown on the map (given a sufficient zoom-factor). Is this on purpose? :)

If I had to guess, I would say it is because you public transport is included?

Hah good one. It's a google maps feature. I think there is a way to disable it. But I could say that ski slopes are there to make a job position even more attractive :)

winter_blue · 9 years ago

Just for everyone's benefit, I've found http://hnhiring.me/ to be simpler to use, as they have a regex filter.

Lxr · 9 years ago

Very nice site! As some feedback it broke my back button on Firefox though and I couldn't return to HN.

thepredestrian · 9 years ago

That's a neat website. What technologies / frameworks were used to create the front-end?

Thanks.

It's Python down under with Elasticsearch, and the UI is AngularJS 1.

quickly · 9 years ago

Wicked site, thanks!

deafmacro · 9 years ago

Thanks!

iamnafets · 9 years ago

Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | Seattle | Full-Time | On-Site ($130-$250+ depending on experience)

Amazon's New Product Demand Forecasting team is responsible for one of the most challenging problems in supply chain optimization: predicting sales for products that have no sales history. This is a uniquely creative space in Forecasting requiring our machine learning models to capture both the nuances of the global consumer marketplace as well as customer behavior on Amazon. Our team works closely with research scientists to invent new ways to make use of novel data, solve hard engineering problems around scaling and performance in predicting for tens of millions of products, and iterates quickly in order to stay on the cutting edge. We're looking for an experienced, data-science-leaning software developer that is comfortable with big data and can:

* Design systems that provide a stable base for innovation in a rapidly changing business

* Improve Forecasting algorithms through data-driven analysis and experimentation in our Scala/Spark environment

* Optimize for scalability and performance of both distributed computations and near-metal C++ code

* Communicate their ideas clearly with all members of a diverse team

If this sounds interesting, I'd love to chat or buy you coffee. Email me (Stefan) at smai@ (amazon.com) with your resume and a brief introduction. (Interview process is 1 phone screen and onsite interview with whiteboard coding and behavioral questions about your experience.)

abysmallyideal · 9 years ago

I have a running bet they offshore or hire in Indian work to replace whoever gets hired for this, and they'll chase the dude out within a year.

inputcoffee · 9 years ago

If you could find someone offshore that is smart enough to improve a predictive algorithm by even 0.01%, you should hire them as well.

Consider that the holy grail is finding out if customers actually want a product.

Break that product down into features, and run a regression. Historically, how well does that do?

But these are new products. They have new features. How do you solve that?

In a sense this is "the" problem. Anyone who is genuinely additive would be fought over by any company that produces a new product.

You clearly don't understand the value that engineers in this role are able to create.

io · 9 years ago

GitHub: Atom | Full-Time | San Francisco, Boulder, Amsterdam, REMOTE, VISA

Come help us make Atom faster! Get paid to work on an open source editor used by over a million people every month.

https://atom.io | https://github.com/atom/atom

Some things we're focused on for the next six months:

  * Core Experience/Performance 
  * Git/GitHub integration 
  * Language integration: better auto-complete, syntax highlighting, and debugging 
  * Windows-specific features and fixes

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/github/baaa9a2c-c249-4d06-b73f-e9bee1a...

pea · 9 years ago

NStack | London, UK | Full time | Onsite | Functional Developers

We’re a building a "Cloud OS" for composable microservices using a mixture of Haskell and Linux systems technology (including containers, systemd, dbus), with some typed DSLs, systems code, and distributed systems thrown in. We want developers to spend more time writing core business-logic vs. writing infrastructure, and are using lessons from building programming languages and operating systems to accomplish this.

We’re looking for talented programmers -- preferably with some knowledge of typed functional languages and *NIX systems programming -- to join our small tech team to make this a reality. It’s a challenging role, working on hard problems, but the chance to work with a top technical team and shape a company and product from an early stage.

We’re funded by top-tier infrastructure investors from the West Coast, and the founders are both technical and ex-YC / academia. Salaries are competitive and include generous stock options. EU applicants welcome (other visas potentially possible), although roles are onsite only.

We’re looking at a range of positions and experience levels - whether you’ve just left uni or been hacking for 20 years, if you’re interested please get in touch. Any questions please comment, DM, or reach out via jobs@nstack.com or http://nstack.com/careers. Cheers!

mlitchard · 9 years ago

Hi,

I sent you e-mail on 09/27 with no reply from your end. So here is a ping. :)

mands · 9 years ago

Hi!

Thanks for the ping, your email hasn't been lost! :) Sorry for the delay, my fault, was at a conference at the end of last week, and unfortunately caught a cold after :(

Check your inbox - cheers!

aui-hn · 9 years ago

Amazon | AmazonUI (AUI) | Seattle; San Francisco | Onsite | Full-Time

AUI is the Front-end platform being adopted on Amazon.com. We are modernizing the company's front end code base, while diving deep on latency, performance, API design, user experience, and cross browser/device compatibility. Basically, we need people who can build libraries, not just use them.

Our team is incredibly customer-centric. For any given situation, we have to make the right choice on behalf of the folks using our platform -- and we have to do it at scale. That may sound cliche, but within the next hour AUI will be used to generate tens of millions of page views. And that's just in the US. Worldwide, we're used on more than 95% of requests across all device categories.

It's a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of opportunity. For example, we can run experiments that change almost every page on Amazon.com. We can also impact the page load time for the entire site. We use these tools (but don't expect you to know all of them): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Perl, Git

If you're interested in engineering or technical program manager roles, drop us an email: aui-hn (@) amazon (.) com

kshug1 · 9 years ago

I am a new grad in San Francisco and I would like to know if you are hiring for entry level positions too.

jonrkarr · 9 years ago

Karr Lab (http://www.karrlab.org) @ Mount Sinai Medical School | New York, NY 10029 | Full-Time | ONSITE

The Karr Lab at the Institute for Genomics & Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking talented, ambitious engineers to develop technology for building, simulating, and applying cutting-edge whole-cell computational models of individual cells.

We are developing whole-cell computational models which comprehensively predict how behavior emerges from the molecular level by representing all of the biochemical activity inside cells. Our goal is to use whole-cell models to transform bioengineering and medicine into rigorous, quantitative disciplines. Our work is highly interdisciplinary, involving systems biology, genomics, bioinformatics, data integration, parallel simulation, optimization, software engineering, and data visualization, and highly team-oriented.

We are looking for software engineers to develop several technologies, including a domain-specific language for describing whole-cell models, a parallel multi-algorithmic simulator, scalable tools for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional simulation results, and tools for handling personal `omics data.

More information: http://www.karrlab.org/join or Jonathan Karr (karr@mssm.edu)

How to apply: Send a cover letter and a CV to Jonathan Karr (karr@mssm.edu)

smockman36 · 9 years ago

I saw Dr. Karr present the Whole-Cell Computational Models a few months ago and I believe it's truly transformative work. Once you wrap your head around what they do, you'll understand the limitless potential this software could have. If you're interested, I think these two articles can give you a good idea of what Whole-Cell Modeling is: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(12)00776-3 https://covert.stanford.edu/publicationpdfs/DMacklin2014.pdf.

I applied to work with them at the time but they were low on funding. I would apply today if I weren't already happily employed. Good luck Karr Lab!