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bkudriaon Mike Moritz Stepping Back From Sequoia Due to Health Problems

You should ask yourself if the answer you're looking for will answer your question.

Minor correction: Coda isn't our CEO.

bkudriaon Yammer pulls down $85 million in venture funding

I gave an example in the paragraph right above that. There are many more examples and testimonials from paying customers at the link I posted. I'm happy to answer any more questions.

bkudriaon Yammer pulls down $85 million in venture funding

We don't throw this figure around lightly. Certainly some companies use Yammer more than others, but every company uses Yammer differently. Some companies even pay us for it.

bkudriaon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

Yammer is hiring engineers in SF and London, and a bunch of other non-engineering positions in London/NYC/AUS/elsewhere. Full jobs listing at https://www.yammer.com/jobs

Yammer is basically a social network for the enterprise, but Yammer isn't just where you talk about work, it's increasingly where you do work.

Large corporations are really inefficient and hierarchical and Dilbert-y, and we build software that treats every employee as an empowered human being. We have a success-story video on our site from Supervalu, a large retail store chain in the US, and their CTO tells a story about how Yammer literally changed the way they do business. In the old world, store managers would report their intelligence up the managerial chain, the upper management would try to synthesize everything, and 3 months later a "report" would be issued that told everyone how to best try to do their jobs. After Yammer, store managers would just talk to each other over Yammer, learn directly what was successful and what wasn't, and as a side effect, let the upper management gain invaluable visibility into day-to-day operations. When we say Yammer "breaks down silos" and "enables horizontal communication", this is what we mean. Sure, Yammer is just like Facebook, but we're so much more than that. Corporations don't share cat pictures, they turn into efficient business machines.

Supervalu testimonial video: https://www.yammer.com/customers In fact, Supervalu isn't the only company that has changed the way they work due to Yammer. We have tons of examples at that link. Yammer is used by 85% of the Fortune 500.

Yammer is expanding. We just raised an 85MM round, reflecting a valuation that puts on right up there in the enterprise software space. We're growing quickly and we need strong capable solid engineers to help us. We have an excellent technical platform but we need to scale more. This is where you come in. We're looking for engineers of all stripes, be it Ruby/Rails, JS/Node, Java/Scala, Obj-C/iOS/Android, or other. Again, full list at https://www.yammer.com/jobs

If you're remotely interested in solving real engineering problems at scale, for a serious application, I urge you to get in touch. My email is bkudria@yammer-inc.com, and you can ask me any questions about Yammer that you'd like.

bkudriaon Want to code for the devil?

That would be true only if no one was harmed by your profiteering.

bkudriaon How Yammer Should Have Responded to the TechCrunch Ad Hominem

Also on BusinessInsider: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-yammer-should-have-respon...

bkudriaon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

Hi, you might have heard of the company I work for, Yammer. We were in the news recently, and we're looking to hire in San Francisco.

We've got a variety of positions open, but since this is Hacker News, I'll tell you about our engineering team. Every single engineer here is the type of person that can be honest with themselves and others. We like to use tools and technologies because they allow us to build things our customers want, not because we think the tools are cool.

Some tools we use: Java. Scala. Ruby, and Rails, Javascript, Node.js, Objective-C, and C#. We like to store things in Postgres, Riak, Vertica, and our super-awesome custom-built distributed feeds DB written on top of BDB JE-HA.

If you're the type of engineer who believes in the One True Language To Rule Them All, we're not interested. If you're the type of engineer who doesn't understand how users think, we're not interested. Yammer has a high bar, and we're not willing to compromise on that. If you're confident in your abilities, and you think you can help use take over and change corporate America, let's talk.

Yammer is the type of place where you can use whatever resources you can muster to actually change the world. Yammer is used by many many large corporations, with real impact. We have customers inside the valley, outside the valley, and all around the world. We're used by a vast majority of companies in the Fortune 500. We have customers with 10 employees, 100 employees, and 100,000 employees. Or more. We allow those employees to all talk to each other, stay connected with their company, and do their job vastly more efficiently. Our customers stop sending email. Our customers communicate outside their departments, and low-level employees can have frank and honest conversations about their work with C-level executives. A Yammer company is quite different than your average company.

Our product is kinda like Facebook, and kinda like Twitter, sure. We're inspired by the best, and we won't hesitate to steal good ideas. But any change we make to our product is tested thoroughly and analyzed intelligently. We like the scientific method. We're not messing around. If you'd like to join a serious team of hard-working and effective engineers with their hearts set on changing how the modern corporation communicates, get in touch.

Yammer pays competitively. Yammer offers all the standard perks. Yammer is no longer allowed to host events in certain SOMA drinking establishments.

If you have questions, send me an email: bkudria@yammer-inc.com

bkudriaon Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco

Kids.

bkudriaon Major Porn Sites Sue ICANN Over .XXX

The .xxx domain was created so that Internet "filtering" companies can block it and protect the children.

I'm serious.

bkudriaon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)

San Francisco, CA - Yammer. Fulltime; H1Bs considered.

Yammer is an awesome tech startup masquerading as an enterprise software vendor. We're building an enterprise social network (an internal communication and collaboration tool. Like Facebook.) and we need your help.

We build our product with insight and wisdom gained from the consumer social networking space, but we charge enterprise prices (and our customers pay them!) We're fighting some big serious competitors (Salesforce/Chatter, Jive, and VMWare/Socialcast) and this space has never been more exciting.

Yammer is really changing the way people get work done. We have actual challenges to overcome and we're doing our best to make a kick-ass product that makes our users happy.

Tech we use: Ruby/Rails, Scala, and JavaScript. We have Obj-C and C# stuff too.

Some bullet points for you to skim:

• Amazing group of smart engineers to work with. Really.

• We hack in Ruby/Rails, Scala/JVM, Javascript/JQuery/Node.js/Adobe AIR, Obj-C for iOS, and some MSFT/Sharepoint stuff.

• Competitive compensation. Enough said.

• Delicious catered lunch and dinner daily, with a 3PM snack cart. Also a fully-stocked beer-and-beverage fridge.

• Fancy Apple hardware of your choice (you can have a PC if you really want one.)

Some links for you to read more:

• Our jobs page: https://www.yammer.com/jobs

• Our Engineering blog: http://eng.yammer.com/

• A blog post about why it's so awesome to work here: http://eng.yammer.com/blog/2011/5/31/shameless-recruiting.ht....

Feel free to get in touch: bkudria@yammer-inc.com

bkudriaon Rename the Very Large Array

"My Array Is Bigger Than Yours"

bkudriaon Report: Steve Jobs' private funeral held Friday

Let's not pay them any more attention.

bkudriaon World's Most Complex Radio Telescope Snaps Stunning 1st Photo of the Cosmos

"Things always look prettier in optical than in radio."

This is just an opinion expressed in an unusual way, right?

bkudriaon Contraceptive Used in Africa May Double Risk of H.I.V.

The HIV pandemic is a complex multi-institutional problem that affects millions of people world-wide. It's an extremely complex system with real-world consequences, and therefore it is fascinating. If you don't think the story belongs on HN, vote other stories up.

From the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

bkudriaon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

San Francisco, CA - Yammer