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Indeed | Multiple Roles, Candidate Qualifications Group | Full-time | REMOTE in US or Austin, TX The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 200MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. We're part of a product group helping to qualify & match candidates–all as part of a company with a genuinely positive mission.

We're currently have multiple roles spanning engineering, product and UX; including:

- Engineering manager, Assessments

- Engineering manager, Qualification Recommendations

- Product manager, Qualification Recommendations

- UX Designer, Qualification Recommendations

- Software engineer (multiple roles & levels)

I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, AWS, k8s, Elasticsearch

Indeed | Multiple Roles, Matching Recommendation Platform | Full-time | REMOTE in US or Austin, TX

The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 200MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. We're now part of a product group helping to qualify & match candidates–all as part of a company with a genuinely positive mission.

We're currently seeking an engineering manager on the Assessments team. We're also seeking software engineers and data scientists on our matching teams. We support remote in most US states, but working from our Austin or Sunnyvale offices when they reopen is also an option.

Here are some jobs within our product group:

Engineering manager, Assessments: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/manager-software-engineering-32...

Software Engineer: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineer-mrp-delivery-...

Data Scientist: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/principal-data-scientist-match-...

Senior Data Science Manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/senior-data-science-manager-mat...

I encourage anyone here who is interested to email us directly: mconley@indeed.com or edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, AWS, k8s, Elasticsearch

To be fair Adobe IPO'd in 1986, long before SaaS was a thing. I wouldn't say they quite fit the bill of "built by selling large enterprise software contracts".

Came here to recommend The Mom Test

This is a nerd way of saying what I already do, which is

"hire people with a high ceiling"

Just look at an image search for "spaced repetition" and you can create it from the graphs you see.

Essentially you're creating a set of reminders/events with linear or exponential spacing between. A common pattern appears to be 1, 3, and 6 days after first learning, which is also 1, 2, and 3 days apart from each other.

Looks really great. I have 2 ecomm side projects I'd like to start using this in right away.

BTW what happened to the live stream application/idea?

> 4. Brings temporary residents into neighbourhoods that have no tie to that neighbourhood.

Where I live we call this "tourism"

Indeed | Multiple Roles, Candidate Delivery & Quality Teams | Full-time | REMOTE in US or Austin, TX

The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 200MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. We're part of a great product group doing interesting work for a company with a genuinely positive mission.

There are 2 open full-stack engineering positions on Assessments, and we have several other openings within our product group–including data science, product managers, and engineering manager. We support remote in most US states, but working from our Austin or Sunnyvale offices when they reopen is also an option.

Here are some jobs within our product group:

Full-stack software engineer: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineer-26384/

Engineering manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineering-manager-au...

Product manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/product-manager-candidate-quali...

I encourage anyone here who is interested to us me directly: mconley@indeed.com or edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, AWS, k8s

“Crucial Conversations” Best book I’ve read during the pandemic and probably most useful in my current stint as an engineering manager. Also extremely applicable to personal relationships (marriage, kids, etc)

Indeed | Multiple Roles, Assessments Team | Full-time | REMOTE in US or Austin, TX

The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 200MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. I'm biased, but IMO we're a great team doing interesting work for a company with a genuinely positive mission.

I have 3 open full-stack engineering positions on my team, and we have several other openings within our product group–including data science, product managers, and engineering manager. We support remote in most US states, but working from our Austin or Sunnyvale offices when they reopen is also an option.

Here are some jobs within our product group:

Full-stack software engineer: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineer-26384/

Engineering manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineering-manager-au...

Product manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/product-manager-candidate-quali...

I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, React, AWS, k8s

First, they have "Private Equity" job openings, so that's definitely part of it.

More specifically it will be about scaling the brands they buy and cross-selling when possible. A lot of e-commerce brands/founders hit a ceiling around $1-5M in revenue. At that point, you need more experienced operators to get to $10M or $100M. People who know how to optimize marketing, conversions, fulfillment, and who can move into new channels (eg get on shelves at Target or Costco). A lot of online store founders don't want to deal with that.

Once they hit a certain number of brands under their umbrella, there will be cross-selling/marketing opportunities (assuming they're not just buying Amazon FBA drop ship brands). They can combine email lists and will eventually have good data to power product recommendations.

I'm guessing here, but the long-term play is eventually put all brands under a single online store–in other words, a new amazon.

Indeed | Multiple Roles, Assessments Team | Full-time | REMOTE in US or Austin, TX

The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 200MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. I'm biased, but IMO we're a great team doing interesting work for a company with a genuinely positive mission.

I have 3 open full-stack engineering positions on my team, and we have several more within our product group–including data science, PMs, and EMs. We support remote in most US states, but working from our Austin office when it reopens is also an option.

Here are some jobs within our product group:

Staff software engineer: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/staff-software-engineer-24314/

Engineering manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineering-manager-au...

Product manager: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/product-manager-candidate-quali...

I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, React, AWS, k8s

Indeed | Multiple Roles, Assessments Team | Full-time | REMOTE or Austin, TX

The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 200MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. I'm biased, but IMO we're a great team doing interesting work for a company with a genuinely positive mission.

I have 4 open full-stack engineering positions on my team, and we have several more within our product group–including data science and UX. For most roles we support remote in most US states, but working from our Austin office when it reopens is also an option.

Official job description is here: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineer-26379/

I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, React, AWS, k8s

Indeed | Software Engineer, Assessments Team | Full-time | REMOTE or Austin, TX

The Assessments team at Indeed was born out of a YCombinator startup (Interviewed YCS15) that was acquired by Indeed in 2017. We now administer over 100MM skills assessments per year to job seekers worldwide. We have two open positions for full-stack engineers who want to help us tackle a variety of scaling and product challenges. I'm biased, but IMO we're a great team doing interesting work for a company with a genuinely positive mission.

In addition to our startup roots, our team is a bit unique in that (a) we own both employer and job seeker-facing deployables, (b) we work in both Java and Ruby on Rails codebases, and (c) we were heavily remote even before COVID. For these new roles we support remote in most US states, but working from our Austin office when it reopens is also an option.

Official job description is here: https://www.indeed.jobs/jobs/software-engineer-26379/

I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, React, AWS, k8s

Yes, sorry. My original name/domain for this was "dtc dir" but I got a lot similar feedback.

Edit: DTC = "Direct to Consumer" which refers to companies that only sell their own brand, usually on Shopify or Big Commerce stores. The most well-known are probably Allbirds, Casper, Away, and Glossier.

I built this over the holidays and have been iterating on it each weekend. Finally feel like it's worth sharing here and getting some feedback.

Backstory: last year my Amazon account got compromised. After multiple emails and phone calls, Amazon closed my account TO ME but couldn't stop the random orders, fake reviews, questions, etc. My new years resolution for 2021 is to not buy anything on amazon for the entire year.

I started keeping a spreadsheet of DTC brands I like. Over the holidays someone on Twitter suggested a "StumbleUpon for ecommerce" and that became the impetus to turn my spreadsheet into Shiny.

Feedback welcome.

Stack: Rails, PG, Redis, TailwindCSS, and a couple APIs for screenshots and images.

Also, any advice welcome on getting my Amazon account back (purely so I can access/transfer all my Kindle books).

I'm building a DTC ecommerce directory and discovery platform: https://www.shiny.sale/

It's sort of a "stumbleupon for ecommerce" and curated brand/product index. It started because I grew increasingly frustrated with Amazon last year, which culminated in my account getting compromised and closed. I had been keeping a spreadsheet of DTC brands I liked so I turned it into this.

This is pretty cool. I recently built a "StumbleUpon for eCommerce stores" (https://www.shiny.sale/) and did quite a bit of research trying to find a good screenshot API. I eventually settled on ApiFlash.

I would definitely use this once I got into editorial content. I have a few suggestions for your homepage though:

1. The 3 steps you outline are still too vague, especially step 3 ("upload it to your blog post"). Makes it sound like this will be one of my main images. I'd suggest some more detailed instructions for different blog platforms.

2. Is there no API or other way to auto-generate an image? If not, I'd suggest that be your next feature.

3. One of the examples (BBC) I generated resulted in a 3.3MB PNG file. You maybe want to provide some better compression/minification options for people. You definitely shouldn't be creating high-res PNGs when images are involved.

4. It was also 2400x1260 which doesn't qualify as a "Thumbnail" IMO. You may want to generate files closer to the preferred social specs. Twitter, for example, wants files < 5MB and don't need to be anywhere near that big[1].

Anyway, hope that is helpful feedback. Great idea and MVP. Keep it up!

[1] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c...

Don’t forget almost 10% sales tax on most things you buy, the most expensive gas in the country, and property taxes that–while low compared to other states–are still applied to much more expensive properties.

At least our public schools are ranked 38th.

By itself maybe not. The problem is I live in California, which means I pay about 40% income tax (state and federal combined). Yet I still don’t get health care/coverage.

Also notice how the gap in that graph is getting wider. It gets worse every year.

A quick search gave me that as an average for a family of 4 in California. I agree with you and was trying to give a conservative number.

> I make more than enough to afford proper health insurance on the open market. Everyone at Gumroad is paid very well and should be able to afford the same.

This might be true for everyone at Gumroad, but I wouldn't be so sure. You also seem dismissive (probably unintentionally) of one of the biggest problems we have in the US right now: health care and insurance is ridiculously expensive–especially for people with families who want to be self-employed or contractors.

A family of 4 who doesn't qualify for ACA subsidies is going to pay $1,400/month or more out-of-pocket for health insurance. And it goes up every year. Imagine paying 10%+ of your salary just for health insurance.

Yes and yes. Thanks.

I was denied access to Stripe Issuing for a project I have in the works. I wasn't given a lot of details why or when I could reapply.

Is the same thing going to happen with Stripe Treasury? How can I find out if what I want to do is permissible now that Treasury exists?

Yup, just got it too.

Employees that get and exercise stock options are not accredited investors either. Couldn't they take a similar route?

I admit, I ask mostly selfishly (my wife and I are superhosts, we have managed a full-time AirBnB in CA for 2 years). But it's also an interesting thought experiment. It would be quite the contrast to how the rideshare and food delivery companies treat their non-employees.

I heard a podcast discuss the possibility of AirBnB offering shares or options to superhosts (like me) ahead of the IPO–essentially as a "thank you" to the people who helped build the marketplace.

Anyone have thoughts on if that is possible or plausible?

Options go up/down in value at a different rate than the underlying stock. This is known as the "delta" (one of the "greeks"). More info here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/delta.asp

A 2.87% change in the stock can move option values quite a bit. Example:

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/AMZN/volatility-greek...