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utmachina··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
Stealth Cryptocurrency Consultancy | Senior Engineer Consultant | SF | Remote can be considered. BASE $50-70k + $100K+ Bonus (annual) We raised more than $10 million from angels to start a cryptocurrency consultancy. You will be working with some of the pioneers of crypto to fulfill our client's needs. We are currently looking for experienced systems engineers (we use Rust). The projects we work on are extremely challenging, completely green field, and potentially very rewarding. Prior crypto experience is desired. email chengxin.tan@protonmail.com w/ CV, Resume https://distributed.engineer/
utmachina··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
Stealth Cryptocurrency Consultancy | Senior Engineer Consultant | SF | Remote can be considered. BASE $50-70k + $100K+ Bonus (annual) We raised more than $20 million from angels to start a cryptocurrency consultancy. You will be working with some of the pioneers of crypto to fulfill our client's needs. We are currently looking for experienced systems engineers (we use Rust). The projects we work on are extremely challenging, completely green field, and potentially very rewarding. Prior crypto experience is desired.

email chengxin.tan@protonmail.com w/ CV, Resume

utmachina··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Stealth Cryptocurrency Consultancy | Senior Engineer Consultant | SF | Remote can be considered. BASE $50-70k + $100K+ Bonus (annual)

We raised more than $20 million from angels to start a cryptocurrency consultancy. You will be working with some of the pioneers of crypto to fulfill our client's needs. We are currently looking for experienced systems engineers (we use Rust). The projects we work on are extremely challenging, completely green field, and potentially very rewarding. Prior crypto experience is desired.

email chengxin.tan@protonmail.com w/ CV, Resume

utmachina··on How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon
This is strictly for those in college with the TIME to study and interview. I'm a year out of a top-10 college; just signed a new job offer recently. Let's just say that difference is day and night. College is very much a cushion for your job search process. Grown ups have to deal with the emotions of failing startups, working over time to push through deals/compliance issues. Try having the stress of a family and dependents, yikes...
utmachina··on Square Said to Acquire Team from Struggling Social App Yik Yak
I think the key problem was the hype train and the lack of product-oriented/technical leadership.

remembered them doing very well on campus last two years of college. They had on campus reps to hand out "schwag"; probably not very fun to scale. The obvious bullying was the problem. If they had found some way to solve that and snuck their way back into high schools...

then again, kids can be so cruel.

utmachina··on More startups are opting for “second” seed rounds
literally just a filler piece surrounding a chart.
utmachina··on Triplebyte expands its recruiting platform beyond YC, signs up Apple, Facebook
CURRENT CANDIDATE REVIEW

First Round: Online quiz: pretty easy, very intuitive questions. Different languages, but concepts are language-agnostic.

Second Round: Onsite (I live close by). One OOP coding question, Lightning round of very basic college CS concepts, and debugging session.

First Round Matches: The company tries to match you with 10 companies; I got 5. All the companies were either YC or top-vc funded. I received responses from 3 companies; the startups move very quickly -- onsite within a week. However, I've interviewed with 2 of the 3. Did not get an offer from either (qualification and mismatch in culture-fit).

PROS: - The team moves VERY fast when it comes to companies (really tough to think of PTO excuses) - Responsive - each candidate is assigned to a single talent manager - After the initial matches did not fit my liking or yield any results, my talent manager immediately started looking for new matches.

CONS: - Initial matches were not what I was looking for/interested in. (hopefully being fixed).

So far, the experience has been positive. Personally, the lack of stress of finding places to submit to is a huge plus.