Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.
We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!
We're looking for people who want to work with:
* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)
* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)
* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team)
* Data science / data analysis (using big data tools like hive to analyze an amazing proprietary dataset)
* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!
* Product manager and design (UI or UX) roles too
* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.
That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.
We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (in-office go-karts!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.
This really has to stop , you are just wasting other candidates time , i know more of a dozen of people that did not get any response back not even automatic rejection , and also a lot of people here had the same problem , i find this as highly disrespectful for candidates , i hope this post stops posts like these.
It's true that I don't respond to every candidate, but I also never promised to. I DO read every single resume sent to me, guaranteed. Normally I just only reach out to people that I think are a good fit for us. I end up responding to at least a dozen candidates for each HN posting. Please keep in mind there is no automation here, and no recruiters - it's just me, and I have to balance running a company.
That said, you are 100% right that I should send at least some response to everyone, even people we aren't going to move forward with. I'm working on a process for this and will start doing it soon.
In the meantime, I want to personally apologize if you feel I wasted your time. If you want to send me a note via email I'm happy to give you some individual feedback on your application and why we didn't feel it was a good fit.
Just to chime in, the fact that this substantially-identical ad has been running here and on CL for years, while rejecting lots of people, says maybe the requirements can be massaged a bit to reflect what you're actually looking for in light of what you aren't finding in the many people who do attempt to get their foot in the door.
We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!
We're looking for people who want to work with:
* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)
* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)
* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team)
* Data science / data analysis (using big data tools like hive to analyze an amazing proprietary dataset)
* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!
* Product manager and design (UI or UX) roles too
* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.
That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.
We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (in-office go-karts!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.
You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service here http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. Last month we launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6
More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jaredf at scribd.com.