Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE | VISA | Full-time
Course Hero is changing education by building a global community of students, the largest digital library of study materials, and innovative machine learning technology to support both learning and teaching.
We are a top-250 traffic site that practices continuous deployment.
Our engineering teams release code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for people who can embrace challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Our projects are big - many terabytes of data and millions of users around the world - but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish and work closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.
I've found that when I match or beat the offer they leave anyways in 6-9 months. So now, I no longer fight to keep them. If they were a great employee I chalk it up as a loss and try to be smarter and more proactive next time.
Contrary to what many people think, few of us have managers who can consistently and successfully lay out the optimal career path and help us achieve it. I'd say there are three main reasons:
1. It's really hard to do.
2. Few people have themselves been trained on management.
3. Faced with 1 and 2, people focus on their own, more familiar personal deliverables.
What you're finding is that working as both a full-time manager and full-time engineer is very difficult, borderline impossible. Eventually, you'll have to choose. An increasing number of small companies are starting to understand this reality, and allow their top people to grow into either technical leadership or management leadership roles. Expecting both, simultaneously, is not realistic.
> Then drop in this hard truth - recreational travel isn't actually all that commonplace amongst average people. The average joe goes on one or two major vacations in their entire life.
is similar to what sama said about why his local startup (Loopt) failed[0]:
> Most people are too boring I think--they're at the same places most of the time.
Some serious judgement from sama in that comment. Maybe "average people" would like us techies more if we weren't so sanctimonious in addition to being affluent and insular.
Man, I've been wanting one of those for years. Even just searching for interesting concerts is a tedious chore on most sites. The lack of anything like this means I basically have a few favorite local venues, and I try to keep up with their programs. It's really not ideal.
There is a small site that maintains an event calendar for my city, oriented towards a certain subculture. That's by far the best thing I've seen for discovering new things to do.
I don't know if there's an actual business model in any of this. That's definitely the hard part. But it would be such a useful resource.
Yeah I'm curious too. Did you try Zvents, the company mentioned in mrbirds link? Which city? I normally live in London where a big problem is filtering the events for the cool stuff as there's >1000 things/week. Never heard of Zvents before.
If you're in New York City and enjoy house, funk or soul music, I highly recommend DanceDeets[0] for a carefully curated list of events, some of which would be difficult to find otherwise.
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE and we do offer relocation and VISA sponsorship
Course Hero is an education technology platform that helps millions of learners succeed. We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board:
* Full-stack web
* iOS
* Android
* Product and Marketing
* Business Analysts
Our team releases code every day, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each person has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely in teams of engineers, product managers and designers to ensure successful results.
Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.
For mobile, we’re focused on iOS and Android for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.
ONSITE but we do offer RELOCATION and VISA sponsorship
tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board. EdTech.
Course Hero is looking for engineers who can hit the ground running in a variety of roles:
★ Full-stack web
★ iOS
★ Android
We’re also hiring in product and marketing.
Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.
Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.
Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.
For mobile, we’re focused on iOS and Android for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.
NO REMOTE, but we do offer RELOCATION and VISA sponsorship
tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board. EdTech.
Course Hero is looking for engineers who can hit the ground running in a variety of roles:
Full-stack web
iOS and Android
UX/UI Design
We’re also hiring in product and marketing.
Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.
Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.
Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.
For mobile, we’re focused on iOS for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.
Like any other set of knowledge, the real skill lies on knowing when and how to apply it. When asked to describe our process, I summarize it as "minimalist Scrum." To us, that means using some aspects of Scrum (small team sizes, prioritized work backlogs, and daily standups) and ignoring others (anything with the word "sprint" in it, pre-planned release cycles, and velocity estimation/tracking). Our culture is more built around continuous deployment.
We've found the process that works well for us, and I encourage everyone to be thoughtful and consider many approaches as they try to do the same.
Course Hero is changing education by building a global community of students, the largest digital library of study materials, and innovative machine learning technology to support both learning and teaching.
We are a top-250 traffic site that practices continuous deployment.
Our engineering teams release code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for people who can embrace challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Our projects are big - many terabytes of data and millions of users around the world - but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish and work closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.
We're hiring for many roles:
* Staff Engineer, Front-end (React, MVC, etc.)
* Senior Engineer, Search (Elasticsearch, ML, etc.)
* Senior Engineer, Back-end (PHP, Symfony, Microservices, etc.)
* Senior Machine Learning Engineer (TensorFlow, etc.)
* Principal Data Engineer
And many more!
https://www.coursehero.com/about-us/ https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/
Email: jobs (at) coursehero (dot) com (put HN in the subject)