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Comment by joeyspn | Hacker News Reader

Blockchain Trading Platform | Several positions | Remote | Full-time | $160k-$220k + Rev share

Hi! join us and help us build a trading platform for digital assets from scratch! We are a group of HNers with experience working with top financial firms, that have united to explore and push the boundaries of financial innovation launching a next-gen cryptotrading platform. You'll be able to participate in the initial architectural and design decisions building a product in a fast-moving and thriving industry.

Positions (all $160k-$220k):

   Senior Trading Systems Engineer  	(C/C++, KDB+/Q, HFT, Trading Engines, Risk Management)
   Senior Front-end Engineer		(React, Redux, ES2015/Typescript, RxJS)
   Senior Back-end Engineer		(Node, REST, Microservices, Websocket servers)
   Blockchain Engineer			(Crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Smart Contracts)
   Principal Security Engineer		(Nessus, WAF, IDS, DMZs, DDoS mitigation, Pentesting, Code review)
   Senior Infrastructure Engineer	(AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, HA, Monitoring, Logging)

Benefits & Perks:

   - 0.5 to 2.5% revenue sharing
   - 100% remote position (looking also offices in the City of London)
   - 40h/week organised as you want
   - Friendly startup atmosphere
   - No hard deadlines

If you are interested ping me (email in my profile)

Cheers!

No offense intended, but I've seen this same posting here the past 3 months with the same description. Several people (including myself) have reached out to learn more and received no response. I'm sure this has drawn a good amount of interest, but I'm curious: has anyone actually received a reply?

Hi Nate, sorry, we have received a lot of applications. It's been impossible to reply to all. We also had to pause the application process during the last 3 weeks, and we are resuming it today.

I promise we'll send an email to everyone once we move to the next stage in the coming couple of weeks(we're still screening). Apologies again.

Not sure why downvote, it sounds like an honest response.

Because you shouldn't tell people to contact them and then ignore them like they don't matter. How you treat candidates is a good indication as to how good of a company you are. When I posted on HN years ago I made sure to contact every single person back because it's the right thing to do.

Thanks for the update.

I too reached out early-October. Should we assume our initial contact will suffice, and you will be replying if there is mutual interest?

Precisely. We'll contact you if we find your profile interesting.

>> I promise we'll send an email to everyone once we move to the next stage

>> Precisely. We'll contact you if we find your profile interesting

Which is it? I realize it's S.O.P. in the talent acquisition business to keep the net open and catch one fish while the rest swim around in the pen, but hold yourself and your company to a higher standard.

I understand, I'm just looking to hear from someone who has received a response. Have you been requesting applications for 3 months but haven't reached out to anyone?

Yes, we've reached to many people with a very specific background... and since I posted today's job offer I've personally replied to like 20 emails.

Okay. Again, I don't mean any offense, I know this stuff takes time. It just seemed strange that so many people were saying the same thing.

Hi, to confirm, I've received a response from these guys :) I wasn't successful but I have received a response.

Ok! Thanks for letting me know. It just seemed strange.

FYI, sounds really interesting, but I'm going to pass.

With all due respect, this behaviour is a hiring smell.

Haven't received a reply either. Also have seen the OP post the same response here multiple times. Is there much benefit in keeping the flood gates open if you're already overwhelmed?

I'm going to chime in here also. I sent an email quite a while ago and heard absolutely nothing. Considering I have basically an unbelievable amount of experience related to this I was surprised that I didn't even get a followup or inquiry.

Hiring is hard, this could be just the result of poor hiring practices, or it could be something else entirely. Either way, it gives a very poor impression, and considering how small the pool of talent in HFT and Smart Contracts is that isn't something a new company can afford to do.

> Hiring is hard, this could be just the result of poor hiring practices, or it could be something else entirely.

This is the result of reaching the top of Who's Hiring twice, we received almost 2k emails when we expected 50-100. I'm the only one screening CV's with 1-2 hours/day available for this task.

If anyone is expecting a Google structure behind this, then no. We are 3 normal guys starting a new project from scratch, and said it in the job posts. Because of the growing interest in crypto, we had massive unexpected success with our job posts and we are a bit overloaded.

We are sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused. We won't post again until we have a recruitment team in place.

I'd suggest then to put perhaps even a small team to help with the recruitment process? Maybe 2-3 person who can review and screen around 100 CVs per day? Tedious task, but doable.

I also reached out to you several times and you did not even bother to reply. Even Amazon, Google and Microsoft replies, at the very least with a sorry not this time default answer.

Sorry, I've sent you an email.

No response heard since last contact, seen it way too many times here.

There are companies that repeat the job posting for 10+ months in a row. We've only posted 3 months... but you are right, we haven't replied to some of you and we are very sorry for that.

No worries, makes you believe it is a fake ad. Landed a job already :)

Pinged you last week but never heard back.

Why would you expect to hear back? How can a company reply to every person that applies for a position? If they’re interested, they’ll respond. It’s like Tinder. They got your email. Don’t get upset because one startup (that’s likely going to fail) didn’t like your resume more than other ones, or hasn’t gotten to it.

This is “nice guy” behavior.

If they read the mail, it doesn’t take much longer to reply a no with some copy/pasta. It is basic respect.

Ridiculous! There are maybe hundreds of resumes being scanned. How could you do anything other than send a generic response? Why would you want a generic reply saying “yup, got your resume, email still works...”

Show yourself some respect and stop complaining about being rejected. You sent an email, they didn’t reply, ignore it.

Not one reply gave a good rationale...downvote all you want.

There's a difference to getting your feelings hurt and expecting a little decency. A company the solicits applications should definitely be held to the later.

Respect and decency is a 2-way street. I've stopped posting jobs to HN because, even though I explicitly state that I'm not looking for interns or remote candidates, I still get hundreds of e-mails asking if I will make an exception. The ones I reply to are often persistent, and even sometimes accuse me of some sort of "-ism" for rejecting them.

You're assuming a lot... they could also be trying to get their attention again. Why would you give up just because you didn't hear back? Persistence is good.

Shouldn't have bothered with a throwaway to demean people for wanting an answer to their email

Sure, ignore spam applications but do send a note to let them know they got it

Hey Chris, just sent you an email.

Thanks, Jose. HN folks, Jose really did reach out and seems sincere. A response, even an auto-responder, is always appreciated when the HN community is involved and I think he understands this now.

You don't have time to reply to people but still have time to post here every months...

Hi Jules, this is the 3rd month that we post. In 2 months we've received a lot of CVs, but I'm afraid it's been impossible to reply to all of you.

Please don't take it personally. I'll send you an email now.

Sent you a follow-up about the Principal Security Engineer position, I'd love to have a chat.

Yeah these guys are a bit disorganized o.O

Which is rather disappointing considering the potential of the space.

Welp, I'm an ass, just got a very thoughtful e-mail from Jose, pay no attention to my comments...

Hey José, I also sent an email a couple of weeks ago and didn't received any reply

Pedro, I just sent you an email. Apologies for the delay...

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