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joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
Scribd | Software Engineers, Engineering Manager, and more | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. At the beginning of the year we hit 1M paying subscribers (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/scribd-1-million-subscribe...)! We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.

We are hiring software engineers across the board, including recommendations, search, payments, Android & frontend-web. In particular we're looking for:

• Manager of Infrastructure Engineering

• Search Engineers

• Backend generalists for Content Engineering

In Amsterdam we are hiring backend software engineers with solid experience in building, running and scaling out cloud-native microservices (preferably in Ruby and/or Go). We value a hacker mindset, clean coding and a natural aversion to complexity (or if you're a glass-half-empty person: an affinity for simplicity).

Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance. In general we care way more about your personality and hacking skills than what languages you’ve used so far.

We have hired many people from these threads, including myself. If you have questions you can reach out to me directly at joe at scribd.com (I'm the Director of Application Engineering and happy to answer questions related to these roles - recruiters/agencies: please do not contact me).

Please apply directly via https://jobs.lever.co/scribd?lever-via=VzDSh9ZP1p

joeconway··on Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
You should try Scribd.com for audiobooks (disclaimer: I work there)
joeconway··on Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
From the article:

"To shut down the web server, run lsof -i :19421 to get the PID of the process, then do kill -9 [process number]. Then you can delete the ~/.zoomus directory to remove the web server application files."

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
Scribd | Web + Android + iOS + Engineering Managers | Full time | ONSITE (REMOTE possible for more senior candidates in certain US states) | San Francisco, Toronto

Scribd offers all you can read ebooks and audiobooks for $8.99 a month and our apps get a ton of usage. We strive to build a great product, whilst considering ourselves primarily a technology company. We love to address technical debt, do things right the first time, encourage refactoring & trust engineers to know what is important.

The job right now involves primarily Javascript (Web team), Kotlin (Android team) and Swift (iOS team) interfacing with a Ruby on Rails backend.

Our interview process involves only directly relevant programming tasks, on your own hardware (if thats possible), with no whiteboard coding.

We’ve hired a bunch of people from these “Who is Hiring?” HN threads, including myself!

Please apply directly via the links below and I’ll know it is from here.

Web: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/0c5eb3b4-0241-4aae-bc15-5418b8b...

Android: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/4fa6b064-48fe-46fa-aab4-6fba243...

iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/6d283383-27ed-49f9-992c-11c287e...

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I’m the head of mobile and frontend web engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role).

Bonus Role! If you are an engineering manager with experience as a javascript engineer, ideally using React, then please reach out to me.

@recruiters & agencies - please do not contact me

joeconway··on Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin
I think your numbers here are either out of date or not consistent for some reason. I got a batch of Humalog yesterday which claims 'retail price $1416.59' for 10 100 unit pens.
joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
Scribd | Android + iOS | Full time | ONSITE (REMOTE possible for more senior candidates in certain US states) | San Francisco, Toronto

Scribd offers all you can read ebooks and audiobooks for $8.99 a month and our apps get a ton of usage. We strive to build a great product, whilst considering ourselves primarily a technology company. We love to address technical debt, do things right the first time, encourage refactoring & trust engineers to know what is important.

The job right now involves primarily Kotlin and Swift interfacing with a Ruby on Rails backend.

Our interview process involves only directly relevant programming tasks, on your own hardware (if thats possible), with no whiteboard coding.

We’ve hired a bunch of people from these “Who is Hiring?” HN threads, including myself!

Please apply directly via the links below and I’ll know it is from here.

Android: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/4fa6b064-48fe-46fa-aab4-6fba243...

iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/6d283383-27ed-49f9-992c-11c287e...

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I’m the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role).

@recruiters & agencies - please do not contact me

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
Scribd | Android + iOS | Full time | ONSITE (REMOTE possible for more senior candidates in certain US states) | San Francisco, Toronto

Scribd offers all you can read ebooks and audiobooks for $8.99 a month and our apps get a ton of usage. We strive to build a great product, whilst considering ourselves primarily a technology company. We love to address technical debt, do things right the first time, encourage refactoring & trust engineers to know what is important.

The job right now involves primarily Kotlin and Swift interfacing with a Ruby on Rails backend.

Our interview process involves only directly relevant programming tasks, on your own hardware (if thats possible), with no whiteboard coding.

We’ve hired a bunch of people from these “Who is Hiring?” HN threads, including myself!

Please apply directly via the links below and I’ll know it is from here.

Android: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/4fa6b064-48fe-46fa-aab4-6fba243...

iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/6d283383-27ed-49f9-992c-11c287e...

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I’m the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role).

@recruiters & agencies - please do not contact me

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Scribd | Android + iOS | Full time | ONSITE (REMOTE possible for more senior candidates in the US) | San Francisco, Toronto

Scribd offers all you can read ebooks and audiobooks for $8.99 a month and our apps get a ton of usage. We strive to build a great product, whilst considering ourselves primarily a technology company. We love to address technical debt, do things right the first time, encourage refactoring & trust engineers to know what is important.

The job right now involves primarily Kotlin and Swift interfacing with a Ruby on Rails backend.

Our interview process involves only directly relevant programming tasks, on your own hardware (if thats possible), with no whiteboard coding.

We’ve hired a bunch of people from these “Who is Hiring?” HN threads, including myself!

Please apply directly via the links below and I’ll know it is from here.

Android: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/4fa6b064-48fe-46fa-aab4-6fba243...

iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/6d283383-27ed-49f9-992c-11c287e...

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I’m the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role).

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
ONSITE - San Francisco, Toronto

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads.

Right now we are looking for:

* Experienced Android engineering managers

* Mid to Senior Android / iOS developers

Please note for our mobile engineering internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns for iOS or Android positions.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

Please apply directly via www.scribd.com/jobs

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I'm the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role). N.B. we are also hiring for a lot of other positions

joeconway··on Great product managers don’t spend their time on solutions
One of these pages seems to be quotes from this blog post http://chrisjohnsavage.com/2014/07/09/7000-reasons-to-read-t...
joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
ONSITE - San Francisco

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more.

Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads.

Right now we are looking for:

* Experienced Android engineering managers

* Mid to Senior Android / iOS developers

Please note for our mobile engineering internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns for iOS or Android positions.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

Please apply directly via http://grnh.se/ufkye81

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I'm the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role). N.B. we are also hiring for a lot of other positions

joeconway··on You can't Rust that
Thank you Armin. Your rust work for sentry has been a great primer in the language for me.
joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
ONSITE - San Francisco

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads.

Right now we are looking for:

* Experienced Android engineering managers

* Mid to Senior Android / iOS developers

Please note for our mobile engineering internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns for iOS or Android positions.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads. Please apply directly via http://grnh.se/ufkye81

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I'm the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role). NB, we are also hiring for a lot of other positions

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
ONSITE - San Francisco

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads.

Right now we are looking for:

* Experienced iOS / Android engineering managers

* Mid to Senior Android / iOS developers

Please note for our mobile engineering internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns for iOS or Android positions.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

Please apply directly via http://grnh.se/ufkye81

If you have questions you can reach me at joe at scribd.com (I'm the head of mobile engineering and happy to answer any question related to this role). NB, we are also hiring for a lot of other positions

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
Scribd is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

Right now we’re looking for:

* experienced iOS tech/team leads

* Mid to Senior Android developers

* Software engineers interested in working on search, recommendation, or payments

* Engineers with domain expertise in recommendation systems and algorithms

Please note for Internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" (http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6) and Sheet Music.

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Scribd is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

Right now we’re looking for:

- Experienced iOS tech/team leads

- Mid to Senior iOS developers

- Mid to Senior Android developers

- Software engineers interested in working on search, recommendation, or payments

- Engineers with domain expertise in recommendation systems and algorithms

Please note for Internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.

We are willing and able to sponsor Visas and have several international team members from around the world.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" (http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6) and Sheet Music.

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Scribd is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

Right now we’re looking for:

* experienced iOS tech/team leads

* Mid to Senior iOS developers

* Mid to Senior Android developers

* software engineers interested in working on search, recommendation, or payments

* QA Team Manager

* engineers with domain expertise in recommendation systems and algorithms

Please note for Internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.

We are willing and able to sponsor Visas and have several international team members from around the world.

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. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" (http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6) and Sheet Music.

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
Scribd is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

Right now we’re looking for:

* Mid to Senior iOS developers (especially with experience in tech/team leadership)

* Mid to Senior Android developers

* senior JavaScript engineers

* software engineers interested in working on search, recommendation, or payments

* QA Team Manager

* engineers with domain expertise in recommendation systems and algorithms

Please note for Internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.

We are willing and able to sponsor Visas and have several international team members from around the world.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" (http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6) and Sheet Music.

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* Mid to Senior iOS developers (especially with an interest in tech/team leadership)

* Mid to Senior Android developers

* senior JavaScript engineers

* Backend engineers with experience in search, recommendation, or payments

Please note for Internships: We have filled our internship seats and are not currently interviewing interns.

We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment that still lets our team get their work done. 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* Mid to senior level Ops or DevOps engineers

* A seasoned QA manager with experience leading teams through lifecycle testing on multiple platforms

* Growth hackers and growth product managers

* Ruby engineers

* Senior JavaScript engineers

* Backend engineers with experience in search, recommendation, or payments

* 2016 summer and fall interns

Please note for Internships: We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in January for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific 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. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment that still lets our team get their work done. 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
Thank you.
joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* mid to senior level Android devs (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team so there’s a lot of opportunity for impact and responsibility)

* Data scientists or engineers with experience in Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

a seasoned QA manager with experience leading teams through lifecycle testing on multiple platforms

Ruby engineers

*Backend engineers with experience in search, recommendation, or payments

Please note for Internships: We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in January for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific 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. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment that still lets our team get their work done. 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* mid to senior level Android devs (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team so there’s a lot of opportunity for impact and responsibility)

* Data scientists or engineers with experience in Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

Please note for Internships: We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in November for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific 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. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a jam room!) 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on GitLab is now used by Fortune 500 companies
That's great to hear! Specifically, the lack of syntax highlighting on merge reviews is a killer feature. My team actually temporarily moved over to Phabricator, specifically for this feature.

- Currently the only way for someone to indicate that a merge request is good to merge is by contacting them outside of Gitlab or doing the upvote on the MR, which fascinatingly is only possible by commenting with a :+1: thumbs up

- Also multiple assignees on MRs

- Ability for anyone to add labels to an MR, not just the assignee

- On the index page listing MR's I've often felt like a solid improvement would be to show both author and assignee. I think Gitlab has alternated between one or the other a few times on this page but both seem to me to be pertinent information.

joeconway··on GitLab is now used by Fortune 500 companies
Can we expect to see more focus on improving merge requests within Gitlab? I've felt as though for the longest time it's not had any of the major functionality gaps filled and seems to be deteriorating with each release. I'm wondering now if Gitlab doesn't see it very high on the list of priorities for the product

(Apologies if this comes across as overly negative, I use Gitlab all day every day and it's a great tool)

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired ten full-time people and dozens of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

Right now we’re looking for:

* mid to senior level Android devs (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team so there’s a lot of opportunity for impact and responsibility)

* Data scientists or engineers with experience in Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

Please note for Internships: We look for junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and fall. We aren’t currently accepting applications for summer 2016 but please check our job board in September for the job posting when we start the hiring process.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific 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. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a jam room!) 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired TEN full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team so there’s a lot of opportunity for impact and responsibility)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round and we’re currently looking for our first round of 2016 interns to start in the winter term.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific 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. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a jam room!) 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired TEN full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response. There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team so there’s a lot of opportunity for impact and responsibility)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round and we’re currently looking for our first round of 2016 interns to start in the winter term.

We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific 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. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way. http://grnh.se/gr84t3

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a jam room!) 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 herehttp://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog athttp://coding.scribd.com. We recently launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is available at http://grnh.se/gr84t3, but as a HN user, feel free to contact us directly with any and all questions by emailing { jacquie at scribd.com }.

joeconway··on The Art of Code Review: A Dropbox Story
Much more interesting in my opinion is the Square article also in this issue of objc.io http://www.objc.io/issue-22/square.html

I am surprised to not see that article on HN instead of this one.

joeconway··on Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?
QuickCast is great for recording and hosting tiny screencasts too
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