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Quil Health | Senior Web (React), SRE, QA, iOS, Android, Product, UX | NYC, Philadelphia, REMOTE | Full-time

Quil, a digital health company, delivers actionable and personalized health itineraries for patients and caregivers, answering the question “What Happens Next?” in their healthcare journeys. We combine the powers of precision data, state-of-the-art technology, and security with unparalleled consumer reach to help individuals navigate today’s chaotic healthcare landscape.

Quil is a digital health joint venture between Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence Blue Cross. Headquartered in Philadelphia, PA with an additional office in New York City, Quil serves individuals, healthcare providers and payors nationally.

I'm Tyler, the Director of Engineering for Web, so one of these roles reports to me, but I am more than happy to have a chat with anyone interested in any of the roles.

tkremberg [at] quilhealth [dot] com or https://quilhealth.com/careers/

I walk into the office of the VP of Business Development, interviewing for a role to lead their ecommerce team. And I sit down and notice a fidget spinner, a couple of fidget cubes and a scrambled Rubik's cube on his desk. As we are sitting down I casually ask if he's into puzzles, he says no, he spends a lot of time of the phone and is always looking to do something with his hands.

Anyway, 10 minutes later, his cell phone rings, presumably a family member, as he looks concerned and very politely asks if he can step out to take it, in case its an emergency. I say, "of course" and I'm just sitting there with nothing to do but stare at the wall.

I didn't want to take out my phone, so I grab the cube and start solving it.

He steps back into the office thanking me just as I'm putting his solved cube back on his desk.

Not the main reason, but I did get offered the job.

Really interesting problem. I'd love to chat more. But there's no open postitions on your breezyhr link.

In my experience, it's more important to educate non-technical colleagues about your product and software development processes. Understanding pull requests or redis don't matter as much, and can be picked up along the way.

I've gifted The Mythical Man Month (Brooks) and Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Cagan) to colleagues and have received great feedback.

Personally, I had never used the term attribution model until I worked at an ecommerce company and didn't have a good reason to understand the details of churn until working with a SAAS business. Any reasonably smart person can pick up these domain specific understandings as they go.

That's really weird, thanks for helping to debug.

HireWhen | Remote, mostly EST | Part or Full-time

Data Scientists, Full Stack Engineers, People Who Love JS

HireWhen is a job hiring platform for people not looking for jobs. We act as a firewall for recruiter spam and build an intelligent profile based on periodic feedback.

It's the job board for people not looking for a job.

You love making cool interfaces or have experience with building interesting data matching profiles. We're bootstrapped and have clients.

Team is 100% remote, so you can

Interview Process (within 2 weeks) 1. 30 min phone conversation with Head of Engineering (me) 2. 60 min pairing with someone on our team. 3. 60 min conversation to discuss your role and growth potential on the team. 4. Offer, paid one-off project (if interested in part-time work) or clear feedback.

Tell us what you love to build: hello@hirewhen.com

If you are an engineer introvert like myself that is hesitant to post your info here, I run a anonymous, private job matching service for people not looking for jobs: hirewhen.com

hello@hirewhen.com with the same info you'd post here. Or just say hi.

Really? That's bizarre. Sorry about that.

Cool idea. I think it be beneficial to be able to see what it does without having to watch the video.

Like a "Turn This" => "Into This" with a simple pre-render example ad. It's ultimately a visual medium, and there's more of an "aha" moment when I can quickly see "oh wow, it generated a twitter card, instagram square and adwords vertical rectangle" on first view.

There are a lot of red flags in your description. This doesn't sound like an ideal first development job for a few reasons. Most importantly, focus on finding a position where you can learn more software engineering practices from great mentors.

Questions to ask yourself: What are your personal career goals? How would taking this job serve them?

Maybe a dumb (american) question, but in the UK, what is the average / minimum length of these day rate contracts?

One book that I found to be amazingly helpful about engineering leadership / management is http://leadingsnowflakes.com/

I've never used it, but I know that https://www.livecoding.tv/ is a thing.

I've actually searched for this exact service before. I'd love for the landing page .o have a little more information about how the ftp credentials would work. (your domain, multiple accounts? read only?) And also pricing. Similarly, I pay for https://dbinbox.com/ to solve a similar, parallel problem.

I'll just play devils advocate here. As a consumer, I really like buying from the Mac App store solely for the user experience of, when I eventually new a new Macbook Pro, I can easily sync all of my purchases, rather than having to retrieve the licenses and go download the latest version of each piece of software I've purchased. As a developer, I've heard countless horror stories and totally understand.

I always found this funny: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

I mostly solved this problem by taking 2 minutes and writing a thoughtful response to remind them that I am an actual human.

"Thanks, COMPANY_NAME sounds interesting, but I'm not looking to make a move. I really enjoy working with my fantastic team solving challenging problems in my current position. It would take an unbelievable improvement in [salary, schedule, problem space] to make me consider a move. Let's stay in touch on LinkedIn and feel free to reach out in N months or if any amazing opportunities that meet those criteria come across your desk. Thanks!"

Personally, I have found that not all, but many recruiters will reply with a LinkedIn request and an "I'd love to get to know more about what you are looking for, or will follow up in N months."

Chrome with a lot of extensions (Notably: Always Clear Downloads, AlienTube for Youtube, Fireshot, Edit this Cookie, Ghostery, Google Analytics Debugger, PageSpeed Insights, Postman REST Debugger, Rapportive, uBlock). But I occasionally find myself using I use Safari for a simple, clean browsing experience.

I have been there, and it's hard to see a way out of what is making you miserable, or alternatively preventing you from being happy. Is it the work? Is it something in your personal life? Personally, I have found that I've fought against what I felt like I SHOULD be doing. I should be a hero and finish some big project. I should work towards being promoted.

Try and evaluate what you actually want, how do you FEEL? I don't know anything more about your situation, but why do you feel like you have to commute so far? Why do you feel like you need to stay in your job?

What would you rather do? Most importantly, talk to someone and ask for help. Talk with a family member, a friend, your boss. It's not in their best interest for you to burn out and rage quit. They want to help you succeed.

Don't hesitate to reach out via email if you want to chat. I've been there and maybe can help.

But take this as an opportunity to evaluate what is making you unhappy and what makes you happy.

All the best!

I've had great experiences with Nancy Soni and her team at FILD http://www.fildit.com/

She was incredibly helpful on both a personal and professional level. She reached out, and up an interview at a top Ecommerce company in NYC.

The company wasn't a great match for what I was looking for at the time (earlier stage, smaller team, building the groundwork) and she introduced me to an (at the time) much smaller company that I had never heard of.

But it was a great fit, and I loved the job for 2.5 years and used her to help grow that team.

She was probably the first person to convince me that not all recruiters are terrible.

This is great. I've posted about this before, but my biggest pet peeve with /jobs is a lack of location in the title. Presently there are 18 jobs posted there, only 1 (GoCardless - London) mentions a location in the title.

I live in NY and the difference in an office in Brooklyn / Midtown would be the difference in me applying to the job. I imagine East Bay vs. Palo Alto is a similar story.

My team built a spin off project to create an office directory / floor plan for your small business / co-working space. http://www.floorplan.io/

Tech-stack wise it's not all that interesting, but we've seen it help a lot of small companies on-board people / meet their coworkers more easily, so that's been fun.

Yes, but they seem to focus on customer research and qualifying leads, not actually closing.

The analogy would be hiring a product manager / tech lead to help define your MVP requirements, identify necessary integrations and help choose a software development platform, but not actually writing any code.

I'm looking for a way to find a commissions salesperson. Maybe I'm looking for http://timetohire.com ?

P.S. Huge fan of wefunder

I am looking for the inverse of this. I will pay $5000 for a salesperson to find my first 10 paying customers. If the development cycle can be shrunk to 2 weeks, can the sales cycle?

Edit: I am serious. Please message me if you have any leads.

I'd be interested to see the stats on valuations of companies that applied to YC but were rejected.

Interesting. There have been rumblings within the Magento community for some time regarding the huge delays of Magento2 and general changes in the company since it was acquired by Ebay. Good time to be BigCommerce or Shopify.

This, exactly this!

I'm the Director of Engineering at an e-commerce startup in an industry I know very little about (BaubleBar, fashion jewelry), and our challenges are in a much different realm than a product based startup, and I would say that we attract a different kind of developer.

As far as the business goes, operations and marketing need to scale much faster than our technology. Acquiring customers and efficiently supporting them (building and supporting tools for improved reporting, logistics, order fulfillment) are definitely more important to company growth than building a recommendation engine.

Our work varies a lot more and we get the support a huge variety of different types of projects. We support marketing, creative, customer service, operations and are constantly integrating with a new advertising network, analytics platform or shipping API.

I think engineers want to work on things that are impactful in measurable ways. Some want nerd cred, or really hard technology problems, my team builds cool stuff supporting a (more traditional) business that's growing crazy fast. And for us, that's exciting.

P.S. We're also hiring in NY.

I think we are in agreement. I am interpreting OPs problem as "I love developing code but my projects don't go anywhere." My answer is to switch from writing code to solving the trouble problem, which is "how to find customers for my project."

Also, I've worked for many companies that had shitty code but lots of revenue.

I struggle with the same issue. I've shifted my thinking quite a bit and now think of it as just solving a different problem.

Say my goal is to write code 6 hours a day with headphones on. In order to do that, I need people to pay me to use what I'm building.

So the problem to solve has become "how to get people to pay for my service/product."

Projects die all of the time because of bad market fit. Less likely do they die because they were built poorly.