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rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
Hi RSchaeffer,

Co-ops and internships are designed to be full-time for the duration for the co-op/internship.

Regarding Solutions Engineering internships, we may do those in the future, but are not currently hiring interns right now.

rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
Facebook | Solutions Engineer | Menlo Park, NYC, Seattle, London, Dublin, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong | Onsite

Solutions Engineers at Facebook spend roughly half their time working with product engineering teams and writing production code. The other half of their time is spent working directly with partners to develop and execute their Facebook technology strategy.

We find that this setup is great for engineers that want to spend more time on the business side of things or have more people interaction while still being hands on with code.

This allows large advertisers to work directly with people at Facebook that have a knowledge of the ads codebase, and Solutions Engineers can implement great suggestions made by partners.

More about the role is available at https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/solutions-engineering-... .

Menlo Park - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LT5zLEAT/

New York - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LT5SwEAL/

Seattle - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LT4waEAD/

London - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LSshZEAT/

Dublin - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXhMxEAL/

Dublin, fluent in Russian - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LSfiGEAT/

Dublin, fluent in Spanish - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LSfiVEAT/

Dubai - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXrk1EAD/

Tel Aviv, fluent in Hebrew - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXYo7EAH/

Seoul, fluent in Korean - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JYDDREA5/

Tokyo, fluent in Japanese - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LSsTmEAL/

Hong Kong, fluent in Mandarin Chinese - https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LSw9CEAT/

Facebook | Solutions Engineering Manager | Berlin | Onsite

We also have a great opportunity for an engineering manager that would like to support a team in Berlin. You would support a distributed team, so some travel would be required. Roughly half the time would be spent on people management, with the other half on Solutions Engineering work. We are looking for someone fluent in German. We will consider a very experienced tech lead that would like to make the transition into people management.

https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXhMnEAL/

If you would like to apply or have any questions, feel free to send me an email at rcheng@fb.com .

rhc2104··on With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
It seems like Imgur was profitable from Day 1, but the early days were profitable through donations!

https://www.neowin.net/news/from-rags-to-riches-the-story-of...

Quote: "Imgur has always been profitable right from the very beginning and the only time I ever had to spend money on it was for the initial domain name because as soon as I released it, people liked it so much that they were donating and so Imgur survived for the first six months just purely on donations."

rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Facebook | Solutions Engineer | Menlo Park, NYC, Paris, Dublin, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong | Onsite

Solutions Engineers at Facebook spend roughly half their time working with product engineering teams and writing production code. The other half of their time is spent working directly with partners to develop and execute their Facebook technology strategy.

We find that this setup is great for engineers that want to spend more time on the business side of things or have more people interaction while still being hands on with code.

This allows large advertisers to work directly with people at Facebook that have a knowledge of the ads codebase, and Solutions Engineers can implement great suggestions made by partners.

More about the role is available at https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/solutions-engineering-... .

Facebook | Solutions Engineering Manager | Berlin | Onsite

We also have a great opportunity for an engineering manager that would like to support a team in Berlin. You would support a distributed team, so some travel would be required. Roughly half the time would be spent on people management, with the other half on Solutions Engineering work.

We are looking for someone fluent in German.

We will consider a very experienced tech lead that would like to make the transition into people management.

If you would like to apply or have any questions, feel free to send me an email at rcheng@fb.com .

You can find the job listings at https://www.facebook.com/careers/teams/engineering/ , under “Solutions Engineering”.

rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
Facebook | Solutions Engineer | Menlo Park, NYC, Paris, Dublin, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Seoul | Onsite

Solutions Engineers at Facebook spend roughly half their time working with product engineering teams and writing production code. The other half of their time is spent working directly with partners to develop and execute their Facebook technology strategy.

We find that this setup is great for engineers that want to spend more time on the business side of things or have more people interaction while still being hands on with code.

This allows large advertisers to work directly with people at Facebook that have a knowledge of the ads codebase, and Solutions Engineers can implement great suggestions made by partners.

More about the role is available at https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/solutions-engineering-... .

Facebook | Solutions Engineering Manager | Berlin | Onsite

We also have a great opportunity for an engineering manager that would like to support a team in Berlin. You would support a distributed team, so some travel would be required. Roughly half the time would be spent on people management, with the other half on Solutions Engineering work.

We are looking for someone fluent in German.

We will consider a very experienced tech lead that would like to make the transition into people management.

If you would like to apply or have any questions, feel free to send me an email at rcheng@fb.com .

You can find the job listings at https://www.facebook.com/careers/teams/engineering/ , under “Solutions Engineering”.

rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
Facebook | Solutions Engineer | Menlo Park, NYC, Paris, Dublin, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Austin, Seoul | Onsite

Solutions Engineers at Facebook spend roughly half their time working with product engineering teams and writing production code. The other half of their time is spent working directly with partners to develop and execute their Facebook technology strategy.

We find that this setup is great for engineers that want to spend more time on the business side of things or have more people interaction while still being hands on with code.

This allows large advertisers to work directly with people at Facebook that have a knowledge of the ads codebase, and Solutions Engineers can implement great suggestions made by partners.

More about the role is available at https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/solutions-engineering-... .

Facebook | Solutions Engineering Manager | Menlo Park, Berlin | Onsite

We also have some great opportunities for engineering managers that would like to support a team in Menlo Park or Berlin. You would support a distributed team, so some travel would be required. Roughly half the time would be spent on people management, with the other half on Solutions Engineering work.

We will consider very experienced tech leads that would like to make the transition into people management.

For the position in Berlin, we are looking for people fluent in German.

If you would like to apply or have any questions, feel free to send me an email at rcheng@fb.com .

You can find the job listings at https://www.facebook.com/careers/teams/engineering/ , under “Solutions Engineering”.

rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Facebook | Solutions Engineer | Menlo Park, NYC, Seattle, Paris, Dublin, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Austin, Hong Kong | Onsite

Solutions Engineers at Facebook spend roughly half their time working with product engineering teams and writing production code. The other half of their time is spent working directly with partners to develop and execute their Facebook technology strategy.

We find that this setup is great for engineers that want to spend more time on the business side of things or have more people interaction while still being hands on with code.

This allows large advertisers to work directly with people at Facebook that have a knowledge of the ads codebase, and Solutions Engineers can implement great suggestions made by partners.

More about the role is available at https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/solutions-engineering-... .

Facebook | Solutions Engineering Manager | Menlo Park, NYC, Berlin | Onsite

We also have some great opportunities for engineering managers that would like to support a team in Menlo Park, NYC, or Berlin. You would support a distributed team, so some travel would be required.

If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email at rcheng@fb.com .

You can find the job listings at https://www.facebook.com/careers/teams/engineering/ , under “Solutions Engineering”.

rhc2104··on Established education providers v new contenders
To be fair, the curriculum of Udacity is available for free. The nanodegree cost is supposed to be for assignment grading and mentorship.
rhc2104··on Salary transparency at Stack Overflow
To be fair, Stack Exchange hires remotely. The "software majors" do not. (That said, if I wanted to work in Oklahoma and get a remote software engineering job, this lets me know I could probably get more at a place like GitHub)
rhc2104··on Investor Day
lpolovets - shouldn't the follow up one-on-one meetings be only 40 minutes?
rhc2104··on PostgreSQL Exercises
Your site looks great! I built https://www.sqlteaching.com , so feel free to use that design if you want a setup that has both the schema and expected output. I made the design tradeoff of using really small datasets.
rhc2104··on How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
In the "traditional" method of selecting a manager, most engineers don't get selected either. However, the process is less transparent that way.

I'm saying this as a candidate that didn't get selected. I got great actionable feedback on how to be a better leader, and I'll keep my fingers crossed when there is another opportunity available.

rhc2104··on How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
Actually, I planned on writing a blog post on this at some point. I work at Hired, and we had an interview process to determine who (internally) would become the next manager. This involved three interviews with engineers, and a presentation with management.
rhc2104··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
Hired | San Francisco, CA | full-time | onsite

At Hired ( https://hired.com/ ), we are bringing transparency to the recruiting process by having companies apply to you, with a preliminary compensation package stated upfront. We have placed thousands of people into great companies such as Uber, GitHub, and Facebook, and there is a ton of high impact work to improve the experience. For example, in the last quarter, I was part of a team of 3 that launched Hired in French ( https://fr.hired.com/?set_locale=fr-FR ), and created a search ranking A/B test that led to a 20% lift in interview requests.

Hired is around 200 people in total, including 5 designers and 30 engineers.

We have roles in product engineering (we’re a Ruby on Rails shop), data infrastructure, data science, and search engineering.

Some of the other posts have salary ranges, and I think that’s a great way to bring transparency into the process.

However, since we are Hired, we will go one step further.

If you’d like to apply and we are interested in moving forward with a phone screen, we are willing to first state a preliminary compensation package.

Our jobs page is available at https://hired.com/careers, and if you’re interested, feel free to email me at ronnie@hired.com .

rhc2104··on Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups
If you were moving to the US and were worried about cost of living, Seattle would be a great option. You'd probably spend 2k on an apartment there, making the math much more enticing to move.
rhc2104··on At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich
It sounds like the employees don't actually get the shares until a liquidity event. (This is how RSUs work at startups.)
rhc2104··on Apply HN: Hairme – Programmable Haircuts for Men
Other commenters have mentioned safety, but if you can execute safety really well, this could work for toddlers, since they can stay still during a haircut.
rhc2104··on Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers
As a counterexample, Google didn't show ads until 2000. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-self...
rhc2104··on Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation Than Silicon Valley Is
Peter Thiel was their lead angel investor, and Accel led their Series A funding. Both are Silicon Valley investors.
rhc2104··on Hire Literally Anyone
So here's an idea for a program:

An apprentice goes to a coding bootcamp, paid for by an company with a $2,500/month stipend. Then, the apprentice would work for the company for $2,500/month for one year, or otherwise the coding bootcamp tuition must be repaid.

This would work out to a cost of about $55,000 for a year of labor.

That would be significantly cheaper than hiring a coding bootcamp grad, and removes the economic risk from the apprentice. What if the market were to soften? What if they ended up being one of the graduates that could not land a job?

This offloads a lot of training to the bootcamp, which have job training as their core competency. Other commenters have pointed out flaws with the system proposed by the author.

In addition, it generally aligns incentives so that the apprentice is less likely to leave right after the initial training. As part of the deal, the coding bootcamp would help the apprentice with finding some other job, since they have already committed to an employer. If they did renege on that part of the deal, the employer only lost out on $7,500. And once the apprentice proves their worth (in the event that they do), the employer could offer a market salary that would start after the apprenticeship, along with a signing bonus of about $20,000 or so. The apprentice would probably want that signing bonus immediately, and sign that offer unless the candidate disliked the company.

If anyone wants to kickstart this concept, I think this would make a great nonprofit. Figuring how to implement such a program would be a distraction for the company, especially if they just wanted to dip their toes in the water with one apprentice at first. The nonprofit would get $10,000 per apprentice, and additional donations by companies could lead to higher priority in selecting potential apprentices.

rhc2104··on Nanodegree Plus: Get hired within six months of graduating, or tuition refund
That makes sense for a full-time in-person school that costs a lot of money.

But Udacity's part-time remote program is $299 a month, https://www.udacity.com/nanodegrees/nd009 so charging by percentages is less worthwhile.

rhc2104··on Google paid $380M to buy Bebop, Diane Greene donating her $148M share
Not really, because you get none of the money back.

However, you can take the charitable tax deduction this year, instead of future years when you plan on giving money to charity. Also, the capital gains/dividends/interest that the DAF earns isn't taxed, so if you plan on giving to charities in the future, this is one way of increasing that amount.

rhc2104··on Bay Area Regional Planner: The Board Game
"You can't upzone any squares in Marin." heh
rhc2104··on Ask HN: Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?
But this person wants to leave, and presumably he/she only has 90 days after leaving to exercise.
rhc2104··on Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
Have you heard of www.browserstack.com ? Easy way to test different platforms without VMs.
rhc2104··on Elon Musk: Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate the World's Exit from Fossil Fuels
People/companies that use more fossil fuels.
rhc2104··on What Zillow doesn't want you to know about its listing gap
Redfin is pretty different from Zillow, since they directly sell homes. So they will have better/faster listings directly from the MLS.

But they only have listings for the regions where they sell homes, so they have nothing for most of the United States.

rhc2104··on Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648
Yale does have a comparable program.

http://admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid

Families don't have to pay if they make less than 65k.

Stanford's program is similar. Their 125k threshold is for not paying tuition, but a family making 125k is expected to pay for room and board.

rhc2104··on SQLite compiled into JavaScript via Emscripten
Sql.js is awesome. It powers sqlteaching.com (on the client side), and the whole site took about 50 hours of work between my wife and I. Most of that time was on the curriculum.
rhc2104··on Microsoft Expands Its Parental Leave, Bolsters Paid Time Off And 401k Matching
Actually, employer contributions do not count towards the $18k maximum per year in contributions. This is the specific advantage of having a 401k match in the first place, as it allows employees to have more tax deferred savings than otherwise possible.

Source: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/retirement/employer-match-co... (Technically, with employer match, it can go up to $53k)

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