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xmpir

2,694 karma · joined July 4, 2012

VP Engineering at XING Former co-founder at Prescreen (prescreen.io) (sold to XING) located in Vienna (Austria)
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xmpir··on The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management
Same as for human software engineers... We'll see Conway' law all again with agentic coding!
xmpir··on Google Career Dreamer
Here some more context: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/googles-career-dreamer-use...
xmpir··on General management, functional, and hybrid models: Which org design works best?
I would be super interested in reading the HN crowd wisdom on this topic. It's super hard to know from the outside how organisations are structured & run. Any insights are appreciated.
xmpir··on Show HN: Fynk AI Contract Analysis
Impressive product, contracts is one of the areas I see LLMs disrupting a lot of clerk work. Curious to try this product. Also happy to see a startup from Vienna!
xmpir··on Second large Hetzner outage in a week caused by DDoS attack
They state using hardware DDoS protection but it seems not to be sufficient: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz
xmpir··on Second large Hetzner outage in a week caused by DDoS attack
I am wondering what the attacker's intent is
xmpir··on Second large Hetzner outage in a week caused by DDoS attack
I fear e.g. wireguard is affected.
xmpir··on Second large Hetzner outage in a week caused by DDoS attack
Last time it took about 9 hours: https://status.hetzner.com/incident/129728ce-ba25-49b6-96cc-...
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | Engineering Managers, DevOps & Backend & Frontend & QA Engineers| ONSITE (WFH during COVID and 50% homeoffice allowance after that) | Full Time Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation ...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://career.prescreen.io/en/
xmpir··on Facebook-owned sites were down
Just thinking about all the conspiracy theories you could make of this. Yesterday pandora papers, today the internet stops working.
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | DevOps & Frontend & QA Engineers| ONSITE (WFH during COVID and 50% homeoffice allowance after that) | Full Time Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation ...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://career.prescreen.io/en/
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | DevOps & Frontend & QA Engineers| ONSITE (WFH during COVID and 50% homeoffice allowance after that) | Full Time

Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation ...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://career.prescreen.io/en/

xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | DevOps & Frontend & QA Engineers| ONSITE (WFH during COVID and 50% homeoffice allowance after that) | Full Time Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation ...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://career.prescreen.io/en/
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | Backend & Frontend & QA Engineers| ONSITE (WFH during COVID and at least 49% homeoffice allowance after that) | Full Time Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation ...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://career.prescreen.io/en/
xmpir··on Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser
I wonder if adding spatial audio would improve detection
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | QA Engineer| ONSITE (but WFH during COVID and 50% homeoffice allowance after that) | Full Time

Join us as our second QA Engineer! Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation, all kinds of benefits...)

Please apply using our online application process: https://prescreen.io/en/careers/job/?sh=ewva5eq1

xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | Backend & QA Engineers| ONSITE | Full Time Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation, all kinds of benefits...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://prescreen.io/en/careers/
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | DevOps/BE/QA Engineers & Product Managers | ONSITE | Full Time Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation, all kinds of benefits...) All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://prescreen.io/en/careers/
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
Prescreen | Vienna, Austria | DevOps/BE/QA Engineers & Product Managers | ONSITE | Full Time

Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation, all kinds of benefits...)

All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://prescreen.io/en/careers/

xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Prescreen | DevOps/BE/QA Engineers & Product Managers & UI/UX Designers | Vienna, Austria | ONSITE | Full Time

Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small but highly effective team delivering value to our users fast and in high quality. Working here still feels like in a startup but we do have some of the benefits of being a post-exit company (financial stability, 30 days of yearly paid vacation, all kinds of benefits...)

All our positions are listed on our homepage: https://prescreen.io/en/careers/

xmpir··on Ask HN: Where is the who is hiring thread for March 2020?
Thank you - did not know that. Will adjust my Slack reminder then.
xmpir··on Building a Relational Database Using Kafka
Why would I want a relational database living in Kafka? MySQL or Postgres are great at what they do.
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
Prescreen | FE/BE/QA Engineers | Vienna, Austria | ONSITE | Full Time

Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small team of developers delivering amazing features to our users. If you want to have high impact as in a startup but also the benefits (e.g. 6 weeks of vacation) of being part of a large cooperation (Xing) apply here:

QA Engineer: https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/qbqstjyf

Frontend Engineer (vue.js): https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/24ym8i3g

Backend Engineer (PHP): https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/0o8na0d9

xmpir··on Tesla Shakes Up Model 3 Lineup
So I guess jailbreaking Teslas will become a thing at some point in the future. If all the limits are software only people will find ways to use the car they own in the way they want...
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
Prescreen | FE/BE/QA Engineers | Vienna, Austria | ONSITE | Full Time

Prescreen is one of Europe’s fastest growing HR tech startups. We are a small team of developers delivering amazing features to our users. If you want to have high impact as in a startup but also the benefits (e.g. 6 weeks of vacation) of being part of a large cooperation (Xing) apply here:

QA Engineer: https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/qbqstjyf

Frontend Engineer (vue.js): https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/24ym8i3g

Backend Engineer (PHP): https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/0o8na0d9

xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Prescreen | DevOps Engineer | Vienna | Onsite | Full-time https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/271slv3w

Prescreen is building recruiting software for the future. We got acquired by Xing last year and are increasing engineering, product and sales teams in Vienna.

For jobs other than DevOps see: https://prescreen.io/en/careers/

xmpir··on GoPro lays off 270
there is a layoff but the link here is wrong: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gopro-redundancies/gopro-...
xmpir··on GoPro lays off 270
this article is fro MAR 15, 2017
xmpir··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
Prescreen - https://prescreen.io | Vienna (Austria) | ONSITE | Full-time

We are building the future of e-recruiting and were recently acquired by the leading professional network in the German speaking area - XING. Currently we are looking for frontend (ES6) and backend (PHP) developers. Product, marketing and sales positions are also vacant. See all openings at https://prescreen.io/en/careers

xmpir··on Tencent takes a 10% stake in Snapchat parent Snap
the timinig is interesting. the stock price was down >15% after yesterdays earnings call, now it's in the green again.
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