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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

587 points whoishiring | 7 comments | 01 May 18 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source | bottom

Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

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dstik ◴[01 May 18 16:08 UTC] No.16968324[source]▶
Tape | Los Angeles / Venice, CA | Multiple Positions | Full-time | Onsite only, relocation offered | $80k - $120k + equity + benefits

At Tape, we’re building a modern video collaboration tool for the enterprise to revolutionize communication in the workplace. We’re a fun, fast-paced, high quality engineering team. We spent time as senior engineers at Facebook and Amazon where, aside from building huge scalable systems, we thrived as mentors for many engineers. With that in mind we are looking for peers who are excited to take on product ownership and lead as well as younger engineers looking for an incredible learning environment.

We’re looking for skilled mobile and backend engineers (preferably people comfortable jumping across the stack). We offer unlimited paid vacation, fully covered health benefits, catered lunches, and more.

Our interview process is pretty straight forward:

1) 1 or 2 phone interviews - ~1 hour each

2) on site - ~6 hours (no whiteboard coding, just technical discussion and building something together)

3) offer

Our tech stack:

* iOS: Swift

* Android: Java and Kotlin

* Web: ReactJS

* Backend: NodeJS

* Infra: AWS

Contact me at dave (at) trytape (dot) com

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1. davidwihl ◴[01 May 18 16:16 UTC] No.16968412[source]▶
“Unlimited paid vacation?” Really? How do you prevent abuse?
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2. eloff ◴[01 May 18 16:25 UTC] No.16968527[source]▶
Like every other unlimited gimmick, it's a gimmick. Use too much and you'll find unlimited is very much subject to limits.
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3. base698 ◴[01 May 18 21:18 UTC] No.16971760[source]▶
Generally this is a way for companies to get out of paying your outstanding vacation you haven't taken when you quit or get laid off.
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4. RhodesianHunter ◴[02 May 18 01:50 UTC] No.16973457[source]▶
Not necessarily. I have worked for two companies now with unlimited vacation policies that pay out for two weeks when you leave regardless of what vacation you took.
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5. RhodesianHunter ◴[02 May 18 01:52 UTC] No.16973462[source]▶
That's the pessimistic view.

The optimistic view is that they encourage you to do what's most healthy for you and don't track your vacation days.

As with any other benefit, don't abuse it.

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6. dragonwriter ◴[02 May 18 18:20 UTC] No.16979748{3}[source]▶
It's still a way of getting out of paying for accrued vacation if they pay out two weeks at separation no matter how little vacation you took while working.
7. shakkhar ◴[07 May 18 20:17 UTC] No.17016138{3}[source]▶
Unlimited means "unlimited subject to manager approval". Try taking more than 2-3 weeks off and you will find the limits of unlimited PTO.