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Tools engineer @ Tapjoy
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Comment · 11 years ago
Tapjoy | Full Stack Engineer, SDK Engineer, Data Science | Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA; Atlanta, GA | Onsite
Tapjoy is growing our engineering and data science teams - we are an mobile app technology company focused on monetizing free-to-play games. Where in the past we have focused on advertising, we recently launched a lifetime value maximization platform to help freemium app publishers maximize their ROI and engage their users more effectively.
We use ruby extensively, but also have services using Go and Scala, and are generally looking for the right technology to solve a problem rather than dogmatically insisting on one stack. We have a fairly strong focus on engineering as a discipline, but are small enough as an engineering team to still enable one voice to make a large impact. Communication has become a strong point of our team by necessity as we have engineers in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Boston, and have a global team, with offices all over the world.
You can see our openings here: http://home.tapjoy.com/info/about-tapjoy/careers/
If you're interested I strongly recommend you reach out to me directly: jason.carr at tapjoy dot com
Comment · 11 years ago
And then again, after looking, some are clearly not.
Comment · 11 years ago
A lot of these are redacted and appear to be FOIA or similar requests that have been fulfilled.
Comment · 11 years ago
Tapjoy | Full Stack Engineer, SDK Engineer, Data Science | Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA; Atlanta, GA | Onsite
Tapjoy is growing our engineering and data science teams - we are an mobile app technology company focused on monetizing free-to-play games. Where in the past we have focused on advertising, we recently launched a lifetime value maximization platform to help freemium app publishers maximize their ROI and engage their users more effectively.
We use ruby extensively, but also have services using Go and Scala, and are generally looking for the right technology to solve a problem rather than dogmatically insisting on one stack. We have a fairly strong focus on engineering as a discipline, but are small enough as an engineering team to still enable one voice to make a large impact. Communication has become a strong point of our team by necessity as we have engineers in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Boston, and have a global team, with offices all over the world.
You can see our openings here: http://home.tapjoy.com/info/about-tapjoy/careers/
If you're interested I strongly recommend you reach out to me directly: jason.carr at tapjoy dot com
Comment · 11 years ago
Tapjoy | Full Stack Engineer, SDK Engineer, Data Science | Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA; Atlanta, GA | Onsite
Tapjoy is growing our engineering and data science teams - we are an mobile app technology company focused on monetizing free-to-play games. Where in the past we have focused on advertising, we recently launched a lifetime value maximization platform to help freemium app publishers maximize their ROI and engage their users more effectively.
We use ruby extensively, but also have services using Go and Scala, and are generally looking for the right technology to solve a problem rather than dogmatically insisting on one stack. We have a fairly strong focus on engineering as a discipline, but are small enough as an engineering team to still enable one voice to make a large impact. Communication has become a strong point of our team by necessity as we have engineers in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Boston, and have a global team, with offices all over the world.
You can see our openings here: http://home.tapjoy.com/info/about-tapjoy/careers/
If you're interested I strongly recommend you reach out to me directly: jason.carr at tapjoy dot com
Comment · 11 years ago
Did you look at the link? It's not NYC landlords; it's a list that's scraped from court proceedings and sold to tenant screening companies.
Comment · 11 years ago
Quick explanation:
Fines are the very small coffee particles created by the grinding or crushing of the bean. They are generally undesirable as for even extraction of the coffee you want uniformly sized coffee particles. Fines also tend to end up in your cup and can make the brew gritty.
Extractions can mean a few things but in a nutshell, it's the amount of flavor compounds in the bean that end up in your brew. If you say '20%' extracted you mean that 20% of the weight of the coffee ended up taken out by the brewing process (I believe you brew then dry the grounds and weigh before/after).
Slight differences could be the difference between bold flavor and over-brewed bitterness. Also different coffees will want different extraction amounts depending on their flavor profile and such; as a general rule most people use too little coffee and overextract it, thus getting all the bitter compounds from the coffee and thinking it tastes bad.
Comment · 11 years ago
FWIW, you can calibrate it to produce over 2x the amount on a 'shot'.
Comment · 11 years ago
I agree with this and your other comment and would add that the distortion of the market caused by medallions is exactly why the market is crashing as hard as it is, and also why Uber and Lyft are so popular - there's pent up demand for transportation via on demand cars that isn't able to be met under the taxi medallion system. Not just demand for more transportation but more cost effective and available transportation as well.
Comment · 11 years ago
I actually work in SF now at a very family friendly company (Tapjoy). That is probably because 1/2 the engineering team is located in Boston.
Comment · 11 years ago
I took PTO for it. It's not like I walked out for no reason. Also, we were working 60+ hour weeks.
Comment · 11 years ago
Dental hygenists also only work 3-4 days a week. I'm told this is just the way the job works (usually they are 3 days at one office and 1 day at another if they desire). There's also the wear and tear on your body from crouching over someone with vibrating tools.