mrbird
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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE | VISA
Course Hero is growing fast and looking to fill lots of roles, especially technical leaders. Come help us change the way people learn!
Comment · 10 years ago
As a manager, when an employee comes to you with another offer, you (or the company) have already failed in some way.
This situation is not a root problem, it's a symptom.
Comment · 10 years ago
Contrary to what many people think, few of us have managers who can consistently and successfully lay out the optimal career path and help us achieve it. I'd say there are three main reasons:
1. It's really hard to do.
2. Few people have themselves been trained on management.
3. Faced with 1 and 2, people focus on their own, more familiar personal deliverables.
Therefore, if you want things to change, you'll probably have to make some specific suggestions. And to do that, you should do some homework. I highly recommend starting with Managing Humans by Michael Lopp (http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi...) or maybe The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/00...). Spend an hour or two with each book and you'll have a better idea what can be done, and why.
What you're finding is that working as both a full-time manager and full-time engineer is very difficult, borderline impossible. Eventually, you'll have to choose. An increasing number of small companies are starting to understand this reality, and allow their top people to grow into either technical leadership or management leadership roles. Expecting both, simultaneously, is not realistic.
Comment · 10 years ago
Course Hero - Redwood City, CA - ONSITE
Help us build education technology products to help students and teachers learn better!
Engineering, Design, Product, Support, Community Management
Comment · 10 years ago
To this, I would also add: Local events (things to do) sites.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/15/the-curse-of-the-network-ef...
Course Hero is changing education by building a global community of students, the largest digital library of study materials, and innovative machine learning technology to support both learning and teaching.
We are a top-250 traffic site that practices continuous deployment.
Our engineering teams release code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for people who can embrace challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Our projects are big - many terabytes of data and millions of users around the world - but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish and work closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.
We're hiring for many roles:
* Staff Engineer, Front-end (React, MVC, etc.)
* Senior Engineer, Search (Elasticsearch, ML, etc.)
* Senior Engineer, Back-end (PHP, Symfony, Microservices, etc.)
* Senior Machine Learning Engineer (TensorFlow, etc.)
* Principal Data Engineer
And many more!
https://www.coursehero.com/about-us/ https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/
Email: jobs (at) coursehero (dot) com (put HN in the subject)