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Dropbox is hiring a Web Engineer
- allend 16y agoThis is news?
- emmett 16y agoIt is if you want a job at a startup. Which many people on HN definitely do.
- daleharvey 16y agothis is a message board created by the ycombinator founder, its audience is pretty much made entirely of people who would like this job. there is an entire section dedicated to jobs at yc companies, it is not off topic
- logic 16y agoFunny, I'd actually have expected it to be an audience full of people who'd like to create this job. :)
- daleharvey 16y agoheh true, but I dont think those groups are mutually exclusive either.
- c1sc0 16y agoOr rather, postpone creating this job as long as they can ;-)
- sushi 16y agoWell since the response on the "Who's hiring" threads lately has been pretty good I think we can consider it a news. Anyhow, there is one spelling mistake on the second line under "Nice-to-Have's." IT should be proficient and not Profiient. Not a big deal really but might turn away some language nazis.
- igorgue 16y agoMany things here are not news, but some interesting startups things (Dropbox is an interesting startup, a YCombinator one), also, comment "This is news?" on all the "ASK YC" threads :-)
- dpritchett 16y agoThe abiltity to comment on a "YC Company is Hiring!" thread here on HN is news of a sort. I'm a very happy user of Dropbox's free products and I'm glad to hear they're growing.
- mkeblx 16y agoYes, yes it is. It is similar to Apple looking for Antennae Engineers. It must be a sign that Dropbox is having issues with their web operations, and they are about to issue an open letter to their users.
- jperras 16y agoHN is, in part, one giant job board.
- magic5227 16y agoJust FYI, the older Box is hiring 9+ engineers https://www.box.net/jobs https://www.box.net/jobs
- zww 16y agoolder, bigger company, and less successful? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/box.net+dropbox.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/box.net+dropbox.com/ no thanks.
- magic5227 16y agoIf only compete showed monthly revenue... perhaps that might be a better indicator of success, no? btw my post isnt trying to suggest either company is > than another, lets not get into that.
- axod 16y agocompete is CRAZY. Check their quantcast figures and you see a drastically different picture, with box.net way ahead. But in any event, page views probably are a very bad measure of these sorts of companies.
- chacha102 16y agoSo, I've worked out the Javascript problem several times in my head. Could it be because num is in a difference context when it is being called by setTimeout()? I just can't figure it out, and it is bugging me. (Guess I won't get the job...)
- spez 16y agofunction countdown (num) { for (var i = 0; i <= num; i += 1) { var make_cb = function (n) { return function () {alert(num - n)}; } setTimeout(make_cb(i), i * 1000); } }
- ivankirigin 16y agoDon't answer challenge questions, bro
- spez 16y agoIf Dropbox doesn't want their questions answered, they shouldn't harangue people for up-votes.
- ivankirigin 16y agolol I guess so
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- toni 16y agoA slightly different version: function countdown (num) { for (var i = 0; i <= num; i += 1) { setTimeout(function (i) { return function(){ alert(num - i); } }(i), i * 1000); } } countdown(5);
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- sr71 16y agoInteresting, Zed Shaw is no longer listed on their about page. I wonder if he quit or was fired.
- mahmud 16y agoJust because he is in the HN spotlight doesn't mean he is fair game for gossip.
- petercooper 16y agoAs a "public figure" who has thrust himself into a number of controversies, yes, he is. Ultimately, though, it comes down to the ethics and good taste of those doing the gossiping (or not.) Questioning a change in Dropbox's "Our Team" page isn't very high on the insensitivity meter.
- mahmud 16y agoGreat minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. I am indifferent on Shaw, the man, but from what I have seen of him, he only discusses controversial ideas. He was never the face of Dropbox, not a founding member, doesn't sit on the board, and absolutely has zero visibility wrt Dropbox. Inquiring about his fate with them and his employment status (and digging for gossip) is nothing but prying on the man's privacy, and making his career a public spectacle for his gleeful adversaries. Sure, he brought this upon himself for being opinionated, but let's cut down on the tall-poppy syndrome here. The man is entitled both to his opinions, and his privacy.
- johnnybgoode 16y agoThe first thing listed under "Requirements" is "Bachelor's degree in Computer Science", which you would certainly not need to perform this job.
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- pgbovine 16y agoat the risk of HN turning into online gossip forums ... could we stop with the "you don't need no damn degree to do them codin' jobs" comments? if you truly feel that way, then on your own company's hiring webpage, you don't have to put that as a requirement. but obviously the dropbox folks decided that it was a reasonable requirement, for one reason or another. we can debate the merits of that decision all day and night, but to ad hominem one of its co-founders doesn't seem constructive Edit: thanks for taking down the comment i was referring to
- dotBen 16y agocould we stop with the "you don't need no damn degree to do them codin' jobs" comments? if you truly feel that way, then on your own company's hiring webpage, you don't have to put that as a requirement. Yes, I don't. but obviously the dropbox folks decided that it was a reasonable requirement, for one reason or another. we can debate the merits of that decision all day and night, but to ad hominem one of its co-founders doesn't seem constructive The issue is a legitimate + important discussion point IMHO. What you are saying with your entire comment is "mind your own business - you do what you want on your job req and let others do what they want theirs". But this is actually a community issue - it is self-reinforcing to see people put endless lofty requirements on job reqs and it needs to get called out. As an industry we are missing out on massive talent entering the sector because our job reqs look out of their league.
- eranki 16y agoI should hope that anyone who feels they are extremely qualified would apply regardless of what's in the requirements section! That kind of initiative is a positive trait.
- hab 16y agoThey call this a challenge? Closures and a nested unordered list CSS menu. Wow! What's with the CS degree _requirement_ too? You don't really need 4 years of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, etc. to do what they want. Meh, do not want.
- 9oliYQjP 16y agoThe challenge questions are to filter out completely inappropriate candidates. They aren't meant to determine if you're a genius or not. As for the CS degree requirement, not having one myself I run up against this all the time. A good company will be able to test for equivalent capabilities. A CS degree from DeVry in 1995 is probably not the same as one from Stanford in 2006. But by setting it out as a requirement, you're sending a message to candidates. They don't want a programmer that stumbles about their job. They want one with certain analytical skills and a calculated approach to their job. No, you don't need a CS degree necessarily. But you probably want to be familiar with the material that having a CS degree would suggest you are familiar with. No hiring manager worth their salt would turn away an exceptional candidate because of a lack of formal education unless there were some very specific professional requirements (e.g., you're hiring a professional engineer in countries that recognize them and you need somebody with a B.Eng. degree).
- hab 16y agoThey shouldn't call it a "challenge" then, it should be called a CAPTCHA or something to that effect. As for the CS degree requirement, no candidate worth their salt would send their resume to a place knowing that they lack the first item on the requirements list. You need to make it clear that you read and understood the post before applying (a.k.a. following simple directions). They didn't put it under "nice-to-have", they didn't tuck "or equivalent experience" at the end. It's the first bullet on their "minimum-requirements" list. I do not have a CS degree either, but I believe I can code with the best of them and I can rock their front-end world (I do not want this job though). Had I been seriously looking for another job, I would have simply ignored their post and moved on regardless of compatibility because of that one liner.
- icey 16y agoNow I understand why most YC job postings don't allow comments.
- dennisgorelik 16y agoCould you elaborate on that? What's the harm of getting comments (even if they are negative)?
- icey 16y agoThere is almost no discussion about the actual job, instead it's almost all talk about completely unrelated minutae.
- dennisgorelik 16y ago1) If comments are turned off then there is no discussion about the actual job AT ALL. 2) Different people have different opinion about what relates to actual job discussion and what's not. 3) Do you have any tool that can successfully replace comments and facilitate discussion about actual job? 4) Sorry, it wasn't me who downvoted your comment. I disagree with you, but because I value opposing opinions I actually upvoted your comment to encourage to elaborate further.
- lleger 16y agoBy engineer, they mean programmer or developer, of course.
- sliverstorm 16y agoThe proliferation of web design jobs is beginning to make me wonder if I should, on the side, finally learn advanced page design. My aesthetic skills are weak, and I am pursuing other goals long-term (much closer to the hardware), but do people think it would be a worthwhile tool to help prop myself up in the short-term?
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