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by zmillman 9y ago
My take is that Lever's features are well-optimized for companies doing outbound sourcing for roles like engineering (e.g. the extension, snooze features, pipeline structure) and where most hiring is owned by managers who don't ha
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by zmillman 9y ago
Ah man, you've been so lucky (and unlucky). You know far more about your needs and are able to evaluate how well software would solve them, and the salespeople you've talked to haven't been worth the time....and that's n
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by zmillman 9y ago
How recently have you used Lever? The job board integrations got a lot better near the end of last year
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by zmillman 10y ago
Outside of GoogBookSoft, every interview process has survival bias and statistically insignificant sample sizes. Gotta do the best we can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by zmillman 10y ago
Author here! Let me know if you've got any questions :)
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by zmillman 10y ago
Male engineer at Lever here, and I can confirm that we don't make hiring decisions based on gender or gender presentation. It's not only highly illegal, but totally not the point of tracking diversity metrics. The ultimate goal he
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by zmillman 11y ago
I'm pretty understanding of occasional bugs, but Zenefits' site has been one of the most consistently buggy pieces of software I've ever used. Every flow has had broken pieces of UI, incorrect form validation, totally wrong c
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by zmillman 11y ago
I've been hit with this too and it's not pretty at all. If anyone else is concerned about this, you should talk with your CEO/legal team about early exercise options which can remove a lot of the risk of massive tax liabiliti
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by zmillman 11y ago
Magoosh ~ Berkeley, CA ~ Software Engineer (Rails + more) ### We’re looking for our third full-stack developer to contribute to building the future of test prep. Our engineering team is small (two developers + you), but we have a huge impac
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by zmillman 11y ago
Magoosh -- Berkeley, CA We’re looking for our third full-stack developer to help build the future of test prep. Magoosh’s Engineering team is small, but we have a huge impact! We already help millions of students around the world study and
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What Founders Should Know Before They Raise VC (and Why Magoosh Chose Not To)(magoosh.com)
4 points by zmillman 11y ago|0 comments
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Why Magoosh Doesn’t Negotiate Salary and Neither Should You(magoosh.com)
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by zmillman 12y ago
Hmm, what about word stemming? I looked up "windmills" and got an empty result set.
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by zmillman 12y ago
Hey aboodman, I was wondering if you've got some other recommended reading for designing offline applications. I'd love to read more about common design patterns.
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by zmillman 12y ago
Junior Developer at Magoosh ( http://magoosh.com ) -- Berkeley, CA (interns welcome too) =-=-=-=-==-= We’re looking for another full-stack developer to join our team building the future of test prep. Our product helps tens of thou
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by zmillman 12y ago
I knew I recognized you from somewhere! For those who don't know, nirvdrum's one of the primary contributors to rubber https://github.com/rubber/rubber (it's a pretty critical part of our current infrast
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by zmillman 12y ago
Does anyone know how Amazon's Elastic Load Balancers are affected? I can't find anything on the AWS site
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by zmillman 13y ago
Magoosh - Berkeley, CA - Junior Developer (fulltime, intern) Magoosh is changing test preparation by building applications that students love. We’re a young startup, but we’re profitable, we’re growing fast, and we have wildly positive feed
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by zmillman 13y ago
Just a quick usability issue I noticed: The numbers in the Gross (Amount?) column are only differentiated by their color. Red-green colorblindness is pretty common, so it may be hard for colorblind users to distinguish between the two. Addi
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by zmillman 13y ago
Junior Web & Mobile Developer at Magoosh (Berkeley, CA) We’re looking for another programmer to help us to build the future of Magoosh. We make websites and mobile applications that help students around the world study for exams with vi
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by zmillman 13y ago
Junior Rails Developer at Magoosh - Berkeley, CA - Full-Time ( http://magoosh.com/jobs/junior-rails-developer/ ) We’re looking for a friendly programmer to join us in bringing affordable and high-quality online test
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by zmillman 13y ago
We're using HoneyBadger at Magoosh. It's been working quite well for us. The Capistrano integration for tracking deployments is really handy. We used to use Exceptional because it was really cheap, but maintenance and bugfixes see
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by zmillman 13y ago
Magoosh - Berkeley, CA - Junior Rails Developer -- The company -- Magoosh is a small company delivering online test prep for grad school exams. We focus on high quality content and great customer support. -- The position -- We’re looking fo
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by zmillman 13y ago
Berkeley, CA ~ Developer Intern at Magoosh ( http://magoosh.com/jobs/mobile-developer-intern/ ) Us: A small team of 8 wise-crackers bringing online test prep to the world with 10s of thousands of happy students and an office in downtown Ber
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by zmillman 14y ago
I guess this is a pretty common itch. I scratched our office's with a weekend project. (it's open source if you want to host your own) https://github.com/zmillman/foosball_tracker
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Ask HN: Is there a tool to track search rankings in Google Play?
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by zmillman 14y ago
If you don't need the user's timezone immediately for their first request (which I assume is why you can't use a javascript solution), using getTimezoneOffset() works pretty well. Shameless plug: I wrote a gem to handle this in Rails ( htt
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by zmillman 15y ago
You should give your submit inputs the 'btn' class for better styling. The default style for submits makes them look disabled. (you can also add the 'primary' class to provide a splash of color and highlight the recommended action)
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by zmillman 15y ago
Our site ( http://gre.magoosh.com ) serves up content for a variety of exams, each of which is accessible from a single subdomain. Since content is developed for the exams somewhat independently, we have to be able to roll out releases at d