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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:37PM (#15825548)
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE | VISA | Full-time

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)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:31PM (#12848135)
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!

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Re:When they don’t want new jobs, just more money on Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:04PM (#12408865)
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.

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.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @12:30PM (#11013335)
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

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Re:Never consider a travel planning startup on Monday January 18, 2016 @12:26PM (#10925570)
To this, I would also add: Local events (things to do) sites.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/15/the-curse-of-the-network-ef...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Thursday October 01, 2015 @01:28PM (#10312860)
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE and we do offer relocation and VISA sponsorship

Course Hero is an education technology platform that helps millions of learners succeed. We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board:

* Full-stack web

* iOS

* Android

* Product and Marketing

* Business Analysts

Our team releases code every day, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each person has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely in teams of engineers, product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

For mobile, we’re focused on iOS and Android for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

Please, no recruiters. Principals only.

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @01:26PM (#9813558)
Fixed. Apologies for the oversight, and we'll make sure not to do that in the future.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:10PM (#9812916)
REDWOOD CITY, CA

ONSITE but we do offer RELOCATION and VISA sponsorship

tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board. EdTech.

Course Hero is looking for engineers who can hit the ground running in a variety of roles:

★ Full-stack web

★ iOS

★ Android

We’re also hiring in product and marketing.

Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.

For mobile, we’re focused on iOS and Android for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

Please, no recruiters. Principals only.

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @07:49PM (#9642988)
REDWOOD CITY, CA

NO REMOTE, but we do offer RELOCATION and VISA sponsorship

tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board. EdTech.

Course Hero is looking for engineers who can hit the ground running in a variety of roles:

  Full-stack web

  iOS and Android

  UX/UI Design
We’re also hiring in product and marketing.

Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.

For mobile, we’re focused on iOS for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

Please, no recruiters. Principals only.

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Re:The Failure of Agile on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:52PM (#9540250)
Like any other set of knowledge, the real skill lies on knowing when and how to apply it. When asked to describe our process, I summarize it as "minimalist Scrum." To us, that means using some aspects of Scrum (small team sizes, prioritized work backlogs, and daily standups) and ignoring others (anything with the word "sprint" in it, pre-planned release cycles, and velocity estimation/tracking). Our culture is more built around continuous deployment.

We've found the process that works well for us, and I encourage everyone to be thoughtful and consider many approaches as they try to do the same.

Re:The New Science of Building Great Teams on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @02:36PM (#9383116)
I love seeing quantitative attempts to study social dynamics, even if it's tricky to extrapolate them to other environments. There definitely seems to be a growing research consensus that people with emotional intelligence--sensitive to others, good at team-building--are more important than previously thought, especially relative to, say, technical skill.

One thing I'm very curious about, with respect to this study's findings, is the relationship with similarly-convincing research about the important of private offices and minimizing distractions. The two aren't totally exclusive, of course, but there is at least some tension:

For example, we now know that 35% of the variation in a team’s performance can be accounted for simply by the number of face-to-face exchanges among team members. We know as well that the “right” number of exchanges in a team is as many as dozens per working hour, but that going beyond that ideal number decreases performance.

That style of interaction does sound a lot easier to facilitate in an open-plan office.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:33AM (#9303863)
REDWOOD CITY, CA

NO REMOTE, BUT WE DO OFFER RELOCATION AND VISA SPONSORSHIP

tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board. EdTech.

Course Hero is looking for engineers who can hit the ground running in a variety of roles:

Full-stack web

iOS

MVC Expert

Performance

We’re also hiring in product and marketing.

Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.

For mobile, we’re focused on iOS for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Please email: [email protected] (and put “Hacker News” in the subject)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015) on Sunday March 01, 2015 @11:09AM (#9127561)
REDWOOD CITY, CA NO REMOTE, BUT WE DO OFFER RELOCATION AND VISA SPONSORSHIP

tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and hiring across the board. EdTech.

Course Hero is looking for engineers who can hit the ground running in a variety of roles:

- Full-stack web

- iOS

- Server Ops

- Interns

We’re also hiring in product and marketing.

Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.

For mobile, we’re focused on iOS for now. Our web stack is LAMP (Symfony/PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Please email: [email protected] (and put “Hacker News” in the subject)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015) on Monday February 02, 2015 @12:58AM (#8982906)
REDWOOD CITY, CA NO REMOTE, BUT WE DO OFFER RELOCATION AND VISA SPONSORSHIP

tl;dr - We’re profitable, pride ourselves on a supportive company culture, and supportive, and we need more engineers. EdTech.

Course Hero is looking for a software engineer (web or iOS) who can hit the ground running.

Our team releases code every day to millions of people, so we're looking for someone who can take on challenges, build new features, and iterate quickly. Each engineer has a role in building Course Hero's architecture and will have the opportunity to touch all parts of the stack. Our projects are big -- terabytes of data and customers around the world -- but our team is small, so you’ll see projects from start to finish, working closely with product managers and designers to ensure successful results.

Our company culture is very open, flat, and transparent. We succeed and learn together. Our office is very comfortable, has a lot of natural light, and great amenities like a gym and walking trails onsite. We’ve tried hard to make this a pleasant and inspiring place to do creative work.

Most importantly, we seek to hire individuals whose personality, integrity and passion for our business make our team better as a whole. We’re growing fast, profitable (yes, it’s true!), and looking for another core team member to push us toward the future.

For mobile, we’re focused on iOS for now. Our web stack is LAMP (PHP) + jQuery and AngularJS, but we’re open to people with all kinds of experience.

https://www.coursehero.com/jobs/

Please email: [email protected] (and put “Hacker News” in the subject)

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