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Re:Show HN: What would Paul Graham do? on Monday October 15, 2012 @02:40PM (#4656486)
What's it built with?
That description sounds like exactly who Twitter would want to hire. Knowing Scala beforehand isn't a requirement; I certainly didn't. It's possible that by sending the resume only to a specific engineering manager, it got lost in the shuffle. Have you tried following up, and/or contacting recruiting?
Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database on Saturday September 15, 2012 @07:26PM (#4527629)
Elaborate?
Re:I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned on Monday September 03, 2012 @03:50PM (#4471576)
Github has remote employees.
Re:Ten million users is the new one million users on Friday August 03, 2012 @03:56PM (#4335857)
There's no way they have 1MM DAU. People play that once and then leave.
Re:How to be a growth hacker on Sunday July 29, 2012 @04:07PM (#4309545)
We've historically had waaay more engineers than marketers on twitter's growth team. We look at growth less as marketing and more about optimizing (through ux, design, experiment, machine-learning, analytics, etc) all of our possible distribution channels with respect to a set of core metrics.

We lean towards teaching good generalist programmers how to do "growth," which actually doesn't feel much like marketing in day-to-day practice.

Re:How to be a growth hacker on Sunday July 29, 2012 @03:51PM (#4309489)
If this is something you'd like to do for twitter, and you have javascript, rails, and/or java/scala chops, or you're just a damn good generalist engineer who can pick up anything, send me an email at lzmfAuxjuufs/dpn.