If you're interested in a front-end position at SurveyMonkey, feel free to get in touch--we're hiring right now and, having joined recently, I can say it's an awesome place to work.
We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.
Responsibilities
Work with Michael, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Andrew, and Patrick to create a world class set of products. We're a small team (just 5 engineers and 2 designers), but we work smart and get a lot done. Here's some of the cool stuff we're working on right now: a queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, an iOS app, and a stealth web crawler.
We do story-driven development, so you'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.
Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)
- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)
- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release
You get extra bonus points for:
- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)
- Ability to write complex SQL
- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.
- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx
- Story-driven development
- Web service/API development (REST)
- Experience with iOS development (Objective-C)
- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously
Perks
- Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)
- 17 days of PTO (vacation)
- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)
- A substantial amount of equity in the company
If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to [email protected].
We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).
I was beginning to have some minor wrist pain which seemed to be from mouse usage, but I switched to a magic trackpad and I'm not having any issues so far. It's not suitable for all tasks but for basic desktop mousing it's great, and gestures are indispensable.
I think it's a mistake to categorize all web startups as belonging to the "web startup" industry.
Even though we (CarWoo! YCS09) are a web startup, we see ourselves primarily as a company that plays in the automotive industry. All of our key metrics are highly-correlated with the automotive industry, not with what Techcrunch writes on any given day.
While a lot of YC startups' metrics ebb and flow with the goings on of the echo chamber, many do not.
It's not classic, but it is a diversified portfolio. YC invests in startups across all industries--automotive, mobile, health, financial, entertainment, etc.--which presumably is less risky (lower variance in returns) vis-a-vis just investing in one sector.
So, it's not really a diverse portfolio, but it's definitely a portfolio play, which is substantially less risky than having all your assets tied up in the stock of a single startup.
Think about it this way, if 2001 hit again and all tech stocks plummeted, all the companies in the YC portfolio would be substantially negatively impacted, so there isn't a portfolio effect to protect against this correlation in YC's assets.
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