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Two more positions

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Georgina sent me two more recs. The first is for a front-end developer and the second for a PHP developer (and front-end).
Front end web developer - Online Messaging (Redwood City, CA)
PHP Web developer - Facebook Photo application (East bay area, CA)
Apparently, you can mention my name and I get a bonus. If you get the [...]

Job: PHP UI Engineer (Mountain View)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Restarting this policy…
Job listing - User Interface Engineer (PHP) in Mountain View, California. Contact aknight [at] this site.
The company has developed a shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive lists of products and their corresponding images, ranked by the leading products, brands, stores and styles on the very first page of results. They call this [...]

Eating while you are shitting

Friday, February 15th, 2008

E-mail received.
I am writing to introduce myself and see if you would be interested in talking with me.
My name is [redacted] and I am in Candidate Generation at Yahoo! for our Engineering, and I wanted to touch base with you to see if you might be open to hearing from us about opportunities we [...]

You lost me at Tony

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Subject: Tried to reach you at [phone number redacted]
Morning Tony,
I saw your resume online and wasn’t sure if you were looking to leave Tagged or if you already had. Your resume was outstanding and I wasn’t sure if you were considering scientific, lead or management roles…
Hmm…

Dear recruiter,
You lost me at “Tony.”
Take care,
terry
count: http://one.sentenc.es/
(If you’re about [...]

LAMP/Server Engineer in downtown SF

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

From Stuart Liroff (stuart [at] this address or 408-437-9500 x207):
I’m working for a small (3-people), angel funded startup in downtown S.F. (within easy walking distance from BART). When you hear the names of the investors, it will knock your socks off.
[job description after the jump]

FOX needs a senior PHP front-end developer

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Hmm, it’s been a while since I posted some PHP jobs. (You know this is getting inconvenient. I think I need to just write a job tool for php.net.) Received this rec from a friend filling a position for FOX Interactive Media to work on the American Idol site. They can work in San Francisco, [...]

Job: PHP Application Engineer

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Received this a couple days ago. It involves a project of combining two codebases, updating the Ajax, and building out the scalability in each. Might be interesting to some of you:
Abby is working with a client owned by one of the nation’s largest, innovative, billion dollar companies. My client provides an online product that is [...]

Jobs in PHP at CNET

Friday, September 21st, 2007

This is actually another one of my infamous PHP job postings. But because the people of CNET are so cool, I thought I’d preface it with a couple of CNET stories first.
(I honestly don’t know if I should blog this. I have a standing invite to visit CNET networks next week and, knowing

Engineering Manager in LAMP

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Next Internet is seeking an Engineering Manager for one of our fast growing companies in San Francisco, who is experienced in Internet marketing and advertising network startups with a keen interest in building out the world’s best transaction platform…. Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have strong development skills, with experience in designing and architecting scalable high-performance systems and services that are also flexible, reliable and maintainable Extensive Startup Experience Experience with transport systems such as Strongmail, PowerMTA, Lyris, etc Experience with LAMP open source deployments and ecommerce technology: PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, Postgres, Ruby, etc They will have excellent problem-solving skills, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, along with a quantitative mindset Database skills and experience with large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems are also highly desired This position offers a competitive base salary and bonus program, stock options, and other comprehensive benefits.If you want to work at a company where numbers continue to grow exponentially in every positive aspect, the environment/culture is awesome, the people are friendly and are constantly smiling, laughing, and actually look forward to going into work every day, this is the place to be!

Not a way to begin an e-mail

Friday, August 31st, 2007

I got this cold-email from a Hank Z…

Mr. Chay… (Ms??)
We are the deleted
We saw your resume on the Web…
We are urgently seeking candidates who are SW engineers, and have a background in database SW development, and also expertise in mySQL.
Boy, Hank, (or is it Ms. Hank?) you recruiters know how to bring back bad [...]