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And here I am, trying to apply for a Senior position there [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12752642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12752642

reustle 10y ago
Sounds like they need you :-)
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cyberferret 10y ago
Well, the breach was back in February this year, so I hope they have put better security in place since then. I've seen ads for Weebly all over the place, but never realised they had that many users. Good luck with your application... :)
- ryanburk 10y ago
  accounts doesn't mean the same thing as current or active users. a company very likely doesn't delete accounts right away or at all, even if the service has been cancelled. for example, a few years ago microsoft's live ID system had well over a billion accounts. but MAU was only around 450M. and that is with culling / deleting accounts after a year if they were unused.
  - joncalhoun 10y ago
    While I agree the two are different, I also think in weeks case accounts could translate into multiple users. I know for a fact that my wife and her sister both share a weebly account for their business and I believe they have to share a login to do this.
jc4p 10y ago
That job listing is just so sad. Who starts a senior android role's requirements with "git workflows"?
- hueving 10y ago
  Organizations that heavily rely on git? It might seem trivial to you, but the last thing I want in a CI/CD pipeline is senior engineers that don't understand the underlying technology. Believe me, I've interviewed lots of people for senior positions that just haven't had to properly learn revision control. It's not a given.
  - jc4p 10y ago
    Perhaps I should've gone in more detail. I'm not upset about them wanting people who are proficient in git, I'm saddened that the job listing doesn't mention anything about what a Senior Android Developer does at Weebly. The only Android related things on the job listing are proficiency with the IDE (Android Studio) and generic "frameworks". I am an Android engineer, I clicked this job listing earlier today when it was on HN because I was interested in it. From the perspective of a listing that tries to get a good funnel of candidates coming in, it does nothing for me. Would you apply to that job listing? I spend a lot of my day to day helping companies optimize their job listings, especially when they have high view numbers but low application click through rates, so this is a pet peeve.
    - sroussey 10y ago
      What are your suggestions?
      - jc4p 10y ago
        I wrote a post about this a while back: http://kasrarahjerdi.com/2016/08/on-developer-hiring/ http://kasrarahjerdi.com/2016/08/on-developer-hiring/ Basically I like job listings that include _specific_ information about the role at the company. Maybe that means listing some of the hard challenges the other people on the team have worked on recently, maybe it just means listing the frameworks and libraries they're using, but anything to help me differentiate their Android role from someone else's Android role.

reustle 10y ago

Sounds like they need you :-)

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cyberferret 10y ago

Well, the breach was back in February this year, so I hope they have put better security in place since then. I've seen ads for Weebly all over the place, but never realised they had that many users. Good luck with your application... :)

ryanburk 10y ago
accounts doesn't mean the same thing as current or active users. a company very likely doesn't delete accounts right away or at all, even if the service has been cancelled. for example, a few years ago microsoft's live ID system had well over a billion accounts. but MAU was only around 450M. and that is with culling / deleting accounts after a year if they were unused.
- joncalhoun 10y ago
  While I agree the two are different, I also think in weeks case accounts could translate into multiple users. I know for a fact that my wife and her sister both share a weebly account for their business and I believe they have to share a login to do this.

jc4p 10y ago

That job listing is just so sad. Who starts a senior android role's requirements with "git workflows"?

hueving 10y ago
Organizations that heavily rely on git? It might seem trivial to you, but the last thing I want in a CI/CD pipeline is senior engineers that don't understand the underlying technology. Believe me, I've interviewed lots of people for senior positions that just haven't had to properly learn revision control. It's not a given.
- jc4p 10y ago
  Perhaps I should've gone in more detail. I'm not upset about them wanting people who are proficient in git, I'm saddened that the job listing doesn't mention anything about what a Senior Android Developer does at Weebly. The only Android related things on the job listing are proficiency with the IDE (Android Studio) and generic "frameworks". I am an Android engineer, I clicked this job listing earlier today when it was on HN because I was interested in it. From the perspective of a listing that tries to get a good funnel of candidates coming in, it does nothing for me. Would you apply to that job listing? I spend a lot of my day to day helping companies optimize their job listings, especially when they have high view numbers but low application click through rates, so this is a pet peeve.
  - sroussey 10y ago
    What are your suggestions?
    - jc4p 10y ago
      I wrote a post about this a while back: http://kasrarahjerdi.com/2016/08/on-developer-hiring/ http://kasrarahjerdi.com/2016/08/on-developer-hiring/ Basically I like job listings that include _specific_ information about the role at the company. Maybe that means listing some of the hard challenges the other people on the team have worked on recently, maybe it just means listing the frameworks and libraries they're using, but anything to help me differentiate their Android role from someone else's Android role.