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Pivotal | Many locations worldwide | Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Pre/Post-Sales Engineers, Ops, Sales, Admin | ONSITE | http://grnh.se/xiy346 http:/
by jacques_chester 10y ago
Pivotal | Many locations worldwide | Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Pre/Post-Sales Engineers, Ops, Sales, Admin | ONSITE | http://grnh.se/xiy346 http://grnh.se/xiy346
Pivotal's goal is to transform the way the world makes software and we kinda sorta really mean it.
We value aptitude over alma mater, empathy over a list of APIs. It doesn't matter whether your resumé says PHP or PhD: if you're smart, empathetic and know some stuff, we want to work with you.
We have many offices worldwide (pivotal.io/locations) and more coming. Some of our best-known are SF, NYC, Toronto, London, Palo Alto.
We're broken into three main divisions: Pivotal Labs (yes, that Pivotal Labs), Cloud R&D and Big Data.
-- Pivotal Labs helps clients to become better at product development. For engineering we are religiously lean and agile. In practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside. Our product managers are fantastic at keeping products sharply focused, our designers are masters from users to pixels.
-- Cloud R&D is where we build the best cloud platform available: We're the majority contributors to the Cloud Foundry project. Our distribution has the fastest-growing sales of any opensource product ever and it's still zooming up and to the right.
Except for upstream code, every line is pair programmed and TDD'd. We dogfood the cutting edge of the technology on our own commercial public cloud (Pivotal Web Services). It works because we took the XP and Lean DNA of Pivotal Labs and scaled it up to build the best cloud platform available.
Cloud R&D is also responsible for Pivotal Tracker and Spring.
-- Big Data is our suite of battled-hardened products, now open sourced. Greenplum tackles massive datasets with the comfort of PostgreSQL. Apache HAWQ (incubating) brings Greenplum's distributed query planner to Hadoop. Gemfire, donated as Apache Geode, is an in-memory distributed grid with years of high performance in high-stakes systems.
-- Generally
At our offices we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, excellent benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong isn't mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east-coast style is more entertaining to watch. The NYC beer fridge has more IPAs than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.
-- Applying
For engineers, the pipeline is approx: résumé review, phone call, tech screen, pairing interviews. I'm unfamiliar with other disciplines.
To see open jobs and apply, see: http://grnh.se/xiy346 http://grnh.se/xiy346
You can also email me at jchester+hn-jan17@pivotal.io if you have questions. I won't reply to copypasta. I may not be able to reply immediately, as I am just an engineer here.
These help me earn a referral bonuses, which I appreciate.
- kelvin0 10y agoWhy is this downvoted? I've rarely seen downvotes on Who is hiring? Any feedback would be appreciated.
- timeSl 10y agoI don't know for sure, but perhaps because they get the referral bonus from the link provided?
- jacques_chester 10y agoI get downvoted a lot of the time if I mention Pivotal or any of the things we work on (particularly Cloud Foundry). However in this case it might well be the referral link. Some people don't like them on principle and there will always be someone who hasn't seen previous discussions about it[0]. For anyone who hates referral links, go to https://pivotal.io/careers https://pivotal.io/careers. If I have to miss out on a referral in exchange for a good hire, it's worth it in the long run. [0] Notably, this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202874
- praneshp 10y agoI didn't downvote, but maybe some recruiters here are jerks and people didn't like their experience interviewing. The one I spoke to promised to get back with a date for phone screening and vanished, then lied that she emailed me about it. It's unfair on Jacques imo, he was polite with me, is open about getting a referral bonus, and always has informative comments in technical threads.