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You can come work for us at Blue Origin! My team members do a lot of web development and we're recruiting heavily right now. We hire everyone as Software Engine

You can come work for us at Blue Origin! My team members do a lot of web development and we're recruiting heavily right now. We hire everyone as Software Engineers, but there are a variety of specializations people come in with and focus on -- web development included. https://www.blueorigin.com/careers https://www.blueorigin.com/careers

program247365 9y ago
Nice!
djellybeans 9y ago
That's pretty great to hear. I'd like to know what your web development team is doing for the purposes of your company. Incidentally I have been been through the hiring process with Bezos' more familiar company before. What is the hiring process like on the technical level at your company?
- thematt 9y ago
  The web development that happens is typically for: * Systems that analyze flight or test data * Systems that enable manufacturing, supply chain, or other supporting business activities * Systems that are considered to be "customer experience" related * Infrastructure systems that support the other software engineering teams Our hiring process is straightforward. The dev teams review resumes for a fit based on experience and skillset. Next comes a phone screen where we'll ask a series of basic programming questions. If you're in the Seattle area we skip the phone screen and invite you in for a tour and ask you the same questions in-person. Next we do a full interview, which occurs on-site at our headquarters and typically lasts most of the day. You'll interview with multiple software engineers from different teams. The questions you get asked will be deeply technical and are usually real world problems we have had to solve.
  - djellybeans 9y ago
    Most of my more recent experience has been in web agencies, and SaaS. For SaaS in particular CPQ software to help business clients quote product prices for many arbitrary configurations. I don't have as much experience with infrastructure in the large scale, however. I also had a short contract job as a game developer so maybe that can be useful for applications that require real-time performance. I live in the Midwest. I know that with Amazon they had offered me a paid round-trip flight from my city to go to their final round interview. I declined only for personal things to handle at the time. If I ever get to that point with Blue Origin, would that company be able to do the same?
    - thematt 9y ago
      Absolutely, we pay for travel expenses to come interview with us.
NetOpWibby 9y ago
Do you accept remote (East Coast)?
- thematt 9y ago
  We don't have remote software engineers currently (maybe in the future).
  - cwkoss 9y ago
    I understand there are likely business reasons behind this, but kind of funny that a 'space company' doesn't have any remote workers. "We can communicate with a rocket hurtling through space, but we need you to come into the office"
  - NetOpWibby 9y ago
    Ah okay, that's unfortunate.
rajeshp1986 9y ago
Hey Matt!, That's great to hear. I have heard that space companies like BlueOrigin, spacex are not allowed to hire H1B's or non-american citizens. Is that true?
- thematt 9y ago
  I can't speak for other companies but at Blue we are regulated by ITAR, which means candidates must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (current Green Card holder).

program247365 9y ago

Nice!

djellybeans 9y ago

That's pretty great to hear. I'd like to know what your web development team is doing for the purposes of your company. Incidentally I have been been through the hiring process with Bezos' more familiar company before. What is the hiring process like on the technical level at your company?

thematt 9y ago
The web development that happens is typically for: * Systems that analyze flight or test data * Systems that enable manufacturing, supply chain, or other supporting business activities * Systems that are considered to be "customer experience" related * Infrastructure systems that support the other software engineering teams Our hiring process is straightforward. The dev teams review resumes for a fit based on experience and skillset. Next comes a phone screen where we'll ask a series of basic programming questions. If you're in the Seattle area we skip the phone screen and invite you in for a tour and ask you the same questions in-person. Next we do a full interview, which occurs on-site at our headquarters and typically lasts most of the day. You'll interview with multiple software engineers from different teams. The questions you get asked will be deeply technical and are usually real world problems we have had to solve.
- djellybeans 9y ago
  Most of my more recent experience has been in web agencies, and SaaS. For SaaS in particular CPQ software to help business clients quote product prices for many arbitrary configurations. I don't have as much experience with infrastructure in the large scale, however. I also had a short contract job as a game developer so maybe that can be useful for applications that require real-time performance. I live in the Midwest. I know that with Amazon they had offered me a paid round-trip flight from my city to go to their final round interview. I declined only for personal things to handle at the time. If I ever get to that point with Blue Origin, would that company be able to do the same?
  - thematt 9y ago
    Absolutely, we pay for travel expenses to come interview with us.

NetOpWibby 9y ago

Do you accept remote (East Coast)?

thematt 9y ago
We don't have remote software engineers currently (maybe in the future).
- cwkoss 9y ago
  I understand there are likely business reasons behind this, but kind of funny that a 'space company' doesn't have any remote workers. "We can communicate with a rocket hurtling through space, but we need you to come into the office"
- NetOpWibby 9y ago
  Ah okay, that's unfortunate.

rajeshp1986 9y ago

Hey Matt!, That's great to hear. I have heard that space companies like BlueOrigin, spacex are not allowed to hire H1B's or non-american citizens. Is that true?

thematt 9y ago
I can't speak for other companies but at Blue we are regulated by ITAR, which means candidates must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (current Green Card holder).