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Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA. deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com http://www.deviantart.com) wants developers. We're fully remote[1];
by kemayo 15y ago
Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA.
deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com http://www.deviantart.com) wants developers. We're fully remote[1]; there's no central office with a devteam located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists.
One exception to all that: there's an Infrastructure Engineer position which is located in Vancouver. It's C++/Java focused, and involves developing backend services used by the rest of the site.
We post information about our development process here sometimes: http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/ http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/ Apply here: http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply?source=hn http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply?source=hn
[1]: http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/We-re-all-remote-220038037 http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/We-re-all-remote-220038037
- rinnytinny 15y agoNote: I've applied to this opportunity before. Did not receive a response. Funny to see it posted again... Maybe they are looking for something different than "PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL"? Hard to say...
- JoeCortopassi 15y agoYeah, I've applied there to without any sort of response. My impression was that they either are looking for something more specific than they let on here, or that they have a high turn over rate. Not necessarily bad things, but they might narrow down their employee search by providing more details
- kemayo 15y agoNeither's the case. We want what we say... but we're picky, and wind up passing on a lot of applicants. It's a multi-step process, and we prefer to err on the side of passing people up, so there's lots of opportunities for perfectly qualified people to not get hired. One downside is that we get enough resumes coming in that we don't tend to respond to someone who's rejected at the resume-evaluation stage.
- danberger 15y agoYeah but you should still at least respond to people. I mean, why not? It's a win-win. Candidates at least find out and you look good by showing you care enough to get back to them.
- kjackson 15y agoIt's called having some common courtesy. Companies such as yours that think it's beneath them to spend the 10 seconds to respond back to people is a huge redflag that they're filled with arrogant pricks.
- reinhardt 15y agoUnfortunately this courtesy is anything but common in my experience, it's not the exception. Hell, I've had companies and recruiters disappear after showing initial interest, e.g. after the phone screening stage. Call me a cynic but these days I'm pleasantly surprised when I receive even a negative reply.
- ecaron 15y agoI would love for someone to put together a weekend project where people can anonymously list where they apply and if they ever got a response.
- Udo 15y agoWelcome to the club. Mostly. I applied for that as well. At least I got a (negative) response but I think it was automated. I'm not sure what they're actually looking for, maybe we're not "artsy" enough or something...
- robinduckett 15y agoI've applied for this multiple times, and as I see here you haven't replied to a lot of people. I've met one of your developers at a DeviantArt meeting, and he seemed like one of the nicest blokes I've ever met. Extreme shame about the management.
- aculver 15y agoThis reminds me of something the CEO of a fortune 500 company I worked for said during a company-wide Q&A. An employee had mentioned that he applied for an opportunity within the company and never heard back from the hiring manager. The CEO didn't miss a beat, responding: "Let me just say to all the managers in the room, if I ever hear of that happening, you won't be managing in this organization."
- robinduckett 15y agoI had the same experience with a company in Gibraltar, got to the phone interview, went well, was told to expect an email with details of flights over and heard nothing, it's been months now. The CEO didn't come to my rescue, and I haven't heard from them since.
- pyre 15y agoI applied to this too in the past, and got to the point where they said they wanted a second interview, but then they said that they 'moved forward with another candidate.' The position is still open so apparently that candidate went no where too. I will note that at times during the interview process they would say that I would hear from them 'shortly' but then hear nothing for upwards of 3 weeks.
- JoeCortopassi 15y agoI would encourage anyone wanting to apply here to read this first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061860 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061860
- robinduckett 15y agoI.e. don't fucking bother unless the management changes completely. I agree.