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I'll mention that we're still hiring for both full-timers and interns. Here's the job post: Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhe

by spicyj 15y ago

I'll mention that we're still hiring for both full-timers and interns. Here's the job post: Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math exercise problems per day, all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises, http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/ http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/), and Sal's videos have been viewed over 117 million times. We're just getting started feeding this data we're collecting back into the product to help our users learn more (http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac... http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...). If you're interested in data, analytics, and education, this is a dream gig. Plus, it's one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine. We're hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead. http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs

kamens 15y ago
I'll just add that even though the job ad isn't up yet, we're specifically looking for you quantitative big data folk. Apply through the ordinary software developer position for now -- but we're hunting for some passionate data engineers to do more stuff like this: http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-machine-learning-to-assess-student-mastery.html http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...
- tim_sw 15y ago
  can some of KA data be made available for 3rd party analysis?
  - kamens 15y ago
    We've thought about it, need someone to go through and properly anonymize everything, etc -- not at the moment.
- jph00 15y ago
  I'm from Kaggle. We'd be happy to help you anonymize your data and create and run one or more data mining competitions for free. Ping us through www.kaggle.com if you're interested. Might be a good way to get started with deep data science, and also leverage the data engineers you hire once you have them.
jskopek 15y ago
Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see how first hand how some pretty famous developers work. The company now employs both the creator of jQuery and the first Google employee, and that's just the development side!
- deleted 15y ago
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jc4p 15y ago
Even though I currently work remotely from school at a fantastic company that I used to work for full-time before I re-entered school, being able to help KA in anyway would be a dream come true for me. Sadly I've had to resort to creating a crontab entry for e-mailing me when any non-known IP visits the projects page I set up for my application, no visits yet :( I'm kicking myself for not making something like the URL kamens tweeted couple days ago for the kid who was looking to intern, but it's kind of hard to make a beautiful website when the thing I'm most comfortable with is backend design and MySQL. I'm just hoping kamens' tweet about "throwing away half your resumes" so you don't hire unlucky candidates doesn't end up being the case!
- pja 15y ago
  but it's kind of hard to make a beautiful website A $20 Wordpress theme solves this problem. Seriously. I don't understand why programmers insist on trying to do design work themselves when the price of quality designs is so low. Sure, if you want to noodle around with design for its own sake (learning is fun!), go nuts. But if you just want to get on with programming then spend the $20 and be happy. Slight downside: having to put up with Wordpress...you can't have everything.
angrycoder 15y ago
Its post like this that make me sad to be a .net guy living on the east coast, even though I have 10 years of web app experience.
- spicyj 15y ago
  Remote work can be a possibility for the right candidate -- there are a couple devs who work remotely right now. If you're interested, it can't hurt to apply.
DrCatbox 15y ago
Do you hire people from other countries? To work from remote.
hsshah 15y ago
Just yesterday, I was browsing the exercise generation framework - Khan exercises on github yesterday and had a question. Can the framework be used independent of KA (ie for other exercises and youtube videos) ? Thanks for the great job you guys are doing of bringing quality education to everyone.
- spicyj 15y ago
  Absolutely. The server-side code is also open-source and can be found here: https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Code/Website/Group/stable https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Code/Website/Group/stable Of course, we write the software specifically for the Khan Academy site so you would need to change some parts of it to adapt it to other uses, but everything is out in the open for anyone to work on and use.

by spicyj 15y ago

kamens 15y ago

I'll just add that even though the job ad isn't up yet, we're specifically looking for you quantitative big data folk. Apply through the ordinary software developer position for now -- but we're hunting for some passionate data engineers to do more stuff like this: http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-machine-learning-to-assess-student-mastery.html http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...

tim_sw 15y ago
can some of KA data be made available for 3rd party analysis?
- kamens 15y ago
  We've thought about it, need someone to go through and properly anonymize everything, etc -- not at the moment.
jph00 15y ago
I'm from Kaggle. We'd be happy to help you anonymize your data and create and run one or more data mining competitions for free. Ping us through www.kaggle.com if you're interested. Might be a good way to get started with deep data science, and also leverage the data engineers you hire once you have them.

jskopek 15y ago

Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see how first hand how some pretty famous developers work. The company now employs both the creator of jQuery and the first Google employee, and that's just the development side!

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jc4p 15y ago

Even though I currently work remotely from school at a fantastic company that I used to work for full-time before I re-entered school, being able to help KA in anyway would be a dream come true for me. Sadly I've had to resort to creating a crontab entry for e-mailing me when any non-known IP visits the projects page I set up for my application, no visits yet :( I'm kicking myself for not making something like the URL kamens tweeted couple days ago for the kid who was looking to intern, but it's kind of hard to make a beautiful website when the thing I'm most comfortable with is backend design and MySQL. I'm just hoping kamens' tweet about "throwing away half your resumes" so you don't hire unlucky candidates doesn't end up being the case!

pja 15y ago
but it's kind of hard to make a beautiful website A $20 Wordpress theme solves this problem. Seriously. I don't understand why programmers insist on trying to do design work themselves when the price of quality designs is so low. Sure, if you want to noodle around with design for its own sake (learning is fun!), go nuts. But if you just want to get on with programming then spend the $20 and be happy. Slight downside: having to put up with Wordpress...you can't have everything.

angrycoder 15y ago

Its post like this that make me sad to be a .net guy living on the east coast, even though I have 10 years of web app experience.

spicyj 15y ago
Remote work can be a possibility for the right candidate -- there are a couple devs who work remotely right now. If you're interested, it can't hurt to apply.

DrCatbox 15y ago

Do you hire people from other countries? To work from remote.

hsshah 15y ago

Just yesterday, I was browsing the exercise generation framework - Khan exercises on github yesterday and had a question. Can the framework be used independent of KA (ie for other exercises and youtube videos) ? Thanks for the great job you guys are doing of bringing quality education to everyone.

spicyj 15y ago
Absolutely. The server-side code is also open-source and can be found here: https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Code/Website/Group/stable https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Code/Website/Group/stable Of course, we write the software specifically for the Khan Academy site so you would need to change some parts of it to adapt it to other uses, but everything is out in the open for anyone to work on and use.