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Most popular tech companies in Silicon Valley

30 points by rvivek 14y ago

richardjordan 14y ago
So my first question when clicking through was what do you mean by popular: Popular by number of applications they get. I understand that this sort of post is promoting the underlying service blogging about the topic. I know it's a fairly common approach on Hacker News, and it's fine, I discover a lot of great blogs and interesting stuff that way. Not sure this really tells me much though. The statistical validity of this sample is definitely questionable so I am not sure it even works on its own terms. Also, I suspect "Quora is basically an Indian site" might be seen as contentious, though I found the traffic stat interesting.
- andyjsong 14y ago
  Hi Richard, I wrote the post, what would you like me to clarify?
  - richardjordan 14y ago
    Oh I don't think it was unclear. It's nicely written. I am just not convinced that it tells us a whole lot, if you know what I mean. The over-representation of Quora in your sample's applicant behavior being the exception.
    - andyjsong 14y ago
      Yeah I know what you mean. I'd love to talk off the record, but since I have to balance between the companies and user's privacy that is the most I could disclose. One thing I can disclose, the shotgun style of applying to all the company works. Out of all the cohorts, by percentage, more interns were hired than full-timers because they were open to applying to "lesser known" companies. This is also advantageous because the interns could pick which companies they wanted to work with. The intern cohort might have also had better success because there is no barrier to entry with H1Bs.
EvanKelly 14y ago
Slightly off topic. I work in an office that uses IE7. About half the internet is broken for me. I have no options to upgrade or use chrome frame. I completely understand not supporting older browsers, but please please PLEASE don't block me from your site. I don't care if the formatting is completely borked or unusable. I expect that to happen a lot and would never blame a site for it. Giving me a warning that my experience will be degraded is okay too, but keeping me off your site is rather frustrating. For an article like this, if the formatting sucked, I might view source and at least see the text. Until the comments get going, I have no way to gather anything about the article.
- rvivek 14y ago
  I'm truly sorry for that. I'll get that fixed. Meanwhile, I took a full-page screenshot (http://awesomescreenshot.com/04614cty4c http://awesomescreenshot.com/04614cty4c). This is the best I could do for a quick turnaround. Links [1] Six programming challenges: https://www.hackerrank.com/backtoschool/challenges https://www.hackerrank.com/backtoschool/challenges [2] Quora traffic: http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/02/26/india-passes-the-us-to-become-quoras-top-source-of-traffic/ http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/02/26/india-passes-the-us-to-b... [3] Monthly contest: https://www.hackerrank.com/monthly https://www.hackerrank.com/monthly
  - EvanKelly 14y ago
    Thanks for the reply. You guys certainly aren't the only site that does this, and I know I'm in an increasingly shrinking demographic (thankfully). Unfortunately, in many large organizations with strict information access policies, it's very difficult to get progress done on the technical side. I need someone to break cnn.com or another heavily trafficked site, and then maybe the big wigs will throw a fit.
lightup88 14y ago
Anyone else surprised to see Facebook/Twitter amongst the most popular for the B2S cohort? I would have guessed more of their allure to college-aged applicants had worn off and transferred elsewhere by now.
jisaacstone 14y ago
Page takes several seconds to load and then just shows a header? Not just broken on IE7, apparently . . . .
- rvivek 14y ago
  Sorry about it. Could you please check now?
zalew 14y ago
offtopic: while I'm sadly not surprised by yet another page that takes js gymnastics to load simple text after loads of time staring at a blank page, could somebody explain what's going on in that source code? o_0 <span id="manifestyml" style="display:none"> --- FB-PaulG.jpg: FB-PaulG-68c51e61990724176b68959e2e686ce8.jpg FB-PaulG/index.jpg: FB-PaulG-68c51e61990724176b68959e2e686ce8.jpg HR-codeeditor-screenshot.png: HR-codeeditor-screenshot-859996176c0a9ce1b8e4f1e8622128a0.png HR-codeeditor-screenshot/index.png: HR-codeeditor-screenshot-859996176c0a9ce1b8e4f1e8622128a0.png HR-homepage-screenshot.png: HR-homepage-screenshot-bce0c47541de64b962c50001bb0fce04.png HR-homepage-screenshot/index.png: HR-homepage-screenshot-bce0c47541de64b962c50001bb0fce04.png ... </span>
- idlecool 14y ago
  This block keeps track of assets and their hashed paths. We makes sure all our (hackerrank) assets are being pulled in from cloudfront without any need for path invalidation after each "assets compiled" production push.
  - zalew 14y ago
    but why do you push 1200 lines of this to the client? and why do you display a simple article with js?
    - rvivek 14y ago
      It is wrong. It should be removed. On it.
BrianEatWorld 14y ago
I have always wanted to work for Mozilla. Are they not that popular among graduates or are they not in the survey for some other reason?
- rvivek 14y ago
  Hey Brianeatworld, these are a few companies which participated in the hackathon as sponsors. Mozilla wasn't in it.
- hkmurakami 14y ago
  I also have this inexplicable desire to work for Mozilla, albeit on the PM/Business side of things (and more importantly, to help contribute to its success). Maybe Mozilla isn't as visible on campus in their recruiting efforts?
hkmurakami 14y ago
>My hypothesis is that a majority of CS4 applicants came from India and Quora has 30.8% of their traffic from India. Wow, I wonder what the ratio of Page hits vs posts is like for Indian IPs and how that compares with other geographic regions.
- andyjsong 14y ago
  This might shed a little light: http://blog.hackerrank.com/day/2013/02/06 http://blog.hackerrank.com/day/2013/02/06
vimhacking 14y ago
How can you guys be so dumb to expose this in your blog ? https://www.hackerrank.com/rest/contests/master/challenges?_=1364940402332 https://www.hackerrank.com/rest/contests/master/challenges?_...

30 points by rvivek 14y ago

So my first question when clicking through was what do you mean by popular: Popular by number of applications they get. I understand that this sort of post is promoting the underlying service blogging about the topic. I know it's a fairly common approach on Hacker News, and it's fine, I discover a lot of great blogs and interesting stuff that way. Not sure this really tells me much though. The statistical validity of this sample is definitely questionable so I am not sure it even works on its own terms. Also, I suspect "Quora is basically an Indian site" might be seen as contentious, though I found the traffic stat interesting.

andyjsong 14y ago
Hi Richard, I wrote the post, what would you like me to clarify?
- richardjordan 14y ago
  Oh I don't think it was unclear. It's nicely written. I am just not convinced that it tells us a whole lot, if you know what I mean. The over-representation of Quora in your sample's applicant behavior being the exception.
  - andyjsong 14y ago
    Yeah I know what you mean. I'd love to talk off the record, but since I have to balance between the companies and user's privacy that is the most I could disclose. One thing I can disclose, the shotgun style of applying to all the company works. Out of all the cohorts, by percentage, more interns were hired than full-timers because they were open to applying to "lesser known" companies. This is also advantageous because the interns could pick which companies they wanted to work with. The intern cohort might have also had better success because there is no barrier to entry with H1Bs.

EvanKelly 14y ago

Slightly off topic. I work in an office that uses IE7. About half the internet is broken for me. I have no options to upgrade or use chrome frame. I completely understand not supporting older browsers, but please please PLEASE don't block me from your site. I don't care if the formatting is completely borked or unusable. I expect that to happen a lot and would never blame a site for it. Giving me a warning that my experience will be degraded is okay too, but keeping me off your site is rather frustrating. For an article like this, if the formatting sucked, I might view source and at least see the text. Until the comments get going, I have no way to gather anything about the article.

rvivek 14y ago
I'm truly sorry for that. I'll get that fixed. Meanwhile, I took a full-page screenshot (http://awesomescreenshot.com/04614cty4c http://awesomescreenshot.com/04614cty4c). This is the best I could do for a quick turnaround. Links [1] Six programming challenges: https://www.hackerrank.com/backtoschool/challenges https://www.hackerrank.com/backtoschool/challenges [2] Quora traffic: http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/02/26/india-passes-the-us-to-become-quoras-top-source-of-traffic/ http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/02/26/india-passes-the-us-to-b... [3] Monthly contest: https://www.hackerrank.com/monthly https://www.hackerrank.com/monthly
- EvanKelly 14y ago
  Thanks for the reply. You guys certainly aren't the only site that does this, and I know I'm in an increasingly shrinking demographic (thankfully). Unfortunately, in many large organizations with strict information access policies, it's very difficult to get progress done on the technical side. I need someone to break cnn.com or another heavily trafficked site, and then maybe the big wigs will throw a fit.

lightup88 14y ago

Anyone else surprised to see Facebook/Twitter amongst the most popular for the B2S cohort? I would have guessed more of their allure to college-aged applicants had worn off and transferred elsewhere by now.

jisaacstone 14y ago

Page takes several seconds to load and then just shows a header? Not just broken on IE7, apparently . . . .

rvivek 14y ago
Sorry about it. Could you please check now?

zalew 14y ago

offtopic: while I'm sadly not surprised by yet another page that takes js gymnastics to load simple text after loads of time staring at a blank page, could somebody explain what's going on in that source code? o_0 <span id="manifestyml" style="display:none"> --- FB-PaulG.jpg: FB-PaulG-68c51e61990724176b68959e2e686ce8.jpg FB-PaulG/index.jpg: FB-PaulG-68c51e61990724176b68959e2e686ce8.jpg HR-codeeditor-screenshot.png: HR-codeeditor-screenshot-859996176c0a9ce1b8e4f1e8622128a0.png HR-codeeditor-screenshot/index.png: HR-codeeditor-screenshot-859996176c0a9ce1b8e4f1e8622128a0.png HR-homepage-screenshot.png: HR-homepage-screenshot-bce0c47541de64b962c50001bb0fce04.png HR-homepage-screenshot/index.png: HR-homepage-screenshot-bce0c47541de64b962c50001bb0fce04.png ... </span>

idlecool 14y ago
This block keeps track of assets and their hashed paths. We makes sure all our (hackerrank) assets are being pulled in from cloudfront without any need for path invalidation after each "assets compiled" production push.
- zalew 14y ago
  but why do you push 1200 lines of this to the client? and why do you display a simple article with js?
  - rvivek 14y ago
    It is wrong. It should be removed. On it.

BrianEatWorld 14y ago

I have always wanted to work for Mozilla. Are they not that popular among graduates or are they not in the survey for some other reason?

rvivek 14y ago
Hey Brianeatworld, these are a few companies which participated in the hackathon as sponsors. Mozilla wasn't in it.
hkmurakami 14y ago
I also have this inexplicable desire to work for Mozilla, albeit on the PM/Business side of things (and more importantly, to help contribute to its success). Maybe Mozilla isn't as visible on campus in their recruiting efforts?

hkmurakami 14y ago

>My hypothesis is that a majority of CS4 applicants came from India and Quora has 30.8% of their traffic from India. Wow, I wonder what the ratio of Page hits vs posts is like for Indian IPs and how that compares with other geographic regions.

andyjsong 14y ago
This might shed a little light: http://blog.hackerrank.com/day/2013/02/06 http://blog.hackerrank.com/day/2013/02/06

vimhacking 14y ago

How can you guys be so dumb to expose this in your blog ? https://www.hackerrank.com/rest/contests/master/challenges?_=1364940402332 https://www.hackerrank.com/rest/contests/master/challenges?_...