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NoRedInk in San Francisco (or remote). Full stack rails engineers wanted to make sure that grammer is taught good. Every one's revolutioneyesing educaton but w

NoRedInk in San Francisco (or remote). Full stack rails engineers wanted to make sure that grammer is taught good. Every one's revolutioneyesing educaton but while some student's cant even right the write words. Then there was NoRedInk. NoRedInk helps students quickly improve their grammar and writing skills. We've got a small, technically excellent engineering team. We extensively use React.js and Flux in production. I work here because I get to learn about my practice (as well as my failing grammar skills) every day. I work here because I care about education. I work here because existing online tools for teaching grammar and writing are pathetic. Join us as engineer #7, and improve how grammar is taught. https://www.noredink.com/jobs https://www.noredink.com/jobs p.s. Other people think we're awesome, too: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2013/12/19/noredink-is-growing-at-mach-speed-10-of-the-us-school-system-using/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2013/12/19/noredink-is-...

santoriv 12y ago
I applied for this position, completed a 2 hour programming exercise, and then was told that you do not hire remote (or at least remote outside of the US). Please modify your posting to be accurate.
- rtfeldman 12y ago
  My apologies for that. We do hire remote outside the US (we currently have a remote employee working from São Paulo, Brazil[1]), but in your case we realized too late in the process that the time zone difference would have been too extreme for daytime collaboration. Please accept my apologies that we did not come to this realization before sending you the programming exercise. It's too late for me to edit the parent post, but I will clarify in future postings that we're looking for remote with up to 6 hours of time zone difference from PST. [1] https://www.noredink.com/about/team https://www.noredink.com/about/team
  - p4wnc6 12y ago
    What if remote workers from other time zones are happy to work hours based on a +/- 6 hour time zone from PST? It's puzzling why there would be a specific band of time zones from which candidates are permitted to already be living, instead of a specific set of hours that you state in the job ad, asking that candidates only apply if they are OK working those particular hours.
    - santoriv 12y ago
      Yes exactly. I had stated that I was willing to be available during all PST business hours before I was sent the coding exercise. To be clear, I don't get upset if I send people my resume and I get completely ignored or if I fill out an online application and get completely ignored. That's pretty much par for the course. I don't want to make a huge deal about it, but I feel like there is a higher standard that you need to follow when you ask people to invest a significant amount of time in a coding exercise. Anyway, their product seems pretty good and they are one of the few startups that can legitimately say that they are trying to make the world a better place, so that's pretty cool.

santoriv 12y ago

I applied for this position, completed a 2 hour programming exercise, and then was told that you do not hire remote (or at least remote outside of the US). Please modify your posting to be accurate.

rtfeldman 12y ago
My apologies for that. We do hire remote outside the US (we currently have a remote employee working from São Paulo, Brazil[1]), but in your case we realized too late in the process that the time zone difference would have been too extreme for daytime collaboration. Please accept my apologies that we did not come to this realization before sending you the programming exercise. It's too late for me to edit the parent post, but I will clarify in future postings that we're looking for remote with up to 6 hours of time zone difference from PST. [1] https://www.noredink.com/about/team https://www.noredink.com/about/team
- p4wnc6 12y ago
  What if remote workers from other time zones are happy to work hours based on a +/- 6 hour time zone from PST? It's puzzling why there would be a specific band of time zones from which candidates are permitted to already be living, instead of a specific set of hours that you state in the job ad, asking that candidates only apply if they are OK working those particular hours.
  - santoriv 12y ago
    Yes exactly. I had stated that I was willing to be available during all PST business hours before I was sent the coding exercise. To be clear, I don't get upset if I send people my resume and I get completely ignored or if I fill out an online application and get completely ignored. That's pretty much par for the course. I don't want to make a huge deal about it, but I feel like there is a higher standard that you need to follow when you ask people to invest a significant amount of time in a coding exercise. Anyway, their product seems pretty good and they are one of the few startups that can legitimately say that they are trying to make the world a better place, so that's pretty cool.