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by bryanh 8y ago
We definitely believe the future of work is remote in nature. Physical locality is a vestige from days where manual work dominated -- knowledge work has no such constraint. People want autonomy, and not just in work -- but life too!
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by bryanh 8y ago
I'm glad he shared, it helps provide lots of context around candidates' viewpoints and experiences. Generally, we've found it best not to look away from the mistakes we make, and we make our fair share of them! By doing that
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by bryanh 8y ago
> randomly found and messaged people from LinkedIn We definitely do not do that. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I'll double check internally and make it super clear that isn't acceptable.
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by bryanh 8y ago
This is how I view it as well!
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by bryanh 8y ago
We definitely get a lot of applicants and of course that makes it very difficult to manage at times, but we're also very lucky that so many people want to work for Zapier. We try to be good stewards of that privilege -- which means bei
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by bryanh 8y ago
Yeah, that was unacceptable of us. No excuses. We've gotten better with our https://zapier.com/jobs/our-commitment-to-applicants/ .
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by bryanh 8y ago
I appreciate you sharing your experience -- our commitment to candidates includes regular correspondence so candidates don't go into a black hole of no response -- we know that is extremely frustrating. We definitely do get a lot of
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by bryanh 8y ago
That should be "Hacker News", perhaps a typo or garbled phrasing on my part!
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by bryanh 8y ago
Async is for the area between "Slack" and "Documentation" -- it covers things like project statuses, requests for comment, new feature discussions, company announcements, Friday updates and lots more. You can think of it
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by bryanh 8y ago
That is a hard question -- unfortunately it is something you can never be 100% safe on. In the end, you have to trust people to do anything interesting. Generally, we're very careful in hiring, we have basic internal controls, and luck
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by bryanh 8y ago
That is correct. It is our policy to use the tool I mentioned elsewhere in the thread which only contacts the references provided by the candidate -- I'll check internally to make sure no one is deviating from that process.
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by bryanh 8y ago
We use a service called SkillSurvey for reference checks. It asks the candidate for references in an automated fashion and then the feedback is collected fairly anonymously. We try to be respectful of people’s situations — EG: it’s never
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by bryanh 8y ago
Disclaimer: said CTO. Happy to answer any questions — though we definitely don’t presume we have all the answers, we’re constantly learning! We are also hiring remote engineers — https://zapier.com/jobs/ . Would lov to
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Zapier (YC S12) is hiring a VPE to grow our 100% remote team(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 9y ago
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by bryanh 9y ago
Zapier | Earth | 100% REMOTE | Various roles --- VP of Engineering This is a bit of a unique role as we're a 100% remote engineering team. So, if you've grown a team past 50 engineers before and are interested in exploring the cha
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by bryanh 9y ago
Like everything in life, encoded into those decisions are tradeoffs. Just relying on code on Github is okay -- until you realize some people don't like to work on non-proprietary code in their free time, preferring to spend it with fam
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AWS Statement: Processor Speculative Execution Research Disclosure(aws.amazon.com)
115 points by bryanh 9y ago|14 comments
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by bryanh 9y ago
If discovered, and colonized, then sure! ;-)
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by bryanh 9y ago
Zapier | Infrastructure & Security & Platform & Product Engineers | Planet arth | REMOTE (only) Zapier is sort of like Legos for the internet -- anyone can automate anything. We believe talented people can be found anywhere in t
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Zapier Is Hiring 100% Remote Infrastructure and Security Engineers(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 9y ago
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by bryanh 9y ago
Everyone at Zapier was hoping for AWS managed Kubernetes. Edit: Maybe we'll get it! https://twitter.com/AWSreInvent/status/935909627224506368
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Zapier Is Hiring a 100% Remote Product Engineering Team Manager(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 9y ago
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The First 5 Web Apps That Shaped the Internet as We Know It(zapier.com)
9 points by bryanh 9y ago|0 comments
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by bryanh 9y ago
This is not as intractable as you might initially think [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
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by bryanh 9y ago
Zapier | Infrastructure & Frontend & Product Engineers | Earth | REMOTE (only) Zapier is sort of like Legos for the internet -- anyone can automate anything. We believe talented people can be found anywhere in the world, not just SF
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Predixy – Redis Proxy with Cluster and Pooling Support(github.com)
3 points by bryanh 9y ago|2 comments
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by bryanh 9y ago
We will not adjust your salary downwards if you take the "delocation package".
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by bryanh 9y ago
Zapier | Infrastructure & Frontend & Product Engineers | Earth | REMOTE (only) Zapier is sort of like Legos for the internet -- anyone can automate anything. We believe talented people can be found anywhere in the world, not just SF
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by bryanh 9y ago
At Zapier we saw half the internet on AWS blip out for a bit (us too), but it seems to have been short lived. Approximately Jul 27, 2017 13:47:45 to Jul 27, 2017 13:59:33 (UTC) as far as we could tell.
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by bryanh 9y ago
At Zapier we saw half the internet blip for a bit (us too), but it seems to have been short lived. Approximately Jul 27, 2017 13:47:45 to Jul 27, 2017 13:59:33 (UTC).

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