Today I spent a bunch of time and beat Broken Age Act 2. I sadly couldn't find my name in the backer section of the credits... Oh well. Great game.
I grabbed coffee with Lindsay, which was nice.
In the evening I read through HN's Who's Hiring May 2015. These threads used to be such small startups, and now posts from the likes of Microsoft and IBM, along with three person startups, car building robot companies and other stuff, from all around the world. Pretty nuts to see the community growing.
I really don't know what kind of position I'd be interested in post RC, so I figured skimming through companies out there would be a decent first step. RC is also having a job fair on Wednesday, so this is an attempt to get my head in the game. The only criteria for showing up in this list was "could be interesting" with no filtering on me being qualified (some of these aren't even software jobs) or being a location I want to be.
From a quick scan of their post, and their website, I tried to summarize what was what.
- Thumbtack, thread, Trying to kill craigslist. SF.
- Imgur, thread, Photo hosting. SF.
- Socrata, thread, Data analysis for governments. Seattle, other places.
- NGP Van, thread, Software for the democratic party. DC.
- Elastic, thread, Open Source search product. SF / Distributed.
- Clever, thread, Educational software. SF.
- RAND Corporation, thread, Research. Santa Monica.
- BlueLabs, thread, Analytics for American political campaigns. DC.
- Walt Disney Animation, thread, Disney Animation wants a CTO... I don't actually believe this is real. Burbank.
- Dato, thread, Machine-Learning product. Seattle.
- MapZen, thread, Open Source Mapping. NYC + SF.
- Thread.com, thread, Online fashion shopping. London.
- Silk, thread, Dataviz as a service. Amsterdam.
- Stream, thread, Data Feeds as a service. Amsterdam.
- Mine, thread, Automatic image annotation. NYC.
- Make School, thread, School for replacing a Computer Science degree from a four-year university. SF.
- Uken Games, thread, Mobile game company. Toronto.
- Hipmunk, thread, Travel reservation tool. SF.
- Gradescope, thread, New tool for grading papers. Berkeley.
- Apsis Labs, thread, Small independent development firm. Seattle.
- FiftyThree, thread, Makes cool iPad apps. NYC + Seattle.
- IFTTT, thread, Programatic actions for the internet. SF.
- Lumi, thread, News reader. London.
- Storyworth, thread, Scrapbooking as a service. SF.
- CodeHS, thread, Coding courses in a box. SF.
- Aidin, thread, Healthcare data provider. NYC.
- GoPro, thread, Action video camera company. SF.
- Control Group, thread, Digital installations creative agency. NYC.
- Climate Corporation, thread, Software for farmers. SF, Seattle, St. Louis.
- Diane von Furstenberg, thread, Fashion e-commerce. NYC.
- PlayFab, thread, Backend-as-a-Service for video games. Seattle.
- Famous, thread, Javascript framework. SF and Amsterdam.
- Heavybit, thread, Developer focused company incubator. SF.
- RobinHood, thread, Investment management mobile app. Palo Alto.
- Potato, thread, Creative Agency. London + SF.
- NSFWJobs, thread, Software for Porn. Seattle.
- Double Stallion Games, thread, Video game company. Montreal.
- CodeAcademy, thread, Learn to code online. NYC.
- HotelTonight, thread, Hotel Reservation App. SF?
- Cuff, thread, Smart jewelery company. SF.
So many of these companies have horrible job posts or horrible websites. Hard to tell what they actually do or what they actually want. So weird.
Next I want to go through the RC company list (companies that have hiring agreements with RC) and see if there are any in there that I find interesting.
/Nat