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| Attention Talented Ruby on Rails Coders, | |
| My new client is an exciting startup in the SF Bay area which has just closed on VC | |
| funding and is actively seeking to hire several senior-level RoR coders with 3+ years of experience. They are a web and mobile platform solution allowing artists (singers, film-makers, etc.) to sell digital content directly to the consumer. They have already established multiple celebrities as members and are rapidly acquiring more. The position offers competitive salary, benefits, and pre-IPO stock options. | |
| We are not looking for any contractors, telecommuters, or people who wish to work from remote locations. This situation may change after the company becomes more mature, but there is a strong consensus that on-site, full-time employees are required at this early stage. | |
| We have actually already filled the CTO and CIO positions with the company in record time, largely because qualified candidates were immediately aware of the unique market-position of this company and the dynamic potential for excellent growth. If you are not interested in a possible 'rocket ride' growth opportunity with equity, this is not the position for you. | |
| Multiple Positions for Senior RoR Coders with 3+ years of experience: | |
| Responsibilities: | |
| • Design, develop and support the code and architecture that power several APIs for Company's development of new Ruby on Rails Apps to support the growth and | |
| development of expansion. | |
| • Developer considers themselves a full stack developer and is able to take on projects | |
| that include back end development, infrastructure setup & configuration, and front end | |
| development. | |
| Requires Experience with: | |
| • Javascript, Linux, Rails 3.0.10, MySQL | |
| • Content streaming servers such as Wowza and have worked or at least have experience | |
| with cloud based server/hosting | |
| • Ability to work with Designers to place design elements with mobile platforms | |
| IF you are interested in these opportunities, please send a resume with cover letter explaining why you are a good fit, and for which position. Referrals, suggestions and unrelated resume submissions are always welcomed. If you feel that this email was poorly targeted, please feel free to let us know, but bear in mind that we work in many different industries and have placed many 'cross-over' talents. | |
| Best Regards, | |
| Nicholas Meyler | |
| GM/President, Technology | |
| Wingate Dunross, Inc. | |
| ph (818)597-3200 ext. 211 | |
| [email protected] |
The above are really nasty, very stupid comments which reflect negatively mostly on those who made them. I was initially puzzled about this, but the following medical study of serious mental illness in software engineers helped to explain... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1974658
Ruby coders are actually paid quite a bit less than most other engineers (starting salaries for Chemical Engineers in the lowest cost-of-living city in the USA were $10K to $20K above average compensation for Rubyists in San Francisco). The perceived demand is mostly hype.
Carol Schultz forgets that my firm is one of the leading retained search firms in all of Los Angeles, and has been for 30+ years. We were named as a Top Los Angeles Retained Search Firm in 2014 by the L.A. Business Journal and we also won the prestigious USTCRI "California Best" Award for Excellence in Business Ethics in Human Resources. I will say as a search professional that did his first Retained Search 26 years ago, Carol has about 20 years less experience as a retained recruiter than I do. What's even stupider about her comment is that my emails were extremely popular, with 200% to 300% higher open rates than usual. So, obviously, her comments are completely wrong. She is, in fact, a very poor recruiter, a poor sport, and a liar.
"I have said this before and will again: GitHub's workplace culture is toxic. It is crumbling from the inside, no amount of PR will save it." -- Julie Horvath, Founder of GitHub
@bf4 you've seen www.recruiterspam.com right?
Recruiterspam.com is a fraud/fake website. 460 software engineers who are complaining that they have
received 5644 emails from recruiters "spamming" them over a period of two years, actually is only one
recruiter email per person every 93 days. This is simple arithmetic. Whoever made that site up
is proving the opposite of his contention that he is "flooded" with recruiter email. Stupidest
thing I've ever seen and amazing how gullible people are that they just accept it at face value.
Here's an article written by another recruiter who is less kind in his criticism of obnoxious candidates:
http://medievalrecruiter.com/2014/08/05/recruiting-reality-check-bulk-emailing/
As far as dhh, his comments are much more the product of being sleep-deprived with a one-year old child than anything witty or insightful. One does have to question the sanity of a father who pursues a career as a race-car driver, at least questioning his wisdom and judgment. Others have perceived this immaturity in his conduct as well: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/what-is-wrong-with-david-heinemeier-hansson
sourcing.io open-sourced their recruiter-lint tool (source) (fork of job-lint). I ran the recruiter spam through it and got:
Did anyone ever get a recruiter spam site going? Recruiter Facts seems dead.