ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. The first obstacle I found that weeds out many prospective hires (and by weeding out I mean they look at it, go "pffft" and move on) are HR practices and the companies' job sites.

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Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Fast forward to 1997. A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.

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Developer Algorithm Search Web 31

BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. There are other parallels-Google has an appetite for hiring PhDs.

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NDA Algorithm Equity Hiring 60