[Baypiggies] Finding work

[Elan]

 <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote: "companies aren't always advertising all
their
jobs.  Beyond that, I think you need to figure out which companies use
Python and apply to them directly regardless of whether they're
advertising (I haven't quite gotten to that stage, but it's my next
step)."

Aahz, you are absolutely correct with this.  Many companies don't advertise
some/all/any of their available jobs.  This due to various reasons including
startups in "stealth mode" who don't want to widely publicize their
existence except through very targeted solicitations, or smaller companies
who don't have an internal HR or Recruiting team and who leave it up to
their very busy managers to get  job descriptions written and posted on the
careers site, or even larger companies that are constantly hiring the same
skill sets and so keep cycling the same job descriptions regardless or
whether or not the jobs are actually "active"... to name just a few reasons
jobs aren't always publicized or kept up to date.

So I am a recruiter (who has connected with and established relationships
with a few members here at BayPiggies) and I've adhered to the guidlines of
not posting any jobs here without first discussing with the moderator (which
I haven't even done to date mostly because I haven't thought of this forum
as a job marketing tool) and of course I wouldn't dream of posting unless I
was directly representing the company:-)... So in the spirit of community I
would like to suggest that perhaps we start a discussion thread where we
help fellow members of this forum who are actively researching new job
opportunities by providing information/intelligence/insight/etc. about any
Bay Area companies who widely use Python and who we know are hiring or who
have been hiring python developers.

If what Ive suggested is amenable to the Moderator and if it hasn't already
been done, then I would be happy to start the thread by providing the names
of 2-3 companies who I know are hiring or who have recently been hiring
python engineers, including a brief overview of the company and also the
best course of contact at the company for any interested parties.   It's a
tight market out there, let's embrace the spirit of community, and share
information that may more readily benefit someone else.   C'mon recruiters
too!  Karma isn't just a bunch of hooey.

Moderator? It's your call.  Assuming you give the go-ahead, I'll suggest the
following format:

-Company Name
-website if any
-location
-Brief overview of the company or as much info as can be divulged if it's in
"stealth"
-Known relevant jobs
-Best suggested contact (please only provide specific contact details if you
have that person's expressed consent to post his/her info, otherwise point
to generic job seekers email contact)

Cheers,
Elan

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009, Brian Harring wrote:
> >
> > The problem I've always had with CL is that the mentioning of python
> > is basically defacto for HR folk- you wind up seeing quite a bit of
> > "python would be great" for SA jobs that are mostly uninteresting in
> > tech, scripting rather then actual development- this of course is
> > exempting the front end work.  The front end work is mostly utilizing
> > framework xyz to do JS/CSS/HTML abc.  Not knocking it, it's
> > interesting work if you like the frontend. I'm personally more
> > curious where folks are finding the true backend work, the "twisted
> > backend that interfaces with the media store to serve out 100-1000
> > files per second".  The code that powers the architecture
> > essentially.  Best description I can offer, if it involves debugging
> > the lighttpd state machine (nasty piece, that), it's the sort of work
> > I'm talking about.
>
> While that's true, it's also very quick to sift through posts like that.
> In addition, it can be worth checking to see if they really want
> specifically UI coders; companies aren't always advertising all their
> jobs.  Beyond that, I think you need to figure out which companies use
> Python and apply to them directly regardless of whether they're
> advertising (I haven't quite gotten to that stage, but it's my next
> step).
> --
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