Posted by Ian Holsman
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:54:00 GMT
What they need the most in the short term is someone who could do customer support between 3am and 11am, London time, so someone in Australia would be perfect
Do you happen to know anyone who might be interested in the job?
Ideally it would be someone who’s familiar with web technologies (web, DNS, e-mail servers), linux and maybe some web frameworks (Django, Rails,. ..).
The candidate would be doing customer support (answering tickets) but if they’re interested they could also do sysadmin work or even development work.
Posted by Ian Holsman
Wed, 23 May 2007 20:02:00 GMT
I’m looking for a technical person with a background in search technologies to head up a small team of developers in Dulles, VA (no prizes for guessing who).
you will be working with products like:
solr
nutch / hadoop
lucene
apache httpd
mysql
Ideally you will be a committer/member of the ASF, and have had experience in large web applications in publishing/search.
Your responsibilities will be to help make the products you support meet our application teams needs, and to coordinate your team
with the OSS groups involved and a similar internal team in Bangalore.
Naturally these will be contributed back to the OSS world if it makes sense.
Posted by Ian Holsman
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:33:00 GMT
Well.. I’ve set myself a new record.
My shortest time in a given job is now 4 months (5 if you count the 4weeks notice I need to give). (and yes it was ME pulling the pin, not the other way around)
I’m not going to bitch about it too much in a public forum.
my only remark/advice to other people.
If you hire someone, make sure he has a person to report to (and not have that guy transfer roles 1 day after he shows the new employee his seat).
The other interesting thing…
The resignation letter needs to have a ‘reason for leaving’ as part of it. anyone want to share some witty retorts? oh..my advice on that one.. don’t bag the company or people in it, as you will meet them or their friends in other roles.
Posted by Ian Holsman
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:24:00 GMT
I’ve spent the last 2 days at $NEWJOB, and just got a system login.
due to the security there, I needed to get authorized for internet access (another 2days they say).
and naturally they ban IM and some webmail sites (which they do due to viruses) fair enough.. running windows nowadays is a scary proposition for anyone, and I am guessing my productivity will improve 10 fold due to this ;-) but It will take some getting used to.
I still don’t have a permanent desk or computer, and due to the internet block I can’t even sit through the compliance training, I’m not sure how people who are not allowed to have internet access would handle this ;-)
What is sad about the whole thing is that I expected a longer delay.
What was your worst experience starting a new job?
Posted by Ian Holsman
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:11:00 GMT
Well.. I decided to look for a ‘real’ job. The kind where you need to dress up and see people.
I’ve had enough working remotely (I’ve been doing it for 2-3 years). While the money and freedom are great, the lack of face to face contact with people over 5 is getting to me ;-).
So.. if you have a position in Melbourne Australia (I’m not willing to relocate.. sorry) have a look at my resume