My group at Yahoo! is looking for talented people to join our team. We build tools and infrastructure for developing Web services in the company (the HTTP kind, not the SOAP one), and we also set standards and provide guidance to developers when designing them. We are part of the Yahoo! Open Strategy group.
We’re looking for different profiles:
- People with knowledge of Web services technologies and concepts: XML, JSON, HTTP, resources, etc.
- Developers coding in C/C++, who understand HTTP; knowing how to write PHP, Perl, Java extensions a plus
- Developers coding in C/C++, who understand HTTP and in particular authentication; knowledge of Apache internals a plus
- A product manager for those tools and working with the rest of the company
If you’d like to join the fun, drop me an email.
If you want to learn more about Yahoo! Open Strategy, here’s the presentation from our CTO at the Web 2.0 Expo:
And below is a deeper look provided by Neal Sample:
I received a number of invites to join NotchUp, a site similar to LinkedIn, but with one big difference: you, as a participant, set a price company should pay to talk to you about a professional opportunity. I joined to check what it was like and I invited a couple of people who might be interested in this. But about five minutes later, I realized that it doesn’t make any sense.
There are essentially two cases, if a company wants to talk to you:
- This is a job that you would like to take: in this case, you really want to talk to them, and you don’t want them to wonder whether they want to spend some money just to get your email address; what you want is the job, not money for the interview.
- This is a job that isn’t of interest to you: you’re not going to start moonlighting for a new company, Interviews With John Smith LLC, whose business model is to do interviews with companies you know you’re not interested in.
The main attraction is that they promise you a 10% cut on the money that your referees will make. So if you want to try to get rich by doing interviews, and make me rich by the same token, leave a comment below and I’ll send you an invite (it looks like the service is still invite-only).
