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How to Land a Job at Asynchrony Solutions
In the last three years, Asynchrony Solutions, a rapidly growing St. Louis-based IT consulting company, has doubled its workforce, increasing the number of employees from 77 in 2010 to 140 at the beginning of 2013. Sandi St. John, the company’s senior manager for corporate recruiting, says that number will rise to 169 by the end of April, and that Asynchrony plans to add as many as 40 software developers by the end of the year. According to St. John, the… continue…
How to Get Hired by Sony Computer Entertainment
Though it certainly helps, you don’t have to be a passionate gamer to get a job at Sony Computer Entertainment. One of the biggest things Marcus Walton, an engineering recruiter there, looks for is how committed you are to teamwork. Currently, Walton’s looking to fill job openings for graphic-engine game developers and system-game engine developers. If you’re interested, here’s what he told me at GDC regarding the jobs themselves, and how to handle the interviews and coding tests you’ll have… continue…
How to Be One of Go Daddy’s 300 New Hires
Domain registrar Go Daddy is hiring as it sets up an engineering hub in Seattle’s eastern suburbs, and it’s looking for new people to work at its other sites as well. CEO Blake Irving says the Seattle outpost will employ 50 to 65 people, out of a total of about 300 open positions company-wide. They include everything from senior engineers to Internet consultants to customer support staffers, located in its Scottsdale, Ariz., headquarters, Sunnyvale, Calif., Denver and other locations. Go Daddy… continue…
How to Land an Engineering Job at Turbine
Engineers looking to pivot their careers into the game industry would be wise to take note of Demetrius Comes. He’s an executive director of engineering at Turbine, a division of WB Games. But, perhaps more importantly, he’s an engineer who made the transition himself some 12 years ago after working in other sectors for nearly a decade. According to Comes, who spoke to Dice News at GDC, he finds engineers from the outside tend to be more disciplined when it… continue…
What InfusionSoft Looks For in New Hires
InfusionSoft, a Chandler, Ariz., company that offers SaaS-based CRM, e-commerce, social media and automated email marketing to small businesses, will hire 150 people this year to accommodate its business growth. And, indeed, its growth prospects are strong: In 2012, the company earned revenue of close to $40 million, and in January Goldman Sachs invested $54 million in the company. “We’re investing more in the product, and as we grow, we’re supporting more people,” says Lauren Tassiello, whose title is
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Insiders Share Hiring Secrets at These 7 Companies
Got your target list of IT companies to approach for a job? Good. Now start researching them, because the best way to score an interview is to become familiar with their hiring practices, culture and the skill set they’re looking for. We’ve been creating cheat sheets of sorts with a number of industry players, compiled with the help of their managers and recruiters, so you can have the inside track on the thinking that goes into their hiring decisions. How… continue…
Microsoft Games Hiring for Its Audio Team
Microsoft’s Games Studio needs to fill out its audio team, Senior Audio Director Greg Shaw told Dice News at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Redmond giant is looking for audio implementers and typically has 15 to 16 sound designers working in its Sound Lab. In addition to those team members, Shaw says the company usually has a need for programmers to modulate content, as well as higher level audio directors. Here’s what he told us when we… continue…
How to Land a Job at Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Networks plans to double the size of its development branch in Ann Arbor, Mich., over the next three to five years, and that means it will be hiring aggressively. About 195 people currently work at the company’s offices there. Barracuda will be looking for software engineers on the Linux side, mobile developers for iOS and Android applications, test engineers and technical support staff. “We just released our Copy cloud storage service that offers file-sharing and synching that allows you… continue…
How to Be One of AirWatch’s 1,000 New Hires
Mobile device-management vendor AirWatch has announced a $60 million expansion this year, which includes hiring 1,000 people, about 800 of whom will be in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. At least 65 percent of those hires will be in technical roles, according to Recruiting Manager Alison Birzes. To reach its goal for the year, the company will hire about 200 people per quarter. “We’re looking for a lot of engineers,” says Birzes. “We’re really going to be building out… continue…
How to Get a Job at Riverbed Technology
San Francisco-based Riverbed Technology sells network performance solutions, including WAN optimization, application delivery controllers, network and application performance management tools and cloud storage gateways. As the company likes to say, “We make WAN environments work like LAN environments.” It takes 2,700 employees spread across 40 countries — though the majority are in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, Calif. — to get the job done. Riverbed’s high rankings on both Glassdoor and Forbes seem to indicate that its employees are a happy… continue…
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