The last month working at LinkedIn has been an absolute blast. I'm new to the whole "treating developers like royalty" thing, so that's taken a while to get used to. It's definitely nice, especially when the company gives you ownership of the things you're working on. Sure, there's schedules and priorities, but it seems like each and every engineer has control of their own destiny. As a consultant, I've been very impressed with the way I've been embraced and folded into the team like a regular employee. There's lots of team lunches, a tech meetup every now and then, and I even played hoops with a bunch of guys last night. This is probably the coolest company I've ever worked for.
Wanna have fun like I am? LinkedIn is looking to hire quite aggressively over the next several months. There's new faces almost every week and hopefully I can "hook you up" to be a part of the festivities. Below is a position that we're currently hiring for in the UI Engineering team. Working remotely is not an option at this time, you need to live in (or relocate to) the Bay Area.
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 11 million experienced
professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. We are
four years old, profitable and one of the fastest growing pre-IPO Web 2.0
companies in Silicon Valley.
LinkedIn is developing the UI infrastructure for our next generation
applications. This is a strategic initiative that will enable LinkedIn to
develop highly interactive and intuitive applications leveraging the latest
Web UI technologies. We are looking for a world-class software engineer to
work on this critical component of our infrastructure, in partnership with
one or more technical leads, the engineering and the product team.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
- EXPERIENCE:
- 3+ years of overall professional work experience
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SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- In depth and hands on knowledge of Java, the J2EE platform and
experience working with relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, etc.)
- A passion for UI frameworks: JSF and Facelets experience preferable.
- In depth knowledge of JSP, JSTL.
- Experience with Ajax.
- Experience with portal technologies.
- I18n experience a plus.
- Solid understanding of design, coding and testing patterns
- Ability to work in a fast paced, test-driven collaborative and
iterative programming environment
- Ability to effectively interact with product managers and other
organizational units such as QA and CS
- Excellent communication skills
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EDUCATION:
- B.S./M.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
I don't know if JSF and Facelets experience is still a requirement (now that I'm here 
), but a passion for UI frameworks and web development is. You should know at least two leading Java frameworks and have a lot of experiencing with testing web applications out-of-container. We're not looking for Java Developers turned web developers, we're more looking for Web Developers that know Java.
If this sounds interesting to you, shoot me your resume in an e-mail. Don't forget to include a link to your LinkedIn Profile.
The scene looks innocent enough - a 2-year old boy and his 4-year old big sister having some fun playing together. They're in the 4-year old's room, being awfully quiet. The sister comes up with a great idea - they clear some toys off the book/toy shelf (which is built into the wall) and use it as a launch pad to get to the bed. A blood-curdling scream shakes the foundation of the house 3 minutes later.
I don't know how many successful jumps they made, but Jack didn't quite make the bed on one of his jumps. Julie called me yesterday to tell me he'd gotten hurt and couldn't walk. Neither Abbie or he could recall how he'd gotten hurt. He laid on the couch for a few hours before Julie decided to take him to the emergency room. It was a good thing she did - x-rays verified he'd broken his foot.
It's not a bad break, but it's a small fracture on a growth bone, so he's going to have to have surgery on it. I've been out of town this week, so I didn't get a chance to witness all the fun. After the x-rays, apparently Julie was able to pry the story out of both kids.
I'm pretty impressed that my little boy broke his first bone before he was 3. He must be a Raible.
On Monday, I took Jack to the doctor to see about getting a cast on his broke foot. We thought he might have to have surgery because the fracture is on a "growth bone", but they never mentioned it while we were there. He picked out his favorite color (red) and they wrapped his ankle up in a nice little cast. He liked it so much he was able to walk out of the doctors office.
