Goal:
Build a platform for hackers to solve interesting Computer Science challenges in a wide variety of domains.<p>Hypothesis:
Every problem solver has one type of challenge in a particular domain that he/she loves to solve. It could be AI, Machine Learning, Security, Databases, Algorithmic trading, etc. We're building a large collection of problems with progressively increasing difficulty from beginner to real-world problems/data sets.<p>How big can you get?
A room full of hackers is possibly the most valuable one ever. We're building this online.<p>Why should you work with us?<p>>Build a product that's intellectually gratifying and stay sharp forever<p>>Foundation brick in building a company<p>>Be amongst fighters. That's the best way to describe the team. I might be biased but it's one of the most inspiring workplaces I've seen. You should meet us to believe.<p>apart from the fact that we pay well, provide equity options and funded by YC, Khosla Ventures, Jawed Karim, etc.<p>What'd you be working on?<p>Your focus would be on two important metrics - Engagement (time spent and interaction) and retention. We obsess over users a lot (https://twitter.com/ksetyadi/status/303807178114990082) and been doing a bunch of experiments on our site which has made thousands of users happy.<p>Imagine if you grew this number by 100x? Your role is to build (or kill) components on the site that'll grow both the metrics.<p>>Analyzing engagement and retention metrics, feedback from users and base product decisions on them<p>>Running experiments/coding some components of the product to grow the two data points.<p>>Detailed product specifications that'll help designers and hackers to execute more ideas and make it live<p>What are we looking for?<p>>You have coded extensively in the past and continue to build stuff for fun<p>>You understand the way hackers think and what they enjoy, and you are able to translate ideas into how it should reflect on the website<p>>Explicit mention of some of the earlier products you've worked on - what changes you made and how they affected the business value<p>>Experience working in user growth teams in the past is a huge plus<p>>You are very numbers obsessed and the first thing you wake up to is an analytics dashboard<p>Interested? Mail me (vivek [at] hackerrank)