SOCi | San Diego | Full-Time | Onsite preferred | www.meetsoci.com
Over the past 7 years SOCi has developed an award-winning SaaS platform for franchise brands and SMB agencies that solves managing social media and reputation at scale. We are looking for the following roles in San Diego to continue to our rapid growth:
As some others here have said and as someone who is currently interviewing candidates for a remote position, skills are equally as important as culture fit. A demonstrated ability to (successfully) work independently and with little oversight is an incredible skill sure to impress any potential employer.
So showcase those personal projects you've worked on, translate your work on them into how you'd be successful working with a remote team, and start finding companies to apply for. I'd try to find ones that have hired Canadians first if possible (many distributed teams will list the many locations their company is currently in on their careers page).
SOCi is a leading SaaS enterprise solution for large-scale social media management and one of the fastest growing technology companies in San Diego. We have recently closed an $8.5 million Series A financing to fund our rapidly growing sales and marketing efforts and to expand our cutting-edge technology development.
Winner of the San Diego Innovator of the Year (http://on.mktw.net/ZULfCc) and named a San Diego Venture Group 2014 and 2015 COOL Company, SOCi brings Big Brand social media campaign and promotion capabilities to small businesses and their service providers. SOCi, Inc. is based out of downtown San Diego.
Our SaaS platform solves social media management at scale for multi-location brands and marketing agencies who need to manage thousands of social profiles from a single location. We’re looking for a QA Engineer to help us continuously deliver quality, bug free software in a fast-paced startup environment. You will need to have a natural itch to try to find new and innovative ways to break things and test for scenarios others can’t think of. The role is highly technical – you are expected to review code, verify database states, write test automation scripts, manually verify end-to-end functionality and document reproduction steps.
Responsibilities
* Functional testing and code review of all new pull requests
* Working closely with programmers to identify problems in the code / functionality
* Working closely with client support staff to replicate client issues and write JIRA tickets
* Participate in full system testing before and after code pushes to production
* Write test automation scripts, test data generators and other useful test tools
* Have an uncompromising passion for quality and a sense of pride when a job is done right
Requirements
* Ability to read/write JavaScript, PHP and MySQL
* Solid understand of web application stack from client-side to server-side
Send your application and resume to careers@meetsoci.com
SOCi is a new age social media management platform that is reinventing the process of managing hundreds of social media accounts in a time-efficient manner. We are looking for a QA Engineer to help us keep delivering quality, bug-free software to our users and partners while retaining our fast development process. Apply at https://soci.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=15
We are also on the lookout for Sr. Software Engineers for LAMP / BackboneJS, fulltime, remote or onsite. Contact careers@meetsoci.com.
Interview process is a 90 minute Skype call with a couple of coding exercises plus a meet-the-team (onsite or group call).
I think that assumption is incorrect. Looking at the multitude of posts on "why can't programmers program"[1] (in the sense of not having solid fundamentals) and the difficulty of finding, let alone having an interview process that is reliable able to identify them, I would say there is a large amount of confusion distinguishing those who can weld and master metallurgists.
People can spend a decade or more in the industry as working "programmers" and fail at writing FizzBuzz, let alone understanding basic relational theory or how a their chosen stack works. And then we try to patch it over with more tooling or new languages that are supposed to be less error-prone or somehow magically allow us to build out programming teams out of coders rather than teach them solid CS fundamentals and sound development practices.
The problem is that to someone not trained in a craft, even a beginner would appear to be able to perform that craft; only someone with deep(er) understanding of metallurgy would be able to recognize that said welder has no idea of what they're doing and is just following a set scripted actions; what's more harmful is that said beginner is lulled into believing they are actually an expert whereas they're really an Expert Beginner[2].
SOCi is a new age social media management platform that is reinventing the process of managing hundreds of social media accounts in a time-efficient manner. Winner of the San Diego Innovator of the Year (http://on.mktw.net/ZULfCc) and named a San Diego Venture Group 2014 and 2015 COOL Company, SOCi brings Big Brand social media campaign and promotion capabilities to small businesses and their service providers. PHP / MySQL / Backbone / Jasmine / NodeJS.
Software Engineer
We’re looking for someone who considers programming an art form; someone who loves writing elegant code and has an innate need to create components that are easy to reuse and work well together. The thought of copy-pasting coding should cause you to shiver in horror, and badly formatted code should give you nightmares.
We’re looking for someone who is meticulously detail-oriented. You will need to have a natural itch to try to find new and innovative ways to break things and test for scenarios others can’t think of. Willingness and patience to execute manual tests repeatedly, coupled with an innate drive to try and automate everything so the former is not needed will make you an excellent candidate.
I only recognized 3 of the tunes, but still got 26 perfect score. Nothing to do with familiarity with the material, just whether you can hear notes being in the correct key or not.
That's my point. You can't really know if they are correct. You just guess, if the notes are fit or not to the song. We could argue that what really tests is the listeners ability to recognize dissonant notes if all songs in the test don't have dissonant notes in them. But then its not a pitch sense test. There was one other test that I took that I see more accurate than this one: http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/ This one measures how little a difference of pitch can you note. It starts with a difference of 12hz, and ask you to tell if the second tone is lower or higher in frequency than the first. When you have answered a few of them correctly, it reduces the difference of pitch. I remember I was able to recognize differences of 0.75Hz before I started to fail to answer correctly.
