InterviewStreet is looking for someone to build and maintain our relationships with universities.
About us:
Interviewstreet conducts programming contests, or CodeSprints, that allows companies to identify great programming talent. The best scorers from previous CodeSprints have gotten jobs at Facebook and Quora, among others.
The very first InterviewStreet CodeSprint last October was exclusively for university students. There was quite a bit of behind-the-scenes legwork done to find our initial 3000 student participants; we connected with a completely haphazard patchwork of career centers, departments, professors, and student groups. It was manual and inefficient, but it got the job done.
We’ve been pretty busy working on the product, and those connections have atrophied. This is bad, and needs to be fixed while it still can.
We’ve decided to tackle the problem by hiring another person dedicated solely to universities. For our size, there are certainly cheaper and easier ways to build contacts: Mechanical Turk-style compilations, or more specialized 3rd party services that service that connection for us, but we’ve found huge value in keeping a direct, human link to the community; it was a student group president who successfully made the case for opening the CodeSprint to interns.
Moreover, the growth potential for university collaboration is unusually high. InterviewStreet occupies a weirdly unique, impartial position, where we’re motivated to properly develop the professional skills of students on average. It’s in our best interest for for seniors to participate in hackathons, contribute to open source, and develop skills that have a tendency to fall through the cracks of curriculum. More capable students leads to more jobs matched.
This position is open to both programmers and non-programmers: Our chief need is someone with supreme organizational ability, to keep track of hundreds of contacts across hundreds of universities. To apply, send an email to mike+campus@interviewstreet.
Here at InterviewStreet, we’re working on uncovering the best talent through interesting problems. Our job is to make sure our problems stay interesting, practical, useful, and more challenge than chore. Your job will be to make sure that students know they exist, and perhaps even make them better practical programmers. Help us cut through the increasingly antiquated constraints of geography and status, and instead democratize hiring to give good programmers the best jobs they can earn.
PS: CodeSprint Systems (systems.interviewstreet.com), a four five hour contest, is happening tomorrow, Saturday, February 25th. It features problems contributed by Stripe, Socialcam, and Thumbtack.
