We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people — many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
We’ve been continuously hiring for this position as we’ve been building up our Windows browser team and have found the positions relatively difficult to fill.
Hi Bill, I had a brief exchange with you about the Windows role a couple of months ago and you encouraged me to apply and mentioned you would flag it with the DRI - but I got a rejection. How long should we wait before reapplying and do you auto-reject if we have a recent rejection at the CV phase?
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
We see overwhelming amount of interest each day a role is open on our site. In order to get through the applications (we read each one), they can't stay up for too long.
We might open the role back up next month for more applications, so keep an eye on next month's Who's Hiring post.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
Hi Bill, I've seen your Senior SWE, Windows Desktop App position listed for quite a while, given it seems you're having a hard time filling it would you be willing to loosen the "consumer facing" part of the requirements? I'm very interested and I believe I'm an excellent fit in every other way.
I've built very sophisticated C# applications that simplify complex lighting algorithms to allow users to simply control the light timing in an automated fruit sorting machine. Unfortunately as these applications were used by business customers it seems I don't tick that "consumer facing" box despite over a decade of experience building C# UIs.
Not for nothing, but I applied a couple of years ago with similarly almost-perfect but not-customer-facing app experience, and all the other qualifications they were looking for, and was rejected with no followup, not even an initial screen.
Normally I wouldn't care, but it sticks in my memory and has soured me on applying again, because I don't know how I could get any closer to what they're asking for without literally working the job they have posted. It makes me think perhaps the posting is not accurate or complete in some way.
I was hired for a similar role with a better salary within a few months, so I don't think it was something fundamentally wrong with my application or resume. Though, granted, the market was different then. Maybe I somehow totally biffed the three or four questions they asked.
I would encourage you to apply! We have a thorough review process and one of my colleagues will definitely read your application. I'll flag it with the DRI for the role and tell them to keep an eye out.
I wouldn't make assumptions. When I talked with Duck Duck Go about their browser, they had a very particular idea about what it was supposed to do. Their needs are probably a bit more complicated than you're assuming.
I also wouldn't assume that anyone is overqualified. They seemed rather particular about who they wanted to hire. (Although, given the current market, a C# job opening staying open for a long time says a lot.)
Hi Bill, I applied like three weeks ago on that "Windows Desktop App" position! I haven't got any reply since. I am sure you folks get pretty decent applications but I think my profile deserves at least a reply from your side! I fit perfectly, 1O YOE, of which 5 as a SW for MSFT. An MCSD in UWP apps, 2 MSc..ect!
Your talent acquisition team doesn't reply to my messages neither!
I genuinely like the project and would love to work on it ft. Can I at least have a chance?
Hope it goes better for you than for I! 6:00pm last night - applied. 4:00am this morning - rejected. Mind you, it was for the Brand Manager, Ad Production role, but I thought I was pretty decent fit!
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
We really have openings, yes. We've made multiple hires for these open roles and continue to grow the team. We don't use any "live" project examples or farm out real work as a part of these interview tests.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
There's nothing in the post or in most of the application that informs the applicant there's a restricted list of locations they are allowed to apply from. Only the very last question in the application displays the list of the available locations.
Your site says you have people from all over the world (including "DuckDuckGo is a remote company of 200+ passionate people from over 15 countries.") - but then it looks like you're limited to these?
United States
Australia
Canada
Czechia
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Poland
Slovakia
Spain
United Kingdom
Is that right?
For what it's worth, I can get to London by train faster than a lot of people in the UK can...
It would be great if you could mention on your job adverts the list of remote locations you have available instead of "except where specific locations are noted" as this list doesn't show up until the very end of the application which is disappointing when you fill out the full application only to see you location (New Zealand) isn't on the list.
Are you hiring for the Senior IT Operations Engineer (Remote) role? if the answer is yes, is that open to Mexico as well? I saw at the bottom of the application that the job is only for selected countries
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
Every month in the 'Who is hiring?' posts, DuckDuckGo consistently lists job openings. When you go to their hiring page it looks very interesting. You get paid on their "Test" projects. I am not sure if those "Test" projects are live actual requirements that they make applicants do, then they will eventually not hire. OR these job postings are just to maintain their visibility creating the impression of ongoing expansion without all positions necessarily being filled.
Thanks for your interest in our roles and the questions you’ve raised here. Here’s a quick answer:
— Test projects: these are not live requirements that we get people to work on. We create these test projects as a way to assess people’s skills and how well they fit with what we need for the role. We like to pay people for these as we recognize that not everyone will be successful in the process, but we still want to compensate them for their time in some way.
—ongoing job openings: we only post job openings for roles that we’re actually hiring for at the time. We often post a single job opening for a role where we’d like to hire several people. So they can sometimes stay open for quite some time!
—LinkedIn openings vs our career page: we post every live role we have on our own careers page, but only some of them on LinkedIn, so there can often be a difference between the live roles on both sites.
We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.
Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people — many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.
Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...
Senior Android Engineer - - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/57eea673-2519-4afc-a9a...
Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...
Product Designer (Senior, Lead or Principal) $178,500 - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/06c4084f-8044-4837-b1d...
https://duckduckgo.com/careers
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