January 2013 - CSC Industry

Relay is hiring Co-op (S13) and graduating Software Developers
by Joe Rideout 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Hello! I was hoping you could help me get the word out to your members. Startup founded by two UW CS grads looking to hire UW grads and co-ops. Also there will be an info session with food. Our co-op job is posted right now so we're hoping to get the word out ASAP. Thanks! Joe ----- We're looking for super-smart hackers to join Relay <http://tryrelay.com/> and help build the future of mobile communication. *About Us* The mission - to help people have fun with their friends any time, wherever they are. Relay is an entertainment-focused messaging platform that makes it easy to share fun, visual entertainment (pictures, videos, animated GIFs etc.) with friends while chatting in real time. Relay is headquartered in downtown Toronto. Check out a demo here: http://tryrelay.com/demo *You* - Eagerly take on responsibility and get things done. - Pick up and employ new technologies quickly. - Build software fast. - Have an eye for beautiful visual design and user interaction. - Domain experience in any of the following is a huge plus: iOS, Android, Java, Big Data *Why Join Us* * Great Team*: Relay was founded by two Waterloo grads with engineering backgrounds from Google and Amazon. We are backed by top notch funds and angel investors including: Peter Thiel (Valar Ventures), The Social + Capital Partnership, Graph Ventures and Real Ventures. Our advisors include early employees from Google, Facebook and Palantir. http://angel.co/relay *Work on big hard problems*: Indexing and search: Indexing the best viral content from around the web and serving it up in real time. Media transcoding: Building the fastest media experience in a mobile messaging app - server-side transcoding of GIFs and videos into in-house formats, intelligent pre-loading and local cacheing of media. Big data: Helping people find the best things to share with their friends by learning about group tastes and applying collaborative filtering across the thousands of links shared throughout the Relay network. Real time: Our in-house messaging framework allows true realtime experiences on mobile including watching videos together in real time. Help us scale this technology to millions of users. *Competitive Compensation*: We offer competitive salaries to both full-time and co-op hires. Full-time employees will also be given equity. *Fun Perks*: Working at Relay isn't just about working hard - we want to have fun too! Various perks include game nights, after work beers, trips to startup events and conferences. *Central Location*: Our office is located in a hacker-friendly loft space at Queen/Bathurst in the heart of downtown Toronto surrounded by some of the best startups in the city. As one of our first co-op hires, you will have the chance to take on a large, real project, see how a small startup operates up close and write code alongside the founders. You will have the opportunity to make a huge contribution to the success of the company and see your work launch to thousands (soon-to-be millions) of people. *Technology* - Server: Play/Scala/Java deployed on SoftLayer - Client: iOS, Android - Social: On the bleeding edge of Open Graph integration - Analytics/Growth Hacking: Mixpanel, Flurry, A/B testing *Apply* Co-op: Look for our posting in JobMine on January 26th or email us at jobs(a)tryrelay.com Full time: Email us at jobs(a)tryrelay.com If you have a StackOverflow and/or GitHub account, please include a link in your email. *Meet us on Campus* Info Session - 7:30-9pm, Wednesday, February 13th, TC2218 Velocity Startup Recruiting Event - 6pm-9pm, Tuesday, February 26th, Quantum-Nano Center *Find Out More* http://tryrelay.com http://angel.co/relay [image: Inline image 1]

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Dropbox is coming to Waterloo tomorrow: Tech Talk and Info Session - Wednesday, Jan 22nd at 5pm
by Sean Lynch 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

We're headed to Waterloo for our first ever recruiting trip to Canada. Come by and learn more about how we build software at Dropbox. We'll supply the food, drinks, and giveaways. Wednesday, Jan 22nd 5-7pm, Davis Center 1304 (Optional) RSVP for the talk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/525072800859633/ About the presentation: Ever since Dropbox has launched, it has had deep integration with Finder, Apple’s file manager (found in Mac OS X). What most people don’t know is that Apple doesn’t actually provide any endpoints for third-parties to integrate with. In this talk, we’ll explain the low-level binary code injection techniques we used on Mac OS X to get the Finder to include Dropbox in the toolbar, sidebar, context menu, and over each file icon. About Dropbox: Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. Today, more than 100 million people across every continent use Dropbox to always have their stuff at hand, share with family and friends, and work on team projects.

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Bombshelter event - Bazaarvoice info session 1/22
by Elizabeth Nichols 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Computer Science Club Members! Please join us for this event next Tuesday! [http://www.bazaarvoice.com/files/images/products/conversations_infographic_…] Who are we? Bazaarvoice is now the reigning powerhouse in aggregating and enabling online consumer product reviews that take place outside the walled gardens of Internet giants like Amazon and eBay and Facebook. So if you review a product that you purchased from Best Buy or Target or Radio Shack or Staples, you are likely doing so via a cloud-based software architecture provided by Bazaarvoice. A few weeks after purchasing that product, you may have also received and filled out a survey via email asking you to rate your purchase according to various criteria. That, too, is managed by Bazaarvoice. Your word of mouth has been monetized. Your authenticity has been captured. Join us! Come and meet us! We will be at the Bomb Shelter hosting an info session at 7pm on Tuesday, Jan 22nd. Hear about the edgy things our software engineers are working on. Learn about life in the fabulous city of Austin, Texas! $100.00 door prize will be raffled at the end of the evening (bring your resume to enter!). **RSVP via Jobmine [Description: Description: C:\Users\kathy.smithwillman\Desktop\BV_Primary_FullColor_TM_RGB_v2.jpg] Elizabeth G. Nichols University Recruiting Manager o: 512.551.6836 m: 512-422-6979 e: elizabeth.nichols(a)bazaarvoice.com<mailto:elizabeth.nichols@bazaarvoice.com> Site<http://www.bazaarvoice.com/> | Blog<http://www.bazaarvoice.com/blog> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/Bazaarvoice> [cid:image002.png@01CDEDA3.6BF20E10] This email and any attachments thereto may contain private, confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying or distribution of this email (or any attachments thereto) by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto.

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FW: An Invitation for your student community
by Peggy Eichinger 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi there, Could you distribute the below please? Many thanks, Peggy Peggy Eichinger P. Eng. Regional Manager, West Toll Free: 1.855.533.4473 x37372 Cell:519.569.8028 peiching(a)uwaterloo.ca<mailto:peiching@uwaterloo.ca> www.hire.waterloo.ca<http://www.hire.waterloo.ca/> [Description: Wordmark_Web_or_Email_uWaterloo] HIRE WATERLOO From: University Relations [mailto:universityrelations@blizzard.com] Sent: January-17-13 2:16 PM To: University Relations Subject: An Invitation for your student community [cid:image001.png@01CDF496.42919000]<ur.blizzard.com> Special Announcement from Blizzard Entertainment's University Relations Team Blizzard Entertainment's University Relations team is hosting a live online Q&A session! We would like to invite your students and faculty to participate. Thank you in advance for your help in promoting this opportunity. Thursday, January 24 5:00 - 6:00PM Pacific Standard Time http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/8441647/University_Relations_QA-1_16_2013 Students may follow the link above to set an email reminder. To participate, just navigate back to that link next Thursday at 5:00PM (Pacific standard Time). We are excited to answer your students' questions regarding career opportunities at Blizzard, the gaming industry, the internship program, fulltime opportunities, the application process, and more. This is a great opportunity for students who do not get to meet us on-campus or did not get their burning questions answered when they did. Asking questions is not required, participants are welcome to just view the thread and absorb the information presented. About us: Blizzard's University Relations team consists of Lenny Grossi (Director, Global HR Operations), Cat Kocher (Senior Programs Specialist, University Relations), and Janine Tedford (Programs Specialist, University Relations). If your students have any questions, please direct them to our University Relations webpage (ur.blizzard.com) or Blizzard Careers Twitter feed (@BlizzardCareers<http://twitter.com/#!/BlizzardCareers>)! Email subscribership: The University Relations team uses this email list to communicate news and opportunities to faculty and staff contacts around the country. If you are not interested in being a part of this email list or if there is someone you feel we should add, please respond to this email. If your students have any questions, please direct them to our University Relations webpage (ur.blizzard.com) or Blizzard Careers Twitter feed (@BlizzardCareers<http://twitter.com/#!/BlizzardCareers>)!

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Free Supercomputing Talk (Lunch Included)
by Chris Gouge 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

On Monday, Feb 4, 11:30am-1:30pm, in the Laurel Room, South Campus Hall, there will be a talk about supercomputing, including an overview of the supercomputing industry, some of the toughest problems in supercomputing, "Big Data", and other related topics. This event is sponsored by Xyratex, and we will also be happy to describe the part that Xyratex plays in the world of supercomputing, and how you can participate. Officially this is our "Information Session" geared to prospective co-op students for the Spring term, but we've also made it open to Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Software Engineering majors who are nearing graduation and will be looking for full-time employment later in 2013. Lunch will be provided. RSVP at http://goo.gl/MTeoM Co-op job positions are posted on JobMine. Xyratex will be conducting interviews on Feb 14. Regards, chris -- Chris Gouge Software Architect Xyratex Tel: +1 407 829-3572 chris_gouge(a)xyratex.com www.xyratex.com blog.xyratex.com

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Y Combinator + YC Companies in Waterloo!
by Sonia Ryan 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hello! I wanted to share details for an upcoming event! Hope to see some of you there. Thanks, Sonia People, Culture, Outreach A Thinking Ape (t) @sonia (m) 778.994.2651

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Google is coming to campus!
by Meggie Smith 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

*Google is coming to campus! Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. It’s an enormous goal to accomplish and we need great people like you to help us achieve it! Interested? If so, we'd love to see you at the following events and answer your questions about our work and how to apply for full-time and internship positions with Google: Tech Talk When: Monday, January 14th, 7pm-8:30pm Where: South Campus Hall, Festival Room Come hear a round of lightning talks from a diverse group of 5 engineers. We’ll have an engineer working on Google Chrome; a product manager working on Bufferbox, a recently acquired startup in the Waterloo area; a site reliability engineer working on AdX, Google’s ad exchange platform; a software engineer in test on ads; and engineer working to change the world of telecommunications on Google Fiber. Googler Office Hours When: Tuesday, January 1th, 11:00am-1:30pm Where: TC 1112 Didn’t have time to stay after the information session to ask questions? Come bye TC 1112 to speak with Google engineer and a member of our campus recruiting team to discuss roles at Google and the application process in more depth. RSVP: Please fill out this RSVP form<https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVSV0RtL…>if you plan to attend. RSVPing helps us plan for things like ordering food, and it reduces sign-in congestion at the event, but everyone is welcome to attend. Either way we hope to see you on campus! Applications: Full-time and Summer co-op applications will be posted on JobMine. To apply, please submit your application by January 22nd on both JobMine and google.com/students. Resume and Unofficial Transcripts a are required. Interviews: Google will be on campus interviewing for full-time and summer co-op positions on Monday, January 28th and Tuesday, January 29th. To be considered for these interviews, please ensure you apply by Tuesday January 22nd, 2013. Stay in Touch: To learn more about Google, visit www.google.com/students/eng <http://www.google.com/students>. You can check out our student YouTube channel <http://www.youtube.com/googlestudents>, see details about full-time<http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/tech/fulltime/uscanada/>andinternship<http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/tech/internships/uscanada/>opportunities, and read about ourhiring process<http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/hiringprocess/> . We hope you'll stay in touch with us by checking out the Google Students blog <http://www.googleforstudents.blogspot.com/>, following us on Twitter (@googlestudents <http://www.twitter.com/googlestudents>), and checking out the student YouTube channel <http://www.youtube.com/googlestudents>. Please also feel free to add me on Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/1/110089114171626434158/posts> !* * * -- Meggie Smith | *G**o**o**g**l**e *University Programs, NYC | meggie(a)google.com | 212-565-2865 Circle me on Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/110089114171626434158/posts>!

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