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whoisgregg on Jun 05, 2007

You may want to refer them to post their job listings at the Authentic Jobs site. I've heard good things about it. ;)

JBVisions on Jun 05, 2007

Loads. I always bin them without opening them.

This afternoon I got a phone call from an outsourcing company trying to place bricklayers with me. Apparently they did a search on development and assumed it was for housing.

thedudedean on Jul 28, 2007

Its always good to forward these things around till they find the right person.

maldenjen on Jul 28, 2007

Who's great with Flash and wants free, tropical vacations for life? Some folks at Harvard Business School have a design need that typical firms would charge big bucks for, but that isn't actually that tough for a Flash whiz. However, they have no cash to pay. Perhaps they spent it on the Private Island where they're building a private, luxury resort. In any case, as compensation for the design work, they are offering complimentary usage rights on the island. If an IB-er gets this gig, you HAVE to tell us!

JBVisions on Jul 28, 2007

Nice but you kind of need some cash to get there in the first place.

maldenjen on Jul 28, 2007

Well, you always need cash to get to your vacation spot. But I think a good negotiator would get it into the contract. Seriously, it's a real project. HBS people don't mess around much. It has low VC up-front with a high possible return. They're offering equity, too. I'm not good enough alone to design this for them, but I am a very good project manager and sales person. If a couple of you IB-ers have the chops for this, I am very willing to put a proposal together under the umbrella of my small business. ~mj

thedudedean on Jul 29, 2007

Their competition is a joke.

ZsaZsa on Jul 29, 2007

Do you really think they are HBS? Their vocab and grammar are not so much.

maldenjen on Jul 29, 2007

@DudeDean: I tried to see your link but it didn't seem to work. But what's wrong with the delliscay site? It looks nice to me...
I'm not sure what you meant. There's not a competition. It's just an RFP, right?

@ZsaZsa:I don't think biz school folks are really known for great grammar, unfortunately. I know quite a few HBS-ers. They are motivated, connected, and good at business, but not necessarily great writers. Also, many are foreign, with an excellent, if imperfect, command of English. Hey, didn't W go there? But it's not a terrible post. I saw a bad apostrophe. Not much of a surprise these days... :(
Certainly anyone can fib online. I'm here in Boston, so if they cannot, for example, meet me at an HBS office, then it's a problem. I would not get involved if it weren't legitimate. But I would also not bother with a proposal to them without a solid team, you know?

Cheers! ~mj

thedudedean on Jul 30, 2007

Its flash none of the text is in google. Its a blank page to google. LOL

maldenjen on Jul 31, 2007

OMG duh...

maldenjen on Sep 06, 2007

My friend is the Exec. Asst. at Rakuten USA. These new positions have just been advertised.

2 jobs open at Rakuten USA: Application Systems Analyst and GUI Designer

Rakuten, headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive Internet service companies, providing leading services in e-commerce, portal & media, travel, financial services, and professional sports. Rakuten has 3,000 employees in 7 countries, and yields over a $1-billion in annual revenue. Rakuten is one of the most recognized Internet brands in Japan, and owns the Japanese major league baseball franchise the Rakuten Eagles.

Rakuten is augmenting its Boston engineering team, located on the 49th floor of the Prudential Building.

Application Systems Analyst
Reply to: job-414519758@craigslist.org
Under the direction of the Director of Technology, the Application Systems Analyst is responsible for both new/migratory application system design and development in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java Servlets, JSP, and Java backend applications.

The application systems of Rakuten include a web-based client login interface, transaction processing systems, invoicing and payment systems, a corporate web site, ad serving and tracking, mass e-mail systems, as well as several backend and other OLTP systems. MySQL and Oracle are the current RDBMS used for these systems.

Required Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with MySQL or Oracle, or other compatible SQL and PL/SQL.
• Solid experience designing and programming a Ruby on Rails or Java web-based system either in an educational/research or business environment.
• Experience or familiarity with Unix/Linux, Web Services, XML/XSL, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, PHP, J2EE, EJB, Struts, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Strong verbal & written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.
• Familiarity with Rakuten's domain (E-Commerce and related).
• Experience, knowledge, and discipline in standard project lifecycle practices including source code versioning control and maintenance.
• Experience with open source projects preferred.
• Project management experience preferred (may be given the responsibility of leading projects.

GUI Designer
Reply to: job-414538610@craigslist.org
Under the direction of the Director of Technology, the GUI Designer is responsible for the complete design and development of all aspects of the application system GUI’s for Rakuten through all stages from concept to the production presentation layer. This includes HTML, graphical design (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), CSS, and JavaScript.

The application systems of Rakuten which have a GUI include a web-based client login interface, invoicing and payment systems, internally-used CRM and misc. tools, and others.

Required Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Design, or Related Field.
• Solid experience with HTML, graphical design (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with content management systems (CMS) such as Wiki.
• Experience with template engines such as Ruby on Rails, Smarty and Prado in PHP and Struts, Webworks, and Velocity in Java.
• Experience with AJAX.
• Solid understanding of Ruby on Rails, PHP and JSP to be able to work with code which contains it.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.
• Familiarity with Rakuten's domain (E-Commerce and related).
• Experience, knowledge, and discipline in standard project lifecycle practices including source. code versioning control, and maintenance.