The Sourcing.io team, a recruiting startup for engineers, writes about hiring, US visas for engineers, and Ruby development.
HN links it for the Engineer's Guide to US Visas, with a commenter citing its note on O1 visa sponsorship, and for the company's launch posts.
Hi, I'm the co-founder of Sourcing.io, and the engineer who built it. Stoked that we're on HN, and get the chance to respond to the engineering and hacker community.
Our introduction blog post says a bit more about our mission.
http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world
Believe it or not, I hate 'spam' recruiting emails as much as the next engineer. This is how I feel about them:
http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/recruiting-emails
We're not here to increase the spam problem - quite the opposite. We've put a number of safe guards in place against this kind of abuse:
* We don't allow big recruitment agencies known for spamming on the system.
* Our system is geared around referral based recruiting - finding people already connected to your company. For example, promoting candidates who follow one of your engineers on Twitter. This is the type of recruiting we live for and want to promote.
That said, there are definitely some things we should (and will) do.
* Allow developers to see, edit and update their own profiles
* An instant opt-out button
Let me know if there's anything else I can answer.
(I'm working on Sourcing.io.)
Apologies for the confusion here--we're going to be adding a much more detailed explanation of what we do to the homepage soon. In the meantime, this blog post gives a broad outline of what we're doing: http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world
Alex MacCaw [1] suggests that O1 requires sponsorship from a US company. My anecdotal and outdated experience matches his description.
[1] http://blog.sourcing.io/visa-guide