Knewton Tech Blog

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Knewton (www.knewton.com) | Frontend engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE | FULLTIME Apply and job description: https://jobs.lever.co/knewton/6d27adf4-f6db-4f62-84a7-a891eae53c47 Learn more about us: https://www.knewton.com Learn more about working at Knewton: https://www.knewton.com/about/careers/ Knewton is on a mission to personalize education for students around the world. Education companies worldwide use the Knewton infrastructure platform to power course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. We have been recognized as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 100 Best Places to work by Crain’s New York Business. Our team is seeking a Front End Engineer to help us harness the world's educational content into the Knewton platform. We create beautiful tools that play an integral part of the integration process with our enterprise partners. If you like creating great apps that delight users and make their lives a lot easier (and maybe want a little taste of full-stack development and playing around with backend service at scale), this is the job for you! Highlights of the job: -Build beautiful web tools using a variety of modern front-end frameworks as part of a full stack team -Be a leader of Knewton's Front End community and continuously improve standards, practices, and tech -Become an industry luminary – we are open sourcing our projects/codebase -Main FE stack: React, Redux and we are currently…

Knewton: New York (NYC) - FULLTIME, INTERN, H1B http://knewton.com We're a funded startup seeking passionate software engineers interested in machine learning, distributed systems, and "big data" problems. Investors include Peter Thiel (Founder's Fund), Reid Hoffman, and Pearson, a leader in educational publishing. We were recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 25 best places to work by Crain’s New York Business. We have about 80 employees right now. We pay full market salaries plus stock options, and you can take as much vacation as you need. Hours are typically 40-50 per week. Our product is an adaptive learning platform, which means we use machine learning and "big data" techniques to deliver an individualized education to each student. Our eventual goal is to make a high-quality, adaptive education available to everyone in the world. The product is used by Arizona State University right now, and we recently signed a deal with Pearson to power many of their products. We're looking for new members of our technical team who are interested or have experience in: * Using technology to democratize education. * Machine learning and data mining, including approaches such as probablistic graphic models (PGMs), Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Monte Carlo Markov Chains. * The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals and performance optimization. * Big data processing using NoSQL techniques like Cassandra, Hadoop,…

Knewton @ Wiley | Full-stack, Frontend, Backend, SRE | Full Time | ONSITE (Hoboken, NJ) & REMOTE (US) | https://www.knewton.com/ Knewton is an affordable adaptive learning platform for higher-education. We're competing with product like ALEKS or MyMathLab. We're looking for software engineers to help improve our product! As the company is not 100% remote, remote roles are better suited for more experienced candidates. We're part of Wiley, and we are working as an entity within the tech org. We have a flexible work schedule with WFH days, a collaborative culture, and a strong commitment to building a product with a measurable impact on student outcomes. Tech Stack: * Frontend: React/Typescript, node * Backend: Java/Python, PostgreSQL * Infra: Mesos/Marathon (working on Kubernetes!), CI/CD, Gerrit Hit us up at [email protected] !

Knewton | NYC | ONSITE | https://www.knewton.com/about/careers/ Knewton is the world’s leading adaptive learning technology provider with the mission of bringing personalized education to the world. We are looking for the following: Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Systems, Data Scientist Favorite Tools: React, Java, Python, Ansible Perks: Unlimited Vacation, Health/Dental/Vision, Free Lunch, Stock Options Process: (1) Culture Screen, (2) Tech Screen (3) Tech Interview Questions? [email protected]

https://www.knewton.com | Union Square, New York City | Full-time | Onsite We're hiring multiple engineering positions across product, infrastructure, data, and platform. Apply on our careers page and mention you saw Jon's post on HN https://www.knewton.com/about/careers/ Knewton is on a mission to personalize education for students around the world. Education companies worldwide use the Knewton infrastructure platform to power course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. At Knewton, we use small, cross-functional teams to solve difficult challenges with real-world implications. Teams comprise a range of technical, mathematical, educational, and design specialists unified by a passion for improving education. Knewton serves over 10 million student worldwide and has offices in New York City, London, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo.

Knewton - New York, NY - https://www.knewton.com/about/careers/ Knewton is personalizing learning for students using our adaptive learning platform. Leveraging big data and machine learning, Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop better products. Knewton was named a "Crain's 2015 Best Place to Work" and we have offices in NYC, London, Tokyo and Sao Paolo.

We are! Crossposted from this month's hiring thread: Knewton (Union Square, NYC, full-time) is hiring for the following: -> Software Engineer -> Infrastructure Software Engineer -> Data Scientist -> Adaptive Instruction Analyst http://www.knewton.com/jobs/ ===== Knewton is building the world's most powerful adaptive learning engine, with the goal of making personalized and engaging education available to all. Knewton has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 25 best places to work by Crain’s New York Business. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with and learn from the world's best engineers and data scientists. ===== On a personal note: working for us means you'll get free dinner, drinks, coffee, the benefits you'd expect from a mature company (health/dental/vision, group deals on gym memberships, 401(k)), and the great perks you'd expect from a small company (our ping-pong tournament starts next week, our happy hours start every Friday at 5:01pm, and our vacation policy is limitless). We're also pretty flexible about getting work done. We all work remotely to some degree (I work from Miami every other month, and we have devs in Hawaii and Colorado), and those on our team who weren't impacted by Sandy are working at coffee shops, libraries, and apartments across the five boroughs. Feel free to ask me any questions @achompas on Twitter.

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Hi Joel -- quick search in response to your comment: http://www.knewton.com/careers/ http://www.shopify.com/careers http://www.quirky.com/about/careers

People who speak English as a second language very well, in my experience, make fewer grammatical errors than native English speakers like myself. This is because they've taken the time to learn the correct grammar rules, and are also careful to apply these rules in speaking. This was a problem for me when I took the GMAT exam, because there is a grammar section there that's based on some formal grammar rules that I wasn't aware of. For example, look at the example sentences for Rule #5 at the end of this article: both sentences sound correct to my ear: http://www.knewton.com/blog/gmat/2011/06/14/what-to-memorize-for-the-g…

Homework is the problem - it burns people out, and not just engineering students, but everyone k-12 as well. I'm a supporter of the flipped classroom model, it makes a lot of sense and is a real solution to this exact problem. http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom

<personal opinion based on many conversations> Teachers and administrators think that such changes will lead to lower salaries or outright loss of jobs.</personal opinion> As someone in the field, I can understand their concerns from a political perspective. From a political perspective, if technological improvements can provide an education that is comparable to current standards then there will be politicians that argue we can drastically reduce our number of teachers and administrators and save taxpayers a lot of money. From an educational perspective, even if we were to implement all of the technological solutions that we could there will still be plenty of need for teachers. Such implementations would change the role of teachers, but not eliminate the need for them. The closest cases of such changes are "flipped classrooms". Knewton has an infographic that covers the basics - http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/