Most of the US Postmaster team just got laid off, including Christine. I am still employed, but of the non-programmers, I'm all that's left in the US. *
This is a devastating blow. If people reading this have job leads for any of my folks...ex-folks...please drop me a line, or post in the comments and I'll pass it on.
Jobs needed: Sysadmin, spam fighting/abuse, postmaster-y stuff, deliverability, programming, mail gateways/MTA, and of course management. We lost a lot of people outside the immediate Postmaster team also: anti-spam programming, mail/MTA, database, etc.
These people are the best of the best...
...and I am going to miss them more than I can even begin to express. Eight years is a long time.
*yes, Madkins is safe.
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Anna-
Sorry to hear the news. That's a great group of people! I miss them every day. I'll keep my eyes/ears open. Glad you're still around.
Sean
Hi Anna, we may have an opening at LashBack in client relationship management. Drop me a line at cari@lashback.com. Hope we can help!
Thank you very much
Anna,
I am really sorry to hear about the lay-offs. I remember my days in the Hotmail Postmaster group very fondly, we were a tight knit group. I am sure your team has the same types of feelings. Anyway, we have an opening right now for an Email Delivery Specialist bu I think we are looking for someone local. I will email you the posting.
Thanks,
Travis Wetherbee
Hey Anna,
As said on here, glad you're ok but my heart goes out to the folks let go. Lay offs, as sound as they may be for business, never seem to have the same affect on the peoples' lives it touches.
http://www.bronto.com/company/careers
If anything looks appealing here, pls let me know and I'll push through to the right folks.
Thanks,
Chris Wheeler
Not sure there's any matches but they can check out these:
http://www.messagesystems.com/company/careers/
Thanks,
Mike Hillyer
Good luck to you as well Anna. It's never easy being the last of a long standing team.
Really sorry to hear that.
Anna,
Very sorry to hear about the lay-offs. Please let them know that Cvent is actively looking for talented tech folks. We are located close by in Tyson’s Corner and have former AOL people already on our team.
http://www.cvent.com/company/careers.shtml
Thanks,
Tom Haynie
Corporate memories seem pretty short :(
AOL was one of the first ISPs to discover that the cost of not having on-the-ball spam-fighting postmasters was significantly higher than them.
I really hope this doesn't mean a return to the bad old pre-1999 days when AOL was one of the dirtiest spam sources on the Internet - and I hope that the postmaster team all find alternate jobs quickly. Any employer with sense should be headhunting already...
That's terrible. We're definitely interested in expanding our anti-spam development and operations staff.
Anyone from the team looking for work in the field should e-mail me: williamsjj at digitar dot com
They can learn more about us here: digitar.com
Facebook is looking to expand its mail infrastructure. If you are interested in learning more, please don't hesitate to contact me: dale at facebook dot com. Our team is located in Palo Alto, California
http://www.facebook.com/careers/#/careers/department.php?dept=tech-ops
Anna:
Did the work get shifted offshore?
Frank
As someone old enough to remember a time before spam and the September that never ended, I did the unthinkable when I accepted a job at AOL (in Internet Access, which went away some time ago) largely based on the incredibly significant work you AOL mail folks had done.
Be proud of what you achieved always and don't let the demise of a company which lost its way detract from this.
Hiring folks, get these people while you can - not just the ex employees but the ones still there. AOL doesn't deserve them any more.
I know of a company hiring for an email forensics and deliver-ability investigator. Some anti-spam work but mostly trouble shooting for educational networks. If you are interested or anyone you know is a certified specialist with email contact me at ufophotos@gmail.com
They have a few positions that would be right up some of your smarter friends alleys.
Rick
@Frank: there is a team of Postmasters in India, and I imagine they will be hiring more.
@everyone else: thank you all so much for your comments and help.
Just updating you: I mentioned this to the company and they are interested in interviewing those who are looking for work at this time.
-Rick
I'm so sorry to hear this, Annalivia. :( You guys did a rather excellent job of keep spam and abuse from AOL down in the noise over the past several years. This is not good news for the Internet either.
I am a technical recruiter with a client looking specifically for someone with experience in deliverability and anti-spam programming. If one of your former colleagues from AOL is interested, please have them fax their resume to 1-703-574-7158. -Mark Allen
Martin
I annalivia, I have asked around and one of my contacts confirmed that they had a job open for a programmer. could you please let me know where your friends were looking for jobs so that I can keep asking in that specific area? I am in europe at the moment and could maybe find jobs for them here but I don't know if any of them is ready to move or wants to stay local
you can contact me : mebongue@hotmail.com or via linked in since I am in your contacts
I am very sorry to hear about this. I actually have a friend in france affected by the lay off so to a certain extent, I understand what you are going through (even if we are not as close as you and your team are)
Martin Ebongue
I'm sorry to hear about the layoffs at AOL, but we do have an opening at Yahoo! Groups that might be interesting to someone. We're looking for a senior programmer to lead our anti-spam efforts on Groups. It will require high level data mining skills (experience with Hadoop, for example, would be particularly useful).
If you know of anyone who might be a good fit, please have them send a resume my way, and I will get it the right folks here. Thanks!
- Gordon Strause
Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Groups
g o r d o n s t @ y a h o o - i n c . c o m
Wow, who knew that there was so much interest in us, eh, Anna?
I was the lead coder on the postmaster team; I wrote and maintained the tools that you used to request support, and perhaps more importantly, deliver that support. I am seeking gainful employment - feel free to email me if you're interested.
-David Zakar
david@zakar.com
Comcast's anti-abuse engineering team is looking for an operationally minded engineer. Go to http://careers.comcast.com, click search for a job, and search for "abuse" or follow the (insanely long) link:
HTTPS://CAREERS.TEAMCOMCAST.COM:443/sap/bc/erecruiting/posting_apply?param=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NkRDNzQ4NEJFQzYyQTYwOUUxMDAwMDAwMTgyODJGMEQmY2FuZF90eXBlPQ%3d%3d&sap-client=500
Hi. I am sorry to hear about the layoffs. I have a job opening for a webmaster/developer/designer with very special requirements here in Dulles.
Please feel free to pass the contact along to your community and I hope we can offer someone a good opportunity.
http://asi.careerhq.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3285741
Regards
Clive ROux
Executive Director and CEO
Industrial Designers Society of America