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It’s tech hiring season again at Wikimedia!

We’re looking for at least some people to be here at our San Francisco office, but remote development and system administration is also available (especially making sure we’ve got stronger timezone coverage for our sysadmins).

So all you out there who’ve been toiling in secret on your wikis and websites o’ doom, but always secretly (or not so secretly) wanted to work for Wikipedia — send yourself in to jobs at wikimedia.org.

But please, don’t let this be you:

When you’re applying for a job — any job — remember that your cover letter is a thousand times more important than your CV. We’ve got a stack of papers with the same keywords and degrees listed out… We need to know why you are interesting!

Be interested in the company you’re applying to and whatever it is they do.

We’re a heck of a lot more likely to hire someone who tells us that we’re cool — not only do we like being complimented (hey, we’re only human!) but we know that your interest in what we do will translate into your doing a more awesome job for us.

Don’t just tell us you’re looking for a software development job — so is everybody else! Tell us how you’re totally psyched to work at Wikimedia, ’cause you’ve been using Wikipedia for years, or you maintained a wiki at your old job, or you wrote a wiki package in LISP for fun.

What’s going to grab a potential employer isn’t a list of buzzwords, but some personality and a connection to the work. We want to see that you’re going to like working here and we’re going to like working with you.

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