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Sounds like a dreadful place to work. You have to meet a bunch of people from over a dozen different departments, who you'll never talk to again? Meaningless mo
by db48x 9y ago
Sounds like a dreadful place to work. You have to meet a bunch of people from over a dozen different departments, who you'll never talk to again? Meaningless mottoes and personality tests? A scavenger hunt?! All that crap before you even touch a computer?
Count me out. The information I need to start a job can be written on one side of a single sheet of paper.
- beckler 9y agoI don't know, I know about four people who work there, and I'm sure they will never leave MailChimp. They absolutely love it. In Atlanta, MailChimp is where everyone wants to work, but it's hard to get in unless you're seriously great at what you do.
- mjmasn 9y agoJust on your personality test point, the Birkman Assessment mentioned in the article is absolutely the pinnacle of personality assessment. It's not like the meaningless toy tests like MBTI/Hogan/16pf you may have experienced before. It covers the usual motivation and behaviour pieces but it is unique in surfacing the underlying needs and stress reactions which often have no correlation to your visible 'normal' behaviour that other people see. Really helpful in determining your approach to different members of the team as well as giving you the common language to explain your needs to other people. In short it's both insightful and actionable for you and your team members in your personal and professional life. Plus it's stable over time, so you take the assessment once and have 20+ years of value from it. Disclaimer: I work for a company that uses the Birkman Assessment but no relation to MailChimp other than as a user of their newsletter services.