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Pfft. "root on your box" is so last week. Here at TripAdvisor, we give engineers root on EVERY box. I'd add "modulo the live site", but when I needed that, i

by sanj 16y ago

Pfft. "root on your box" is so last week. Here at TripAdvisor, we give engineers root on EVERY box. I'd add "modulo the live site", but when I needed that, it was made available. I think of this as the computer equivalent of the HP story of one of the founders using an axe to break into a storage closet so engineers had access to equipment over the weekend. (blah blah blah we're hiring blah blah blah)

smokinn 16y ago
When I saw the "we're hiring" comment I went to check out your site. I'm sorry to say but your careers section is pretty horrible. Your About Us page is blank: http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/chronicle http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/chronicle There's Learn about us in 30 seconds and More about us ... on the right side that seem like they should be links but they aren't. Your jobs page: http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobs http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobs is the standard outsourced and absolutely terrible job database search. No offense intended but based on your career section alone I would never apply there. I might apply if I met people at a networking event and they convinced me but definitely not based on your site info.
- sanj 16y ago
  You're totally right. In fact, we have a project underway to try to make it suck less. Having said that, if you're anywhere nearby, drop me a line and just come in for lunch. It'll be more compelling than any jobs page we could put up.
  - smokinn 16y ago
    I'm in Montreal, definitely not nearby. I'm not looking for a job either I'm just a nosy person. =) I'll take a rain-check though in case I do someday end up in Newton.
cperciva 16y ago
Here at TripAdvisor, we give engineers root on EVERY box. Ugh. I understand the principle of empowering developers, but some basic security would be nice...
- thwarted 16y ago
  Yeah, I wonder who cleans up after this. The guy who has root "just because we give it to all developers" and makes a mess and seriously breaks the production site is most likely not the person you want cleaning it up when time is of the essence.
- mahmud 16y ago
  I thought Tarsnap would be handing out S&W Model 500s as corporate swag for internship applicants. At least seems like that kind of place from the outside: jail yard metal table, BSD boxen, a Colombian silver Peso, K&R and Plauger, bottle o' jack, dot-matrix printouts of kernel panics, cute unmentionables left by last night's mistaken young thang .. "This is Tarsnap, Asok. You can break hearts but you can't break servers."
nollidge 16y ago
> Here at TripAdvisor, we give engineers root on EVERY box. Good god, I don't even want root on every box. If I've got root on something, that means I'm responsible for it. I don't want to own that many resources, because then I have to worry about them.

by sanj 16y ago

smokinn 16y ago

When I saw the "we're hiring" comment I went to check out your site. I'm sorry to say but your careers section is pretty horrible. Your About Us page is blank: http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/chronicle http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/chronicle There's Learn about us in 30 seconds and More about us ... on the right side that seem like they should be links but they aren't. Your jobs page: http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobs http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobs is the standard outsourced and absolutely terrible job database search. No offense intended but based on your career section alone I would never apply there. I might apply if I met people at a networking event and they convinced me but definitely not based on your site info.

sanj 16y ago
You're totally right. In fact, we have a project underway to try to make it suck less. Having said that, if you're anywhere nearby, drop me a line and just come in for lunch. It'll be more compelling than any jobs page we could put up.
- smokinn 16y ago
  I'm in Montreal, definitely not nearby. I'm not looking for a job either I'm just a nosy person. =) I'll take a rain-check though in case I do someday end up in Newton.

cperciva 16y ago

Here at TripAdvisor, we give engineers root on EVERY box. Ugh. I understand the principle of empowering developers, but some basic security would be nice...

thwarted 16y ago
Yeah, I wonder who cleans up after this. The guy who has root "just because we give it to all developers" and makes a mess and seriously breaks the production site is most likely not the person you want cleaning it up when time is of the essence.
mahmud 16y ago
I thought Tarsnap would be handing out S&W Model 500s as corporate swag for internship applicants. At least seems like that kind of place from the outside: jail yard metal table, BSD boxen, a Colombian silver Peso, K&R and Plauger, bottle o' jack, dot-matrix printouts of kernel panics, cute unmentionables left by last night's mistaken young thang .. "This is Tarsnap, Asok. You can break hearts but you can't break servers."

nollidge 16y ago

> Here at TripAdvisor, we give engineers root on EVERY box. Good god, I don't even want root on every box. If I've got root on something, that means I'm responsible for it. I don't want to own that many resources, because then I have to worry about them.