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"Meet the Nerds"

• TheGRS 11y ago
  That made me cringe a little. Especially when the rest of the page seemed pretty professional (save for the now industry-standard cartoon icons everywhere).
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• jsingleton 11y ago
  Nerds seems to be a well used term there [0,1]. I agree that I'd prefer something else. Maybe they got the same guys that did the new logo to come up with it? [0] http://nerds.airbnb.com/ http://nerds.airbnb.com/ [1] https://twitter.com/AirbnbNerds https://twitter.com/AirbnbNerds
  • frontendbeauty 11y ago
    We've called ourselves "nerds" since the very early days, at least 5 years.
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• strange_quark 11y ago
  "Look how diverse our company is"
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• optimusclimb 11y ago
  The "nerds" make 120-200k a year. The 25 year olds that went to Arizona State and studied drinking, getting laid, and "business" make up to 300k a year doing enterprise sales for startups. The current culture is, "hey thanks NERD for geeking out on that distributed systems BS, really helped me out on my last sales call/commission." Then the "NERD" gets to wonder what the F to do with their life come their mid 30s, while said sales person is set. But yeah, let's keep calling ourselves nerds and allowing this to happen.
  • throwaway549 11y ago
    We also call ourselves "geeks," which is also quite bad, and we've done little to stop the media and industry rebranding us as "coders," a job title with little prestige or connotations of authority and professionalism, over our previous titles like "software engineer/developer/architect" or even just "programmer." Collectively, we're really pretty socially inept, aren't we?