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by gravyboat 9y ago
Why was this comment detached as off-topic? The fact that they do not respond to applicants in a timely manner (if at all) is important to people applying for jobs and something that others have commented on previously for a variety of job
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by gravyboat 9y ago
Interviewed here a few years ago and wouldn't recommend it. The interviewer I spoke with only wanted one solution (which they had conceived) to a problem they had and became very defensive when I explained potential engineering issues
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by gravyboat 9y ago
For anyone considering any of these jobs I wouldn't recommend spending too much time on the application process as they do not respond in the positive or negative and leave you in limbo.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
You may need to follow up with them, last time I got in touch with them the ball was dropped somewhere along the line.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
Interesting. I'm not sure why they would respond to people via phone instead of email but thanks for noting that they responded to some candidates.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
The current address is the email that I contacted and never heard back.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
Have you looked at GitLab's offering recently? It might be a better fit than GitHub.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
I didn't hear back in the positive or negative when I emailed this address last time so heads up for anyone applying.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
Are you planning on responding to all candidates that apply? I applied quite a while back and never heard anything in the positive or negative even after following up multiple times.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
Contacted their team in the past and never received a response (positive or negative) even after trying to follow up. Would recommend against expecting a response.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
Thanks for the heads up. It's sketchy enough they don't even offer healthcare until you have worked their 90 days, but knowing they wast applicant's time is a huge benefit.
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by gravyboat 9y ago
I would rather just run small businesses and side projects. Still a pretty high chance of failing, but if they do fail you still learn and it doesn't impact your bottom line that badly.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
Did you check out Stripe connect?: https://stripe.com/connect I'm not sure if that will work for your business but it's worth checking into.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
A recruiter contacted me a while back with a similar act, just completely clueless. I put out ridiculous terms and informed him of a handbook I've written to help him improve. He responded by saying he was interested but only if it had
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I tried to explain this once in an interview and the interviewer was not happy. They didn't like the idea of deploying a dozen different services. They also didn't like my ideas around keeping the services relatively simple and sc
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I was running one of my projects on Vultr for a while and didn't appreciate the random restarts with no warning. Ended up using DO for my next project. I hope that DO reduces their prices, right now they're getting destroyed by Vu
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I encountered the same problem with restarts you did, though I only had 4 in ~8 months. They gave no advanced warning and simply notified that my instance had been restarted which was extremely unprofessional to me.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I was hosting a project on a vultr VPS and they rebooted my instance more than 4 times in 8 months. Definitely wouldn't recommend them.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
Pretty much. All of these SF startup CEOs just rotate around companies and start new ones. The whole mentality there from the (moronic) angel investors to the people they hire as CEOs propagates and rewards the culture common at these shops
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by gravyboat 10y ago
Yawn, another one of these? Sure some companies look at your GitHub profile, but this post is just conjecture based on one person's very small bubble.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
The recruiters at Amazon are pretty bad in general. They don't give enough details about positions, salary, or anything else to make it worth discussing. I get contacted a few times a year and I always ask to just be added to the &#x27
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I actually wrote a short field manual on this (partially as a joke) to try and sell to recruiters that gives them tips about actually, you know understanding the candidate they are contacting.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
Why would she lie about something like this? If she's lying then her career will be wrecked, and Uber will hit her with a defamation lawsuit that will ruin her life and finances.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I was also going to say a Zojirushi rice cooker. I've had mine for 6 years and it shows no signs of slowing down. Super easy to clean and makes amazing rice every time.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
Probably because a good number of people have worked for SF startups and seen this behavior first hand.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
This read like a poorly research article where the people running the company didn't even see what makes remote work feasible before allowing it. The goal seems to be to get a lot of page views via controversy so you would scroll to th
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I recognize that it might fail and ensure that failing is not the end of the world. If the project does fail then I make sure I learn from it for future projects. I wrote a blog post on a failed project a while back that covers some of this
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by gravyboat 10y ago
All of these things are fair though. * Paypal charges the merchant more (in terms of fees in some cases, holding funds, and time wasted dealing with PayPal's nonsense), so why wouldn't they inform customers of this? If you have a
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by gravyboat 10y ago
Gotcha,thanks for the additional explanation.
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by gravyboat 10y ago
I agree with this. For an open source project it's just going to be ridiculous. "Hey you know all that free work you already do? Well now you can troubleshoot some user's OS issues as well! Doesn't that sound like fun, w

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