As a CEO, this sounds like an incredibly broken company model. It’s obviously working in a lot of ways, but why would you make it so hard to get things done once you’re at scale?
The c levels are oblivious. They think the company is one thing when its the opposite. This is what adds the to head fuck of working there, you behave how the ceo recommends and you will get targeted for dismissal by your boss more than likely.
I switched to a self-hosted (on AWS) inspircd instance with The Lounge running in front of it for friends earlier this year. It’s nice. The biggest issue was getting a native-like experience on iOS and Android phones, and discovering that safari doesn’t support notifications.
This is a very close-minded view. Professionals with psychological and/or therapeutic training can offer insights that you don’t have.
Would you refuse to work with a trainer if you were trying to improve at a physical activity? Would you reject a professional mentor in your field if it was on offer? Would you refute a doctor’s care if your physical health were impaired?
Also, it’s strange to refer to women as “females”, or treat all women as interchangeable, unless you run a crooked bar on a space station.
Interviewing is subjective. It’s about sitting down in a specific context and extrapolating, based on incomplete information, about a future set of conditions that will likely change when time catches up to them.
If we can start with the idea that interviews are a very blunt instrument, the process becomes at least somewhat compressible: it selects for people who recognize the parameters and perform well within that context. At best, that pattern-matches to success. At worst, it filters out talented folks who don’t interview well, but could code well.
Adding on the personal note side: I am the CEO and co-founder of GreatHorn. Happy to chat 1:1 if anyone's interested in learning more, either about the company or the role - or help find any answers I can't provide directly.
Went through Techstars with this team; their mail plugin alone saved us countless hours on answering common questions with keystroke-driven responses. Excited to see what they're working on!
GreatHorn (http://www.greathorn.com) • ONSITE (Boston, MA + New York City, NY) • Software Engineer • Full time
GreatHorn (Techstars '15) is a new kind of cybersecurity platform that secures cloud-based communication systems, detecting and stopping spear phishing and credential theft attacks in realtime.
This is an opening for a full-stack developer with a strong background in Javascript, CSS, SQL, and data stores of all kinds.
You'll help to define the future of cloud security, work directly with the founding team on a wide range of (we think!) interesting problems, and have a material impact on the growth of the product from the ground up. This role will work across the entire product stack, from database connectors to UX, and define new ways to capture, analyze, and report on customer security data, along with helping to grow a system of services distributed across machines, languages, and networks. The ideal candidate will have experience working with cloud services (Google Apps, Azure, AWS, etc.), as well as a history of working within startup environments.
I've spent the last 17 years working for (and now running) tech startups in Boston; the worst of them ceded all fun to cube farms, but the best of them never went all-in on the culture described here. Perhaps there is an east/west coast division here?
I look at the folks working alongside me now, building an incredibly sophisticated machine learning engine for cybersecurity, and I wouldn't think to draw upon a Lego metaphor for what they're doing. It's hard, substantive, mathematical work, and certainly not akin to playing with toys. I expect my senior engineers, sales guys, and marketers to be both protective of the brand we're building and understanding of the need to grow fast and expand our teams.
I live in Toronto and work independently. Productivity = prosperity, and so I live a life of work punctuated by relaxation an rest.
Of the tech companies that have tried to woo me, most fall into this infantilization trap and its such a big turn-off. If the reason I should come work with you is because you have a foosball table and on fridays you put a keg in the break room......I want to build things! I want to create. I will take your company and move it forward, I dont have time for ping pong.
Shouldnt the goal be to make your comoany rich, so you can be rewarded enough to buy the comforts YOU want, instead of lounging in the comforts of an employer as you work?
