Just a heads up: The first thing the coding challenge asks you to do is choose a Node track or a Django track in order to complete a number of simulations including stuff about full-stack development. I was very confused as to what this had to do with Data Engineering infrastructure and tooling. I never did get clarity on that and we're not moving forward.
" In order to make those attributes truly irrelevant we have to correct for the massive, obvious influence they have in human decision making"
Which is exactly what blind-hiring / blind-auditions are meant to do. The problem, from my perspective having tried to implement it, is that it requires a real cognitive leap from people who are most successful for their social acumen and don't regularly make decisions based on hard evidence. Often those kinds of people have a title with Manager or Officer in it.
I'd suggest you try spending a little more time up front defining the what and why of the project before you start. If you don't define what winning looks like ahead of time it's easy to quit 5 minutes in when you're confronted with making tradeoffs but, don't have any context to under-pin those decisions.
Additionally, don't start with big hairy audacious side-projects. If all you've ever gotten to with one project is two days. Define a project that will teach you something that you think you can finish in three days.
Standing Desk: Just a desktop from IKEA and some pipe from Home Depot
I get memory foam bath mats and replace them approx 1-2 times per year. I also have a yoga block and lacrosse ball at my feet so I can change my stance.
I've a 48" monitor on a stand that sits perpendicular to a window so I can look out the window and change focal length while thinking
Headphones are super important to me Massdrop x HiFiMAN HE4XX I wear them even if I'm not listening to anything.
Keyboard is an ErgoDoxEZ with a mousing mode so I never have to take my hands off the keyboard
I use the Mission Control Productivity system and sometimes the Pomodoro Technique if I'm having a hard time getting into flow
in my experience residential internet isn't any less reliable than the commercial internet I had when I went into an office
A nicer microphone is a must have for remote work so that people can hear you clearly in meetings. I use a Blue Snowball
I don't have kids but, if I need to ensure my dog will be quiet for meetings I just give her a kong. My wife is just great about not interrupting me.
Just another media company but, we punch way above our weight class. We handle 10s of millions of uniques a month with only 3.5 Back End Engineers. We also go home on time and sleep through the night without PD going off every few minutes. Our code is mostly Ruby and Rails but, we have a little Go and Clojure. Having just returned from Lambdaconf we're getting ready to start some projects in Elixir.
Hey there — AT is a well-known brand (surprised to hear you support it well with such a small team!) so I imagine HR will get a lot of applications. Would you be open to me sending you a couple questions directly via email?
The job posting in the link does a good job of describing what we do and how (if I do say so myself). Short version; No heros, no assholes, do a good job, and build stuff that allows you to sleep at night under reasonably high load. We are also a remote first team and have an emphasis on learning and development.
The hiring process is mostly blind and is designed to match how we work on a day-to-day basis. There are no whiteboard sessions or brain-teasers.
We're a small team relative to the amount of traffic we handle. We value going home on time, sleeping through the night without pages, and having a profitable company
We primarily work with Rails but, also some Clojure and Go.
Check out the job description for a better idea of what working here looks like day to day.
Apartment Therapy Media | Backend Engineer (Rails) | REMOTE
If you're tired of commuting into an office just so you can put on headphones and try to ignore everyone.
If you want to see your work actually make it into the world and be seen by 10s of Millions
If you're tired of working with a bunch of "Heros" who think it's some kind of honor to sleep under their desk and keep chasing the next crisis
Check us out http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/were-hiring-backend-develope... We are a 100% remote Product team. Our app serves 10s of millions of uniques per month and we do whatever we know to be the best so that we can go home on time and trust the app to be stable.
We use a blind interview process until after the coding challenge.
Use Rails 4. Get things done. Sleep Soundly. Reach Millions.
We see 10s of millions of uniques a month, use the latest stable versions, go home on time, and don't get paged in the middle of the night.
Not all our tasks are very interesting but, we do them the best way we know, without ego, and while trying to always improve.
Even better our readers actually enjoy our site:
"This is, hands down, the best kitchen site on the Internet. I can literally spend hours on here because I never feel like there are 'filler' articles."
"In a sea of irrelevant, droning newsletters that flood my inbox daily, Apartment Therapy's is the one I always look forward to and never delete before reading "
We also use a Blind Hiring process so please don't include identifying information in your email :-)
