[geeks] my head just went explodey

[sammy ominsky]

On Apr 3, 2005, at 18:01, velociraptor wrote:

> You must be sure and tell us when they have more job openings. :-)

That's a funny thing.  The president of the company hand-picks everyone 
who works there.  He never advertises openings, and new employees are 
all found by referral.  I have a friend who's been there a while, and 
told me he'd been trying to get me in for about 6 months.  One day the 
boss said OK and called me.  We talked on the phone for about an hour, 
then I came in the next day to meet and he made me an offer.  He never 
saw my resume 'till later that night.

Needless to say, it's a very interesting place to work.  I like it a 
lot.  I'm managing 9 programmers and 4 graphic designers, and working 
enough client billable hours on projects to pay my own salary (about 3 
hours a day).  The people he's hired are outstanding, to say the least. 
  They're either incredibly brilliant, or put so much effort into what 
they do that their work makes them look it.  I haven't figured out 
which yet.

It's also a *very* casual distributed environment.  The people who work 
in the office are there by choice, and the rest work from their homes 
in whatever city they happen to reside.  We're in Baltimore, but three 
of my programmers are in Lakewood, NJ, three more in Israel, and one in 
NYC.

It feels like a company for geeks created by geeks.  I guess it is, the 
president and founder is a Princeton Comp Sci M.Sc.


> ...the tech staff didn't get to interview him either.
> Glad to be shut of that place, WAS or not.

Ugh, sounds like it.  I guess I'm glad I didn't get the job, though I 
wasn't so happy about it at the time.


---sambo