[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Phil Stracchino]

sammy ominsky wrote:
> 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.

Huh.  Interesting.

> 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.

...Which company was this again?


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