Recruiting Engineers

College #SoftwareEngineering class: three weeks to work out a theoretical problem to better understand a new language. Support via office hours. 

First engineering job out of school: five days to fix a bug in someone else’s code written in Aramaic.  Support via wiki-equivalent of booby-trapped death-chamber. 

Senior engineering job that asked for 5-8 years of experience: 24 hours to code for peace in the Middle East.  Support via googled code snippets, mainly from Stack Overflow. 

Engineering management job: travel back in time to hug the baby co-workers whose parents clearly didn’t hug them enough.  Support via daily beatings. 

Senior Management: challenge the very fabric of time and space by writing memes. Support via early retirement.


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That was me being senior mgmt, not something I stole from Imgur.  

Here’s my associated ad. 

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I’m hiring!  I didn’t shout it in the first line because these gigs aren’t for everyone. 

We’re putting together what we call our All-India Team.  Engineering, not cricket.

New hires can be based anywhere in #India-- a real commitment to flexible working-- as long as you have extraordinary engineering skills. 

But be afraid.  We’ve set a *very* high engineering bar.  You’ll have to score in the top 1% of HackerRank globally and survive our grueling code kata (run by the nicest people that you’ll ever admit are smarter than you). #OurLeadershipAlreadyIncludes3AmazingJavaChampions

These are roles for coders... who want to actually code... every day.  They’re not for you if you want to eventually become a manager.  Ew!

If you aspire to end your career as a distinguished engineer-- after a lifetime of doing serious, meaningful engineering-- with people you’ll actually learn something from and with….

As I said, it’s not for everyone.

#TheresAlwaysManagement

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