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List 5 companies you might want to apply for:

2 companies you think you'd like to work for 2 companies you don't really want to work for but that have a job posting somewhere you'd like to live 1 dream company (BaseCamp, Funny or Die, Github... somewhere it's hard to get hired but wouldn't that be cool, eh?) Don't say which is which though - just list 5.

For each company, answer the following questions:

CA Technologies

List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

  • Lovisa Svallingson
  • Kaitlin Barrer

List anyone else you know that works there

  • N/A

Link to the company's Github page(s)

List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

  • N/A

List the tech stack of the company

  • tech you've worked with:
    • JavaScript, Ruby with or without Rails
  • tech you're familiar with
    • Java, Clojure, ReactJS, SASS
  • tech you know almost nothing about
    • Redux, MongoDB

List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • N/A

List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • Write a program in Java that will take input strings like "Nine-hundred forty three dollars and 19/100 cents" and output the double "943.19"
  • What's the shortest amount of time that you've seen between code submission and production?
  • How would you implement security in our development cycle?
  • What tools do you use?

List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

  • pros:
    • their stack interests me
    • Seems like a great flexible culture
    • Turing grads and fun people work there
  • cons:
    • a few more experienced graduates work there and I might be disappointing

What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

  • contact Turing alumni to talk about their approach and what types of things I should focus on to get an interview.

Ello

List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

  • Justin Holmes

List anyone else you know that works there

  • Marla's Partner (I have never met him)

Link to the company's Github page(s)

List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

  • lettertray
  • streams-client
  • Ello-OSS-iOS-Certs
  • ElloOSSUIFonts
  • TimeAgoInWords
  • KINWebBrowser
  • ello_protobufs
  • kinesis-stream-reader
  • notification-streams-client-ruby
  • heroku-buildpack-imagemagick
  • ello-ios
  • ello-android
  • ellobor_site
  • ello-notifications
  • wtf
  • ello-kinesis-consumer
  • cocoapod-specs
  • ello-click
  • Birdsong
  • render-service
  • danger
  • vizify
  • render_pipeline
  • ios-snapshot-test-case
  • dotfiles
  • sightengine-ruby
  • ello-button
  • notification-streams
  • ello-ifttt

List the tech stack of the company

  • tech you've worked with:
    • JavaScript, Ruby, Postgres, Heroku
  • tech you're familiar with
    • N/A
  • tech you know almost nothing about
    • Elasticsearch, Redis, AWS

List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • Creative Tech - Thursday 8/25

List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • N/A

List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

  • pros:
    • it is a smaller company but growing
  • cons:
    • seems unstable

What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

  • Speak with Turing alumni to keep establishing my connection to the company.

Pearson

List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

  • N/A

List anyone else you know that works there

  • N/A

Link to the company's Github page(s)

List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

  • N/A

List the tech stack of the company

  • tech you've worked with:
    • JavaScript, Node.js
  • tech you're familiar with
    • React.js, Angular.js
  • tech you know almost nothing about
    • Hapi.js

List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • N/A

List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • I did not see anything on glassdoor or other websites.

List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

  • pros:
    • their stack interests me
  • cons:
    • "sinking ship" was a quote from glassdoor
    • low pay

What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

  • It doesn't sound fruitful so I might not decide to pursue it.

Tendril

List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

  • Jeff Ruane

List anyone else you know that works there

  • N/A

Link to the company's Github page(s)

List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

  • omniauth-saml
  • marathon-autoscaler
  • ansible-mesos
  • netflix-curator
  • ansible-zookeeper
  • ansible-marathon

List the tech stack of the company

  • tech you've worked with:
    • SQL
  • tech you're familiar with
    • Linux, OS, Java
  • tech you know almost nothing about
    • AWS, Scala

List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • N/A

List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • Describe OO patterns you have used.
  • How does the GIL affect parallelism in Ruby and Python (specifically the C interpreter versions.
  • Lots of conversation around testing, BDD particularly.

List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

  • pros:
    • their reviews are really good.
    • they seem flexible.
    • their stack is interesting.
  • cons:
    • it is in Boulder (don't really want to move there)
    • might be a contract position.

What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

  • Chat with Jeff Ruane about his experience as a contractor working there.

Stitch Fix

List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

  • Amber Crawford
  • Kristina Brown

List anyone else you know that works there

  • N/A

Link to the company's Github page(s)

List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

  • rosco
  • spinnaker
  • distribution_model
  • Algorithms-Notebooks
  • resque-brain
  • stitches
  • SimianArmy
  • dr-elephant
  • presto-kinesis
  • ping
  • fauxtograph
  • clouddriver
  • usher
  • deck
  • gate
  • pact-mock_service
  • orca
  • orchestration engine
  • caravel
  • resque
  • pingful

List the tech stack of the company

  • tech you've worked with:
    • Ruby
  • tech you're familiar with
    • Java,
  • tech you know almost nothing about
    • AWS, Scala, Spark, Presto

List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • N/A

List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • Describe OO patterns you have used.
  • How does the GIL affect parallelism in Ruby and Python (specifically the C interpreter versions.
  • Lots of conversation around testing, BDD particularly.

List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

  • pros:
    • their reviews are really good.
    • I know people that enjoy their jobs there
    • their stack interests me
  • cons:
    • it is remote.
    • if they are hiring is in question.

What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

  • Chat with Turing Alumni about the company and how to network well.
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