| Length | Points | Week |
|---|---|---|
| 45 minutes | 15 | Week 1 |
Gusto
Pivotal Labs
Shutterstock
ThinkTopic
Bonobos
Turing/G-School/Hungry Academy Alum that work there: None Anyone I know there? No
Open source contributions in the last 6 months: A Ruby gem that serves as a wrapper for the Salesforce Bulk API: https://github.com/Gusto/salesforce_bulk_api
Tech Stack - Rails on the backend, React.js on the Front end.
Tech Stack familiarity - Tech I've worked with Used Rails once or twice Familiar with React.js and built medium-sized apps using React framework Familiar with jQuery
Tech Stack familiarity - Tech I'm familiar with MySQL Sidekiq & Redis Sass
Tech stack familiarity - Tech I know almost nothing about Backbone.js Handlebars.js
Upcoming Meetups: Fall Startup Showcase, Thursday October 13th: https://www.meetup.com/Built-In-Colorado/events/233748935/
Interview process: Short phone interview followed by two separate, in-person one-hour coding challenges. Typical linked list question: https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/You-have-an-array-of-the-loans-between-people-Write-a-method-which-takes-an-array-of-loans-and-returns-an-array-of-loans-QTN_1490689.htm Interview questions seem to be geared towards knowledge of Ruby.
Pros and Cons:
- Seems like a very friendly and inclusive place to work, with an emphasis on the employee first
- Appears that they are going through 'start-up growing pains' after launching second office, sometimes offices have trouble communicating.
Next steps: Attend next meetup and network
Turing/G-School/Hungry Academy alum work there? No.
Open source contribution within the last 6 months: Locate your project dependencies in your package managers: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder
Tech Stack: Tech I've worked with before: Ruby/Rails, React.js, Vue.js
Tech I'm familiar with: CodeClimate, NewRelic
Tech I've never worked with: Golang, ObjectiveC, Cocoa, Android SDK.
Upcoming Meetups: Denver.rb https://www.meetup.com/Denver-rb/events/234434491/
Interview Process: Quick phone interview and then an in-person interview. Unlike other technical interviews. Interviewee works with a dev on the team in a pair-programming, TDD environment where the objective is to make the tests pass. The interviewer does all of the driving while the interviewee directs them. Apparantly there's a lot of weight on the refactoring process.
Pros:
- Work with cutting-edge software in a community that can really foster dev growth and education.
- Agile development culture
Cons:
- Pair programming 100% of the time could get exhausting for an introvert.
- Some interviewees seemed to have poor, or an unprofessional experience interviewing at pivotal, where they hadn't been given opportunity to pair in language they feel most comfortable.
- There might be an heir of arrogance deeply nested within the company culture.
Next steps: Attend Denver.rb meetup
Turing/G-School/Hungry Academy Alum? No. List Anyone you know that works there: Nobody. But I do have a lot of shared LinkedIn connections. Link To Github Page: https://github.com/shutterstock
Open source projects: Rickshaw, a JS toolkit for building real-time graphs https://github.com/shutterstock/rickshaw.
Tech Stack: JavaScript - mostly Node it looks like. Python Java Go
Tech I'm familiar with: JavaScript
Tech I'm not familiar with: Python, Java, and Go.
Recent or upcoming meetups: None.
Technical Interview Questions: Short phone interview.
30-60 minute coding review. Ins and outs of inheritance in javascript. How css and the dom interacts. Write a unit test for a basic function Write a join for several JSON objects
Pros and Cons of working for this company:
- Large company with ability to harvest a junior.
- Company office seems pretty superfluous in terms of trying to attract young talent.
Next Step: Pursue mutual LinkedIn connections
Turing/G-School/HungryAcademy: No. List anybody you know that works there: Former co-worker has a former co-worker that works there.
Github: https://github.com/thinktopic
Open Source: Raven: A small Clojurescript notification library https://github.com/thinktopic/raven
TechStack: Clojure In house tech
Upcoming Meetups: None
Pros and Cons of working for company:
- Get to be surrounded by a lot of very smart people
- Appears to be the company where a junior can make an impact and really thrive.
- Get to use a lot of in-house technologies that the company made.
Turing alum: Allison Larson & Scott Crawford
List Anyone you know that works there: None.
Github: https://github.com/bonobos/
Open source contributions: Fixture Builder: Tool to provide you a fixture setup provided a given scenario https://github.com/bonobos/fixture_builder
Tech Stack: Rails, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Handlebars.js
Tech I'm familiar with: Rails
Tech I'm unfamiliar with: Backbone.js
Tech I've worked with: Underscore.js
Pros and Cons of working for this company:
- They pay their devs very well.
- Slightly closer to home.
- Not sure if I'm looking for a product company yet.
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