Checked their LinkedIn and the employees who work there. The founder is non-technical and there are two developers: one who is a "back-end intern" and the other is a front-end developer (both are fresh from bootcamps).
...Yikes.
...Yikes.
Basically schools give you assignments or projects that are well defined and have clearly defined goals/results and cover solved problems. While that's true in the generic sense of business problems it's not how we work, we have to be able to take initiative to define and adjust those goals as reality shifts and goals are more loosely defined. You really have to put it the work to get new folks up to speed with defining their tasks to reach the goals.
Not for nothing but it's tough when you don't have a senior or two on hand to bring people up to speed and mentor them for a month or two before you can really get a new grad productive. And it's difficult with time constraints to do that well, I have to define my own tasks and can't spend as much time defining things for a junior as well as I'd like or train them as much as I should.
College grads may be more blank a slate but I haven't noticed a big difference in terms of actual onboarding. For what it's worth I think boot camps are the next trade schools and we're going to see a division in labor between software techs and engineers just like we have for electrical engineers and electricians or MechEs and mechanics. Tale as old as time, all the work is valuable, just more nuanced.
It's a reporting tool. How the heck did you get to this position?
Given the numerous safety standards and qualifications we require of engineers in the most mundane jobs I'm not sure why interns get to write software that underpins the electoral process.
State party officials who made the plans to use the app without clearly any vetting, the management of Shadow who must have been making insane promises on a shoestring budget, the DNC who allowed the app anywhere near an election, and even pushed the state party officials in the direction of using it.
In big tech areas, there's usually a firm assumption of liberal-leaning employees and technologists. Maybe all the democrats who can code are too busy in the advertising industry.
Lmao.
CEO, COO, CTO...
Here's the thing I don't understand about them, I thought startups were averse to this? Am I wrong about startups or am I wrong about them being a startup?
If this incident hadn't happened, these folks could have proudly claimed that they were the CTO/COO/CPO etc of Shadow Inc on their LinkedIns and whatever article BuzzFeed/Forbes wrote about them.
If I'm on the hiring end, this is not something that will help. Instead, if someone's going to sell me the importance of their title at their 6 people startup, it's going to negatively affect their chances.