ScotterC

You're absolutely right. A mindset needs to accompany any tool in order for it to be successful - or direct relationship to how successful

There's a great book on this topic from the first dot com age. Necessary but not Sufficient (https://www.amazon.com/Necessary-But-Sufficient-Eliyahu-Gold...). The idea being you can adopt a tool but if you don't understand the mental models that go along with that tool then you won't fully reap the benefits.

As a company, this is still our responsibility. The best products educate as well as enable.

Not worried at all. Our value of transparency internally extends to this raise as well.

Yes employees have equity packages and we're well informed of what the terms of this raise are, the dilution and our leadership team has worked hard to get employee-friendly terms. We believe in this because our team members are the main function for Asana to grow and hit these expectations so it must be a trusting and win-win partnership in order for it to last.

I work at Asana - Site Lead for NYC

What I find most fascinating about this company is that something that sounds relatively unsexy - work management for enterprise - can be so well aligned with a truly unique mission. Enabling teams to collaborate effortlessly. For anyone who's worked at a dysfunctional company - politics, low morale, low transparency - it makes a huge difference when you have tools that help you collaborate and get on the same page.

Adding fuel to the growth spurt. We're opening up a data center in frankfurt and opening up / growing more offices like NYC

Asana (asana.com) | New York, NY | Product Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | Visa

Asana's mission is to enable all teams to collaborate effortlessly. We're taking on the work management space and I have a fundamental belief that technology can help us all self-organize more efficiently and in return allow us to work more in our genius, achieving a state of flow more often. Asana delivers on this with our product and our culture.

We're looking for Product Engineers who are passionate about creating a phenomenal culture that enables autonomy and responsibility while striving to building the best product possible because that's what we compete on.

Our tech stack: Typescript / React and our own version of GraphQL (we built it before GraphQL was open sourced)

I joined because I was convinced that the incredible collaboration experiences I had in a small startup could be scaled up to big companies. Come work with me https://asana.com/jobs/apply/1163890/product-engineer

Asana (asana.com) | New York, NY | Product Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | Visa

Asana's mission is to enable all teams to collaborate effortlessly. We're taking on the work management space and I have a fundamental belief that technology can help us all self-organize more efficiently and in return allow us to work more in our genius, achieving a state of flow more often. Asana delivers on this with our product and our culture.

We're looking for Product Engineers who are passionate about creating a phenomenal culture that enables autonomy and responsibility while striving to building the best product possible because that's what we compete on.

Our tech stack: Typescript / React and our own version of GraphQL (we built it before GraphQL was open sourced)

I joined because I was convinced that the incredible collaboration experiences I had in a small startup could be scaled up to big companies. Come work with me https://asana.com/jobs/apply/1163890/product-engineer

This is a great idea. I've been on a several year cycle where every 3-4 years I go hardcore again and cut 20-30 lbs with minimizing meal variability and exercising constantly. This feels like a great solution for the intermediate time of trying to slow/stop my general daily increase of 10-20% increase in calorie intake. Even having a small, easy habit like using a mechanical tracker would make me more mindful of what I eat and have a beneficial impact.

Sure! shoot me a note at scotter@asana.com

Asana (asana.com) | New York, NY | Product Engineer | Full-time | Onsite

Asana's mission is to enable all teams to collaborate effortlessly. We're taking on the work management space and I have a fundamental belief that technology can help us all self-organize more efficiently and in return allow us to work more in our genius, achieving a state of flow more often. Asana delivers on this with our product and our culture.

We're looking for Product Engineers who are passionate about creating a phenomenal culture that enables autonomy and responsibility while striving to building the best product possible because that's what we compete on.

Our tech stack: Typescript / React and our own version of GraphQL (we built it before GraphQL was open sourced)

I joined because I was convinced that the incredible collaboration experiences I had in a small startup could be scaled up to big companies. Come work with me https://asana.com/jobs/apply/1163890/product-engineer

I’d love to explore that more. That is one advantage of bigger companies, more variety of opportunities and if you’re effective you can move between them or define something in between as you point out.

One aspect that I’d like to put words to is something orthogonal to the opportunities, which is the distance of the opportunity from the customer and a ‘real’ problem. This isn’t always true in big companies but at most you’d feel like a cog in the machine no?

For me this question comes down to: What do you want to learn?

In a big company, most risk has been removed from the equation. This is great for compensation and stability but also limits ones possible learnings as well. You might find your time learning the big company’s systems which don’t apply universally because they’re specific to that company’s needs.

In smaller companies, risk is still a real aspect of life. The downsides are obvious but the joys are that you’re closer to the customer and your actions have real impact. I find these types of learnings to be universal which is why I’m drawn to it.

ONSITE Nairobi, Kenya or Lagos, Nigeria Sr. Director Engineering & Sr. Director Product

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.

Link for more info https://boards.greenhouse.io/andela/jobs/859126 Reach out to met at scotter AT andela.com if interested

I immediately looked it up too ;)

My 2 cents. I think of it as a min/max problem. I don't care about my lunch so I want to minify the effort and degrading effects of it and I use Soylent for that. On the other hand, I absolutely love food and love to cook so I tend to cook dinner every night and really enjoy the experience. When I care, I care a lot, when I don't care, I want to minimize the effort involved.

Talent is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not.

Check out Andela :)

Andela | Software Engineer, iOS Lead, DevOps Lead | Nairob, Kenya & Lagos, Nigeria | Full-Time

Brilliance is evenly distributed; opportunity is not.

Andela extends engineering teams with world-class software developers. We recruit the most talented developers on the African continent, shape them into technical leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of high-growth startups. Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV (Google Ventures) and Spark Capital, Andela is building the next generation of global technology leaders. We're building teams in Africa, staffed by our developers and led by experts to build the systems that'll scale us to 100,000 developers across the African continent.

Some technologies we use React | Angular | GoLang | Python | Ruby | JS | PHP | Kubernetes | Docker | Google Cloud

All our engineering positions are currently in Africa but we are a distributed company. So if you want to try out a move to Nairobi for awhile, here's your chance :)

Other positions on our careers page http://careers.andela.com/

Reach out to me at scott.carleton@andela.com

Agreed. That's the central tenant of Andela [1]. I just got back from Kenya and was blown away by how talented the engineers were. Going to Nigeria next month and can't wait to compare and see what Zuck was seeing.

1. http://andela.com

This is really impressive and shows that the basics of nuclear technology aren't all that complicated in small scale. Just like fire requires a spark and oxygen, a fission reaction really only requires a fissionable metal and an appropriate moderator.

Didn't know about ActiveRecord-tableless thanks!

Glad to have an easier way to incorporate AR benefits without including one by one

I've worked analysis related to extending reactor lifetimes. With correct maintenance, 100 years is going to be easy. Most of the analysis to getting them to 80 years required almost no changes.

Those are awesome!

TeachersPayTeachers (TpT) - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com @ New York, NY

# Tech Lead # Systems Engineer # Internal Automation Lead # Tech Lead - Search # Software Engineer - Data Engineering # General Software Engineer

We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 3 million active teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated over $100 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. We're looking to build a tech dream team that'll be our core. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

We're putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is a monolithic architecture of PHP/MySQL/NGINX and we're breaking it down into SOA.

Position postings: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

or shoot me an email scott at teacherspayteachers.com

PHP, MySQL, NGINX, Sphinx

TeachersPayTeachers (TpT) - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com @ New York, NY

# Data Engineer # DevOps # Internal Automation Lead # Lead Search Engineer # Software Engineer

We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 3 million active teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated over $100 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. We're looking to build a tech dream team that'll be our core. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

We're putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is a monolithic architecture of PHP/MySQL/NGINX and we're breaking it down into SOA.

Position postings: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

or shoot me an email scott at teacherspayteachers.com

PHP, MySQL, NGINX, Sphinx

* Full Stack Engineers * DevOps Lead * Build and Release Engineer

TeachersPayTeachers - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com (TpT) New York, NY

We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 3 million active teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated over $100 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. We're looking to build a tech dream team that'll be our core. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

We're putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is a monolithic architecture of PHP/MySQL/NGINX and we're breaking it down into SOA.

Position postings: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

or shoot me an email scott at teacherspayteachers.com

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/nytdevs/using-go-at-the-new-york-tim...

* Full Stack Engineers * DevOps Lead

TeachersPayTeachers - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com (TpT) New York, NY

We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 3 million active teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated over $100 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. We're looking to build a tech dream team that'll be our core. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

I'm putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is a monolithic architecture of PHP/MySQL/NGINX and we're breaking it down into SOA.

Application for all three positions: http://grnh.se/l56nvo

or shoot me an email scott at teacherspayteachers.com

* Senior Backend Engineer * DevOps Lead * Senior iOS

TeachersPayTeachers - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com (TpT) New York, NY

Happy April Fools! We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 4 million teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated almost $150 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. We're looking to build a tech dream team that'll be our core. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

I'm putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is a monolithic architecture of PHP/MySQL/NGINX and we're breaking it down into SOA.

Application for all three positions: http://grnh.se/l56nvo

or shoot me an email scott at teacherspayteachers.com

Introduce them to Pomodoro techniques [1]. I've seen this same problem with junior devs and they're not fully aware of it themselves. When you get them to track themselves using a tool like Vitamin-R [2], they'll be more aware of it and also want to fix it.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

2. http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/

TeachersPayTeachers - New York, NY http://www.teacherspayteachers.com

Hey! I'm building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. First, a little bit of who we are:

TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 4 million teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated almost $150 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources.

Now, for you. Do you love what Github has done for software? Can you imagine having to write a web server from scratch every time you build a website? Do you love being a developer that's standing on the shoulders of giants? That's what we're doing for teachers at TpT - creating a culture and marketplace to empower teachers. Every teacher out there knows what it's like to work a full day in the classroom and then work all night putting together lesson plans for the next day. TpT is where they can find other teachers who've dealt with the same problem and are putting up their crafted resources for sale.

I'm putting together a 'dream team' so to speak of engineers who will be the core of our NYC team. The site is currently PHP with NGINX and MySQL on either end. However, we're playing with Ruby quite a bit and tend to be polyglots.

* Software Engineer - http://grnh.se/l56nvo

That's the best apart about having a community like this. When a focus/problem gets presented it wields such a massive amount of force/man-hours to attack the problem