tommizzle

FULL TIME (London)

Front End Dev, Senior Java Dev, Senior Ruby Dev

http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/about-us/careers/

Our business is now at an exciting new stage of its life, as it looks to increase its rate of customer growth further, build a strong recognisable brand profile, and develop a comprehensive customer contact strategy to deliver incremental revenue from its growing customer base.

We are building an innovative and dynamic culture around Agile. Our view and culture is web, not insurance. You will take part in shaping the future direction of this business from both a technology and cultural perspective, while helping to architect, design and refactor our systems.

The company has a dynamic team of 50 people in London and a passionate customer care team of 100 based in Northampton.

Salary is commensurate with experience. Excellent flexible benefits package including private health insurance, life assurance and season ticket loan.

Email careers [at] simplybusiness.co.uk with your CV/Resume and an explanation as to why you'd want to work here. Make sure you mention HN in your email!

I decided to build a revenue generating URL shortener. This was one of the first full projects where I basically did everything myself - research, design, development etc, which was a bit frustrating a times. It's ridiculous how unproductive my design days were compared to my development days, but I guess I'm just going against the grain there (I'd be interested to know how many people have 'mastered' both design & development.) That said, I learned quite a lot about the whole process, so definitely a good result.

I decided to launch before a lot of the esential functionality was complete (conversions, payments etc) just to get a feel for what people wanted, and most importantly if it was worth persuing the idea further. I'd probably do the same again next time, although I must admit I felt a bit helpless in the first week of launch when bugs were being uncovered/features were being requested and I was still working on the core.

I'm now onto marketing my app with my business partner. The market we're trying to is obviously insanely saturated, so it's a little frustrating at times, but I'm super motivated to get this out so lets hope we get some traction sometime soon :)

The URL of the app is http://shrtn.co

Custom domain names are a great idea. Thanks for the feedback!

There's no location detection just yet, but it does work with .com/ca/co.uk, you just have to put the relevant URL in the first place.

What I'm trying to get at is that in my experience the actual getting rejected part doesn't really help on it's own. Sure, it's great to understand that getting rejected doesn't matter, but beyond that the only thing that is really helping you are the skills you're learning along side the rejection. So in my student's case, a much more productive thing for them to do was to throw themselves into more challenging social situations.

In terms of diet, I try to eat smallish meals every 3-3.5 hours. A nice mix of protein, complex carbs, vegetables, fruit, healthy fats like nuts etc works for me. I found the best way to avoid eating unhealthy stuff was simply not to buy it - sounds stupid but it's crazy how long it took me to do.

"I don’t find any companies interesting. They’re just companies. They make things, move things, process things, sell things–bleh, no thank you."

Pretty obvious that he's lacking passion for the jobs he's applying for. Not really that suprising that he had such a hard time obtaining one in the end.

John and Dave both eat the exact same 3 meals every day, for 30 days. When they both come home, they both do exactly the same workout. After the workout John has 50g of whey protein powder @ 110 calories, whilst Dave has 110 calories worth of coca cola (~290ml).

Now, given that protein helps muscle growth, and the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn, who loses the most fat after the 30 days?