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I'd guess you're right, especially since 4/10 articles featured on their engineering homepage are obvious attempts at attracting more women / minority members of the engineering team: https://engineering.hellofresh.com/

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You'd think you'd want to attract good engineers regardless of skin color or gender but what do I know?

Eh, there are benefits to a heterogeneous environment that aren't always obvious. For example, not accidentally making racist software.[1] ;)

1: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/01/12/how-we-accidentally-made-...

Oh my god. This checks off all the boxes for companies I would never work at.

Starting with this nugget:

>Our gateway is on the frontline of our infrastructure. It >receives thousands of request per day.

LOL! Wat???!!! Thousands of requests per day. Thousands. Not per hour or per second. Per day.

Call out the big guns, people! We need cutting edge enterprise-scale architecture! A boring rails app or a flask app will never be able to handle this kind of scale!!

I don't even need to go farther down the checklist than that. You're putting all of that complexity and infrastructure and problems-waiting-to-happen behind an API that serves thousands of requests per day.

Yeah, I'd rather be homeless than work on that team. Jesus.

Shhh... 3 guys and Flask app don't employee as many people as a large team drawing diagrams on whiteboards and working on "infrastructure".

Next you are going to be criticizing 3GB big data databases with dedicated sys admins.

Sometimes I wonder how much of this is some type of "jobs program". A transfer of money from the financial sector back to the grunt sector via VC.

3GB database might even still be appropriate SQLite territory, especially if you're not super write heavy. :)

Exactly what is wrong with encouraging more women and minorities into the industry and making them feel welcome at a company. I assume the ideal workplace for you is just a group of 20-30 year old, white males.

And in your "expert" opinion where did they go wrong here. What is the correct number of articles they should post on any particular subject in order to get the HN tick of approval ?

What? I was just remarking that their engineering blog seems to be more recruiting focused than focused on the actual technical achievements of the company. I was not at all commenting on whether those posts were good or bad.

I'd wager the vast majority of company tech blogs are maintained with exactly that goal in mind. And in my opinion that's totally reasonable. Done well it helps people understand more about the people, technical philosophy, and problems faced by that team

I'm not the op, but I would charitably assume that they meant that those blog posts demonstrate that the blog's strongly geared toward attracting talent.

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