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I understand your time is valuable, and so is mine. I would like to see how you work, on your own time, in a low-pressure environment. The information I receive from that is easily worth $100. Plus, if we do proceed to further interviews, we have a fantastic non-theoretical project to discuss.
== About Us ==
Olark was founded with the goal of helping small businesses create deeper (and more human!) connections with their customers. Since our initial funding from Y Combinator in 2009, we have bootstrapped a profitable company centered around a simple, powerful, and beautiful chat product that 9000+ businesses use every day to talk to customers. With two major offices and remote teammates across the world, our small 30-person organization is tight-knit and collaborative despite the distance between us. We believe our positive, participatory, and peer-driven team culture plays a big part in driving our growing success. Come chat with us about it!
== Positions ==
Are you fanatical about providing great customer support and have meticulous attention to detail?
Olark is looking for a new member to join our crack support team, doing front line chat and email support. We're specifically looking for someone comfortable identifying and debugging HTML, CSS + JS issues, reading through logs, and discovering issues with third party integrations and webhooks.
Info + application here: https://www.olark.com/jobs
Backend and frontend concerns are completely different, and it's fiction that you can simply wave those concerns aside and write the same sort of software anywhere in your stack.
I was pretty unhappy learning how to write the strange config language at first, but I've made my peace with it. You will almost certainly need to write a package or two, but there's a lot of active development to learn from, and lots of example to cargo cult.
Not only do you have new, hard problems -- but you didn't just innately get a solution to your previous problems. I've seen this in practice, and it is pain, all around. There's immense organizational overhead to having your core product distributed across 4x as many projects/repos/components as you have developers. And if you haven't actually solved all the fragility and failover problems, you are very fucked.
Plus companies will often terminate you via a technical layoff, or 'position eliminated' instead of 'termination for cause'.
== About Us ==
Olark was founded with the goal of helping small businesses create deeper (and more human!) connections with their customers. Since our initial funding from Y Combinator in 2009, we have bootstrapped a profitable company centered around a simple, powerful, and beautiful chat product that 9000+ businesses use every day to talk to customers. With two major offices and remote teammates across the world, our small 30-person organization is tight-knit and collaborative despite the distance between us. We believe our positive, participatory, and peer-driven team culture plays a big part in driving our growing success. Come chat with us about it!
== Positions ==
Are you fanatical about providing great customer support and have meticulous attention to detail?
We are looking for a new member to join our crack support team, doing front line chat, email and occasional phone support!
Please apply online: https://www.olark.com/jobs
(Oh, suspend doesn't work, but my laptop is plugged in 99% of the time, and I haven't undertaken any effort to make it work.)
That said, I do plan on buying a not-Macbook next time around.
That said, I agree that OOP is anthropomorphism gone crazy.
This struck me as well. The irony seemed lost...
You can't have it both ways. Bootstrappers who don't need your money, won't take it. People who do need your money, typically spend it, playing the longer game you've encouraged them to play.
> A healthy company would survive and grow even without VC investment, it's supposed to be an accelerator, not life support.
A thousand times this.