If you've got 2-factor set up on your Google account, you'll get prompted for it when you set up Google Drive.
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Living in Portland helps a lot too. I moved up from the Bay Area and my previous job because Portland is a much better place to raise a young family. Much cheaper rent/housing, good public transport, better schools, it all added up to a much better life for my whole family.
The original author is largely correct when it comes to the US in my opinion though. That subset of OSes does cover the vast majority of US enterprises on Linux.
nigel@puppetlabs.com
Not being able to externalize data has had a huge effect upon sharing modules.
Our plan for the next major release of Puppet this year is to integrate Hiera deeply into Puppet in a more native manner.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/hiera
We're still building out the plan, and will be sending it out to the community soon for comment, but the basic idea is that parameterized class parameter lookup will automatically consult a hierarchical store like Hiera if values are not supplied directly.
Much like Hiera has now, there will also be an easy function to grab arbitrary data values outside of class parameters.
I'm not going to pretend we've got the Free Software business model perfectly sorted either.
We're producing proprietary software as well as developing/curating open source software projects, and there is a balancing act involved there.
Not to sound too bandwagon-jumpy (I've found the recent hyperbolic public outpouring of grief somewhat distasteful) but I care about user experience and documentation, and I've always believed that focusing on the end user will lead you in the right direction.
http://puppetlabs.com/blog/what-is-user-experience-in-puppet...
We're looking for more UX staff, and have an open UX Designer role right now actually...
http://puppetlabs.jobscore.com/jobs/puppetlabs/ux-designer/b...
I would add though that once you've gone through the basics, you find yourself primarily living in the Type Reference, which is arranged alphabetically.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html
Always happy to get bug reports, feature requests and feedback on the docs...
This is one of the reasons we're moving Puppet Labs from being a support company to a product company, and not for hosted services.
If your bread and butter comes in from support, you have no incentive to actually make your product easier to use. There are plenty of enterprise-y software companies who make lots of money operating like this, but that's not the sort of company I want to work for.
I'm quite proud of the rapid improvement we've made on the Puppet Docs over the last year since we hired NickF, our most excellent tech writer:
I particularly like the solution focused docs he's done, as opposed to the dry reference material that presupposes a lot of knowledge.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/
Anyway, just wanted to point out that that's not our business model.
(Product Manager at Puppet Labs)
From the viewpoint of interviewer and hirer rather than interviewee, I thought the process was better than anywhere else I've worked.
I liked the expected level of rigor, I liked the decisions being made by a separate committee, and I liked the salary package being set by yet another group.
The main problems I saw were: * recruiters dropping the contact chain with the candidate * interviewers not preparing enough * not enough of a feedback cycle to interviewers about their performance.
I left about six months ago, and while there were things I didn't like about the hiring and interview process, it was still significantly better than any other place I've worked.
If you read the various news reports closely, you'll see one vector was the 0-day IE vulnerability, another was malicious payloads in PDFs.
The headlines haven't helped.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144844/Hackers_used_...
"Hackers exploited an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser to break into some of the firms targeted in a widespread attack that compromised Google's and Adobe's corporate networks"
"Google and Adobe, the only two companies to have stepped forward thus far to acknowledge the attacks, were hacked using malicious PDF files that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's popular Reader software"
We're based in Portland, OR, and aren't looking for remote workers as yet.
We're looking for both Core Developers and Pro Services Engineers, and no matter what, you'll be working with open source software and a highly engaged user community, as well as on a project that is included in most of the major *nix distributions in one way or another.
Puppet itself is written entirely in Ruby, so strong experience in Ruby is great, but experience in an equivalently flexible language is fine too.
We've recently moved into our new offices: http://twitpic.com/3ckay1 http://twitpic.com/3cksg3 (things are more organized than that now :)
Portland is freaking awesome.
I moved up here recently after working for Google in the Bay Area, and I couldn't be happier. Cheap rent, amazing food and beer, huge bike culture and a city full of incredibly friendly and nice people.
Some people just don't use common sense though.
We have other E-3 employees as well.
http://www.puppetlabs.com/company/jobs/
Ultimately you need to make a judgement call when hiring. Is the position important enough to justify the cost of the visa application and processing?
I'd argue that at an early stage for a startup, just about every position is that important. The right person matters a lot.
The bigger problem might be the time it takes to get all these applications done.
The USCIS doesn't exactly operate at startup pace... :)