Does that change the fact that it clearly answers your question with data from less than a year ago? Or was that a really stupid rhetorical question you didn't actually want answered?
These are exciting roles for technically-minded marketers as we're focussing on reaching developers and small teams (mostly at startups) and growing our open source community.
We have an attractive compensation package - 20% over SF average weighted to your location with many other benefits such as pension, health care, relocating, no-madding and more. Our team is small, growing fast and extremely talented.
If you're an engineer who's done some writing or community work and you're looking to move more into marketing, please get in touch too, we'd be very interested to chat.
Thank you, I've updated the link. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about the security features and I can get Kyle (security) and Jeremiah (PureOS) to jump into this thread.
Instead of having Kyle & Jeremiah elaborate on it in this thread, which will quickly disappear into the aether, probably better to elaborate on it in your wiki. PureOS’s main customer base are techies and hackers who will be very curious about security, and a thorough writeup on it could be a strong selling point.
Recently I find this to be the case for me. I consider myself a generalist: engineering (a few stacks/languages), product, business, marketing, leadership and education. Recruiters tell me to focus on one thing on my CV and I feel employers don’t believe I could be even two of those things. For example with my blend of skills I was able to double the traffic, increase leads and social engagement by 5-6x at the last place I worked after my first quarter. My boss didn’t understand what happened and when I recount the steps and results to other people they don’t believe me. After winding down my own startup a few months ago I’ve struggled to get hired. People don’t advertise for generalists and as I remove certain skills and roles/duties from my CV I’ve found the hiring process gets easier. I’d love some advice, even more I’d love to put my skills to work.
A possibly silly question: did you counter with "Why don't you test my engineering skills if you don't believe me? Give me a fair chance. And then, if I'm not good, by all means reject me." That's assuming you've applied for an engineering job.
Another question: as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484883 says, would it help to rewrite your CV to highlight what the job is looking for? Again, if it's an engineering job, talk about your eng accomplishments in great detail, with perhaps only a bullet point for other skills at the bottom of the resume?
> Did the solicitation for the job say “We are seeking someone with strong skills at scaling traffic in a fast-moving environment”? Pick out the key words. Scaling traffic. Fast-moving environment. “Scaling traffic” doesn’t sound like how I’d phrase it if I were writing or speaking for myself, but if you’ve just described your need to me as scaling traffic, by golly I will tell you how great I am at scaling traffic.
Whimso is a free prototype for a larger unrealised travel tech project which we've released as a fast and simple place search engine engine based on user preferences.
We've had feedback that it's handy for finding vegan/vegetarian food nearby - should we re-release it as a plant-based restaurant finder?
