Write Some ****ing Code

[loinburger]

It's a sports website - right now most of their income is from rebranding and selling the platform to other sports websites; the intention was that in several months they'd be able to sell cheap semi-customizable websites to high schools and amateur teams etc (right now it takes a few days to rebrand the platform when you ignore the customizations that the large clients ask for (customizations that a high school / amateur team won't ask for), the long term goal was to automate this process), which is what was supposed to let us operate in the black

[loinburger]

Also, have all the code-theory princesses you wrote about earlier gotten the axe?

Nobody's been fired yet - everybody is voluntarily leaving in droves

The code-theory princesses are probably going to stay around the longest, since it's relatively difficult to find functional programming jobs

[loinburger]

A search for Java on Careerbuilder returns 8,000 jobs, a search for Scala returns 200 jobs, and a search for Haskell (which is the wet dream of functional programmers) returns 25 jobs

[regexcellent]

How do you need 600 people to develop a sports website? How big is the software team?

[loinburger]

The back office team has about a dozen people on it, I think the front office team is comparable. We've got a ton of sales people, who evidently aren't commission only if we're going bankrupt from having too many employees.

[regexcellent]

Something seems very wrong with a web software company that has a couple dozen programmers, maybe a half dozen sysadmins, and hundreds of ****ing salesmen.

[loinburger]

I wouldn't be all that surprised if it turns out that most of those salesmen use the same bank account as the CEO

[Elok]

Loin, I'd like to thank you for making my work situation seem better. Sure, my boss has acquired three completely distinct companies, and is now trying to run all three at once with the same small crew--but I get paid regularly. I mean, holy hell, that sounds profoundly dysfunctional. Good luck in the future.

[loinburger]

I'm not likely to work for any startups after this

[Hauldren Collider]

A startup is just a company that has yet to ever be profitable.

[Ben Kenobi]

Sucks. Good luck with finding another job, Loin.

[loinburger]

Thanks, yesterday I had a second and third interview with an established (i.e. non-startup!!!) Java company (tech interview followed by vetting by the head of software development), assuming the third interview went well then next week I'll have a final interview with their client to make sure that they don't inexplicably hate me.

On Thursday I had a second interview with a less established (but non-startuppy) Scala company, my preference is for the Java company in large part because I don't want to get shoehorned into functional programming.

Right now I'm just looking for remote work, in another week or two I'll expand that to local non-remote work.

[Ben Kenobi]

Thanks, yesterday I had a second and third interview with an established (i.e. non-startup!!!) Java company (tech interview followed by vetting by the head of software development), assuming the third interview went well then next week I'll have a final interview with their client to make sure that they don't inexplicably hate me.

Great news! Having the startup experience looks good with established companies.

[regexcellent]

Do you just really like Boise or do you hate going into the office/wearing pants?

[loinburger]

My brother + sister-in-law + nieces + parents are all in Boise, and I don't like wearing pants

I moved here because my brother transferred here from San Jose (where I didn't want to live, and neither did he), and my parents moved here shortly after

Working remotely isn't a necessity, but it's nice to have the flexibility to e.g. pick up my nieces from school everyday