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The 'Job Profiling' Assignment

List 5 companies you might want to apply for:

  • GoSpotCheck
  • Viper
  • CaptainU
  • SendGrid
  • CA Technologies

GoSpotCheck

For each company, answer the following questions:

  • List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

    • Nathan Owsiany
    • Toni Rib

  • List anyone else you know that works there

    • Kinsey Duram

  • Link to the company's Github page(s)

  • Tech stack

    • I have worked with:
      • Ruby on Rails
      • Postgres
      • SQL
    • I know nothing about
    • Espresso
    • Roboletric
    • XCTest
    • Cedar

  • List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

    • Built in Brews
    • Built in Colorado

  • List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

    • Pros: They have a great reputation and benefits
    • Cons: It is difficult to get a job there

  • What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

    • I don't plan on pursuing work with this company.
      Consider at least reaching out to alumns to let them know you're interested. Even if you don't think its a good fit for your first job, your first job is only your first job. The next time GoSpotCheck raises money, they're going to be looking for talent, and they're going to start with people who have shown interest

VIPER

For each company, answer the following questions:

  • List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

    • Could not find any Turing grads that work there.

  • List anyone else you know that works there

    • N/A

  • Link to the company's Github page(s)

    • List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

    • Stack Overflow

    • Canticle

  • Tech stack

    • I know a little about:
    • HBase
    • MemSQL
    • I know nothing about
    • Cloudera Apache Hadoop
    • Storm

  • List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

    • Pros: They hire a lot people.
    • Cons: They are owned by a large corporation.

  • What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

    • I plan on attending the meetup at the end of the month. This is a good first step. Find out how much you would need to learn to be valuable there. You don't have to know all of the technologies well to be on the team, especially if it's a big team

CaptainU

For each company, answer the following questions:

  • List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

    • Claudia Kiesenhofer
    • Marina Corona
    • Emily Davis
    • and 6 others

  • List anyone else you know that works there

    • N/A

  • Link to the company's Github page(s)

  • Tech stack

    • I have worked with:
      • Ruby on Rails
      • HTML
      • CSS
      • JavaScript
    • I know a little about
      • New Relic
      • Bugsnag
      • MySQL
      • Linux
      • Chef

  • List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

    • Pros: They hire a lot of Turing alumni
    • Cons: I'm really interested in what they do specifically

  • What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

    • I am going to reach our to someone I know who works there. Excellent. Show interest in the company. Let them know you'd love to work there. Have questions for them about your concerns. It may not come up in the first conversations, but voicing concerns is the only way a team improves, and good companies want people who will speak up.

SendGrid

For each company, answer the following questions:

  • List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

    • None listed. I think Rachel Martinez's husband works there. I think he was gSchool or Hungry Academy

  • List anyone else you know that works there

    • N/A

  • Link to the company's Github page(s)

  • Tech stack

    • I have worked with:
      • Ruby
    • I know a little about
      • Java
      • Python
      • PHP

  • List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

  • List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

    • Pros: They use languages that I am interested in learning
    • Cons: I'm not super-interested in what they do, but it's not a deal-breaker

  • What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

    • I will attend the GO meetup. Check before hand to see if any Sendgrid members have RSVPd. Or any other companies you're interested in for that matter.

CA Technologies

For each company, answer the following questions:

  • List any Turing/gSchool/Hungry Academy grads that work there

    • None listed. I feel like CA technologies has come up for alumns. I know Lovisa got an offer, but I don't remember if she took it.

  • List anyone else you know that works there

    • N/A

  • Link to the company's Github page(s)

    • List any open source projects actively maintained (have commits in the last 6 months)

    • GitHub Page

    • all of the public repos were updated more than a year ago

  • Tech stack

    • I have worked with:
      • Ruby
      • ActiveRecord
      • Rails
    • I know a little about
      • Objective C
      • Swift
      • Java

  • List any meetups and events they have recently or will soon sponsor

    • these are not current but are the only ones I could locate

  • List any technical interview information you can find about the company

  • List 'pros' and 'cons' of working for this Company

    • Pros: Comprehensive benefits
    • Cons: Seems very corporate

  • What is your next step to pursue working at this company?

    • I don't plan on pursuing work with this company. I'd encourage you to see if we have alums there, and at least reach out.

All in all, this is a good start. Keep making connections, and looking for interesting companies. Good luck!

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