On 5/6/2011 12:08 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jacob Albretsen<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a neighbor and a former co-worker that both work there. My neighbor >> mentioned you need to fit into the culture there to survive and have a thick >> skin. The former co-worker said the interview was insane and they pushed him >> pretty hard, but he's a flippen genius so he was able impress them. Sounds >> like there are like Google and Facebook and want the best of the best of the >> best. With honors. > What do they have to entice 'the best of the best of the best' with? > Is there anything to work on there besides a web store? You have to > fit into the culture anywhere, but needing a thick skin doesn't sound > very pleasant. > > --Levi > I have to admit I have not worked there. I have known several people who did, or who got offered to. Perhaps this isn't true of their entire company, but the people that I know that left were in their IT world, and they were underpaid, and treated like you might expect a company to treat a call center rep. The one that applied is someone I consider less than intelligent, to be polite, and he was offered a fairly low salary and only after several unprofessional phone calls and interviews with the IT manager over there at the time.
I'm not going to outright refute that they want the best of the best or that they are a good place to work, but I will say I have no reason to believe they want any talent whatsoever with my limited experience with them. That alone would tell me they aren't a good place to work if it were company wide. Even if it isn't, Levi makes an excellent point. They don't exactly do anything interesting anyway. -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
