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a bit OT. Since you are already a team, utilize spare time to make some awesome product. Someone will eventually hire you :)
I know people always say this but the job search and preparation is taxing. Going through everyday for listings then all the prep work involving reading about cs stuff, and practicing white board questions.
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What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.
a yuppie has an expensive car and house, a hipster has a bike and roommates, and a millennial borrows their parent's car and lives at home
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Curious: From your perspective, what are some reasons you prefer Chattanooga over Boulder?
The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing). This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.
Chatanooga proper seems to have done it's best to be welcoming, but it's the mountains nearby that are the draw, and the folks up there, well.. let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome.
You'll find success faster if you split up and join the talent pool sooner rather than later. If you're trying to get hired as a team, that sounds new, so employers might not have heard of such a thing. It's the first time I've heard of something so preposterous. Maybe if it was a progressive state like Colorado, I could understand, but Tennessee? I can't stand the hot, humid summers myself. Then you have chiggers an…
As for hiring a team, I have heard of companies poaching their competitors' employees before, not as a whole team at once, but one by one (they hire one guy, then he talks to his former co-workers and they switch to the new company too). I'm not sure why companies don't do more of this when they can; it'd be a great way of beating your competitors, since the employees are the ones who build the product and know everything about it. There's likely some non-compete issues in some places, but in California that shouldn't be a problem, as case law already bans enforcement of non-competes, and that lawsuit a few years ago with the big tech companies proved that non-poaching agreements are also illegal.
Just the other day HN had an article on them. They are in Atlanta, so not far from you.
They are looking to hire 150 new employees within the next year.
>> "[MailChimp] now employs about 550 people, and by next year it will be close to 700"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12642824
Since OpenTable sends email confirmation for restaurant reservations, your team might bring interesting insight for MailChimp since it's possible you might be a current customer of them.
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The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing). This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.
What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.
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The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing). This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.
What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.
A "yuppie" is an term of 1980s vintage for "young urban professional", formed directly from the phrase.
A "hipster" is a term of more recent invention, for basically the same thing (a young urban professional).
Both carry some implications of both in-group trendiness and conspicuous consumption though, with the changing character of the times, the "yuppie" has stronger associations with conspicuous consumption and "hipster" with trendiness with less general conspicuous consumption (and perhaps an outward, though often skin deep, rejection of consumerism.)
A millennial is a member of a particular generational cohort, basically the group now between the mid-teens and mid-30s. Modern hipsters/yuppies are probably also millenials, but plenty of millenials are neither.
Please know that this post does not represent the views of all of us at this office. While I appreciate the effort to place us as a team, I feel this effort in particular does not represent the professional nature in which we conduct ourselves, and was posted without the permission of all of us on the team.
This behavior (OP) doesn't come off as unprofessional at all. You have nothing to worry about.
I get that you might feel upset if this was posted without your consent, but tech is becoming hollywood and there are plenty of people who'd like to hire a proven team.
I'm really interested in the belief system that led you to post this message. Details?
Please know that this post does not represent the views of all of us at this office. While I appreciate the effort to place us as a team, I feel this effort in particular does not represent the professional nature in which we conduct ourselves, and was posted without the permission of all of us on the team.
SF-based dev here. This behavior (OP) doesn't come off as unprofessional at all. You have nothing to worry about. I get that you might feel upset if this was posted without your consent, but tech is becoming hollywood and there are plenty of people who'd like to hire a proven team. I'm really interested in the belief system that led you to post this message. Details?