This one grabbed my attention. I spent two years at @TaosTech. They’re the reason I moved to SF, started my own consulting firm, and met some wonderful people. It’s probably the best job I ever had.
Very savvy move by @ibmcloud.
Very savvy move by @ibmcloud.
https://twitter.com/pcarvao/status/1349771709935624194
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The @TaosTech technical interview is a thing of genius. It's standardized, modeled after SAGE levels, and reshaped how I think about hiring engineers.
The @TaosTech technical interview is a thing of genius. It's standardized, modeled after SAGE levels, and reshaped how I think about hiring engineers.
At the time my biggest gripe with Taos was that they didn't have a role into which I "fit." With the benefit of hindsight that's not their fault; I don't fit in anywhere, which is why I'm here.
Every company biases for something. @TaosTech biases for speed. If you have a project and need 4 engineers on the other side of the country next Monday who all know something esoteric and weird, Taos will find them and deliver them to you.
That's how they got me.
That's how they got me.
They're not perfect. At the time, they didn't see the value in my speaking at conferences, or in having community presence. That changed, but only seriously after I left. Before the Duckbill Group, Taos was my longest stint at one company.
But Taos's superpower was and is its people. My current colleagues @mike_julian and @jesse_derose worked there with me. That's how I met Jesse.
And I got to meet some amazing people. @GeorgeWHerbert and @Julie_Gund are the two that are active on Twitter, but an awful lot of folks in the DevOps space did a stint there. People joined, grew, and moved on. Then a lot of us became clients.
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