A day in the life of a Standout Jobs hacker

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In case you don’t know it yet, we’re hiring more Ruby hackers at Standout Jobs!

Instead of trying to convince you that this is the best place to work, I’ll describe my typical day of work and let you judge if this is the right thing for you.

7 AM

Sleeping

7:30 AM

Sleeping

8 AM

Wake up!

8:15 AM

Back to sleep

8:30 AM

All right, I feel like an early-riser today!

Narrator: In fact at Standout Jobs, there’s not schedule, arrive when you want! Just get things done!

9:30 AM

Arrive at the office, grab a juice in the fridge. Say hi to Ben. Ben has one of the 5K most popular blog in the world. He’s so famous, people ask him for autographs on the beach! He’s at the office at like 4 AM, he never sleeps (he has 2 kids).

9:32 AM

Put my Mac Book Pro next to my Apple Cinema Display, my keyboard and mouse and sit on my CEOish chair.

Narrator: as a Standout Jobs employee, you’ll get a all the Apple stuff you’re dreaming of!

10 AM

Reading some news in my Google Reader while looking at the Mount Royal.

10:15 AM

Check out tickets in Trac to see what needs to be done. Accept one, svn up, mate ., put my headphones on and I’m gone in my coder’s bubble.

10:20 AM

Fred arrives at bicycle and does a little swing dance while going to his desk. (Fred can dance, code, bicycle all at the same time, plus he’s always in the newspaper or some internet tv show. He’s famous too!)

10:30 AM

Daniel arrives not at bicycle. Daniel dances too, has a blog, code and presented at more DemoCamps then you would think humanly possible. He’s a famous Ruby Guru too!

11 AM

code, code, code, code

11:30 AM

Most of the time we communicate throught our Campfire chatroom. This is a lot better then behing continuously interupted. You can ignore if you’re deep into some code, but most of the time, it’s serious stuff!

Fred N.	So… if a train stops at a train station… and a bus stops at a bus station…
Fred N.	what happens at a work station
Marc-André C.	hard one
Marc-André C.	you stop working ?
Fred N.	you also park on a driveway
Fred N.	and drive on a parkway

… ok bad example.

12 PM

Feeling hungry and realize Fred and Daniel are there.

12:30 PM

Eating spaghettis in Ikea plates while watching some Ted Talk videos on youtube.

1 PM

Making coffee, while talking about some styling issues with Fred.

1:30 PM

Discuss (argue) some design decisions with Daniel.

Narrator: unlike many places, we believe in beautiful code and writing tests. We’re hackers and we sometimes get emotional when something is one pixel off or one space is missing or not properly aligned. We do more then care about our craft, we’re passionate about it!

2 PM

In our Campfire chat room:

Bot	marc commited r1756…
Bot	Adding some code and fixing things A standoutjobs/trunk/-------- A standoutjobs/trunk/----- A standoutjobs/trunk/-------/---------

Narrator: Whenever someone commits something to the subversion tree a message is sent in the chat room. This way we know what everyone is doing. We also get notified of build failures. Hey the chat room can display useful stuff too!

3 PM

But chat room is only for serious, corporate stuff, always:

Daniel H.	cool
Fred N.	cool
Marc-André C.	cool
Daniel H.	67 errors => 0
Marc-André C.	oh! you broke the cool chain!!
Daniel H.	oh no
Daniel H.	solving 67 errors in one go is very cool
Marc-André C.	you’re right
Marc-André C.	very cool
Daniel H.	very cool
Fred N.	very very cool

… ok bad example again! But I swear we have some deep tech discussions in the chatroom!

4 PM

Coding and fixing more tickets on Trac.

5:30 PM

Goodbye pretty office, I’ll miss you!

(While Marc is on his way home, in the Standout Chatroom …)

Bot	Why did you do this marc ? You broke standoutjobs-trunk build !

9:30 PM

Back on the computer, see the build failing!!! Aaaaah!

Bot	Fix the damn build U standoutjobs/trunk/------------------
Bot	Holy cow! marc fixed standoutjobs-trunk build again and again and again! *WOW!*

The End

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