I'd love to pursue this as the evening hours work great for a single mom, but the Saturday requirement for the PT program makes it not possible for me. :(

Hey all, I'm a project manager/writer/producer/social media/community person with 12 years of experience in video games looking for a side gig. Looking for something remote-friendly in the evening time that I can do outside of my full-time job. Open to all sorts of ideas. I'm technical, but not looking for coding roles at this point. I'd love to find a content marketing/writing role where I can contribute articles, or a project management side gig.

Austin, TX

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Wordpress, Jira, Shopify, Trello, Google Suite, Git, HTML, CSS, Xcode, etc.

Resume/CV: http://www.tamisigmund.com/

Email: tami.sigmund+HN@gmail.com

Thanks!

Are you guys hiring any non-engineering types at all? Like community management/social media/customer service types? :)

I'm actually curious to hear how you built this! :) As someone learning to code, myself.

Lots of googling. You can see my favorite coding resources by typing learn_to_code in the terminal. Mostly just HTML/CSS with a nice js plugin plus the js time code. Feel free to ping me with other questions

I live in San Diego now, but I just moved back here from San Francisco. I've lived elsewhere in America. I never felt the disparity as much as I did in SF. I walked around being intensely aware of my privilege and it was uncomfortable.

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Looks to me like a retail shop for baby supplies. Unless that lady is picking out diapers and a brightly colored uniform for their new employee. :-)

I actually wonder if this means that SF-based startups (or those who are blindly following this 'culture hacks' mentality) are actually worse places to work overall? I wonder if focusing on the quick fixes like free lunch, company trips & ping pong tables ends up outweighing REAL company culture in terms of ROI.

Perhaps, but I think we're missing a crucial point of the article, which is that the culture needs to match the employees. For a startup that wants to hire a bunch of college grads, company trips + ping pong tables + Call of Duty + Friday keg sessions may actually increase productivity. Conversely, for a company trying to hire older, more experienced employees, such perks are considerably less appealing.

I think the general takeaway here is not that X is inherently bad, or Y is inherently good. Rather, it's that you need to know yourself, know the culture you're trying to create, and know the people you're trying to hire, rather than trying to imitate whatever perks happen to be trendy at the moment.

My sense is that non-SF startups can be inclined to ape these "features." Not all of them, of course, but I've certainly seen it in at least a couple of cases. I mean, here we all are reading about them, right? Lots here don't live in SF, but do take their culture cues from whatever information sources they have. "This is the way they do it in the old country."

Have you worked at many non-sf-startup companies? Just because you don't have foosball and catered lunch doesn't mean you're doing squat to build a "culture."

There are a number of people out there who have a very rigid view of what "startup culture" means. I've seen it in first time as well as repeat entrepreneurs. Often they thing hard work, spending free time together, need the perks, everyone will always have the same rah-rah approach.

People have lives, hobbies, different interests. The best companies are those that have a management team that embrace peoples differences, nurture where needed, give space where appropriate, and cultivate a culture where people feel like they are contributing in the way they best can and allowing them paths to grow.

San Francisco - full time/onsite (no remote) Backend Server Engineer, reloc offered.

We make freemium iOS games and are located in the SoMa neighborhood.

You'll be doing development in PHP and Python (we would prefer people heavier on the Python side)

You'll be responsible for MySQL database schema design for any features you build

You'll be working with a series of production Redis deployments, and should know when data belong here vs MySQL.

You'll be given a fair amount of work freedom, and be expected to manage yourself. "With great power comes great responsibility" and all that...

You'll be using Git and Github

You'll be reviewing your fellow server engineers' code, and getting your own reviewed on a regular basis

You'll grow incredibly familiar with Amazon Web Services, if you aren't already

You'll be talking about games. A lot. And playing some too, if you like.

There are also web programmers in the game industry.

Yes! Excellent point.

Note also that all those careers are fungible insofar as you can take those skills outside the gaming industry relatively easily.

Rails Installer was pretty close to this.