I was responsible for administrating an ADT security system for a Los Angeles-based startup (too many hats). Dealing with ADT was an absolute nightmare. Their support agents knew nothing about our configuration. ADT support technicians could take days to respond to a faulty sensor, which meant our operations folks would have to wake up at all hours of the night and check for false positives or disable the whole system. The experience led me to believe that office security systems are ripe for additional competition.
At least over here in the UK, ADT seemed to have an acquisition-based near monopoly in home alarm systems and acted every bit like you'd expect, and I wouldn't be surprised if commercial alarm systems were as bad.
Reminds me of dealing with Terminex dispatching exterminators to spray for insects in the arctic in the middle of winter when it was -20 deg F. There are lots of these service companies that are fall somewhere between inept and crooked.
The Block Crypto, Inc. | Head of Frontend Engineering | REMOTE | $100k-$130k + SIZABLE equity. The Block (https://www.theblockcrypto.com) is a VC-funded news media organization focussed on the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. We launched our newsletter and website in August 2018, onsite traffic and newsletter subs have grown tremendously since then. Apply here: https://tblck.co/hofe Email me with any questions jake@theblockcrypto.com
Anyone else having their office ISP connection totally destroyed by 100+ Dropbox clients attempting Monday morning sync? We have a balanced, 300Mbs connection for about 160 users, and our network becomes unreliable during 5 minute bursts throughout the day.
For anyone that hasn't experienced it first hand: "programmer" + "IT/computer guy" is a recipe for professional failure. The demands are so different and balancing them is impossible. You can be an IT person or software developer but never both at the same time. It is also a sign that whomever job description doesn't understand the difference.
Refinery29 is the cornerstone of fashion, beauty, and shopping for a new generation. In an industry dominated by traditional print publications with lackluster digital offerings, R29 has broken away and created a successful (profitable) all-digital personal style destination. We're expanding our engineering team, and require some talented, experienced individuals to help us improve the process and infrastructure which powers our high traffic website.
Please reach out to me via email: jake.mcgraw@refinery29.com or Twitter: @jakemcgraw if you're interested or have any questions.
* Senior Test Engineer *
We're still in the early phases of a more formal QA process at Refinery29. We know what we want, just not how to get there. Your job is to show us the way, help us implement a rock solid QA process. Here are some loose guidelines we came up with, but as I've indicated earlier, we're open to suggestions on how we should run this.
* Stabilize, expand and automate our testing process and infrastructure.
* Lead our software development team in designing testable code, which will primarily be in PHP using PHPUnit.
* Design a system for testing client-side functionality, Selenium, PhantomJS, whatever you want, it's up to you.
* Design test plans for larger software/architecture projects.
* Assist in legacy code documentation and setting documentation standards for future development.
* Senior Devops Engineer *
Over the last 7 months we've made huge improvements to our infrastructure to handle the high volumes of traffic we've received (30 day peak: 550Mb/s). We'd be hiring you as our first in house, dedicated Devops/Systems engineer to help us execute the improvements necessary to handle even larger traffic spikes.
* Design, optimize, monitor and maintain the server infrastructure for production, development, deployment and testing.
* Build tools to optimize infrastructure resources for our development team.
* Assist in cost projection for server infrastructure.
* Manage projects currently being executed by consulting systems team.
Again, please reach out to me via email: jake.mcgraw@refinery29.com or Twitter: @jakemcgraw if you're interested or have any questions.
