An Open Letter
My name is Tim Martin. I own this company with one other person, Mike Rustici. We hire exceptional software developers.
You want to work here. If you’re a great software developer, you really want to work here.
We value life outside of the office. People who work here don’t work more than 40 hour weeks. Seriously, we don’t let them. We don’t have a vacation policy. If you are the kind of person for whom we have to count vacation days, you’re not the right person. Take care of your work, take time off and live your life. I have no idea how many days off any of our employees took last year. Because they get their work done and done well, I just don’t care.
You want to work here. I wear a t-shirt to work everyday. Mike wears a collar, but we make fun of him for it. I play ping pong every day because the title of “King of the Table” is important. I care about our Office Mom’s bird Ripley because she cares about it.
You want to work here, because you’re good. We often dole out projects with a 10 minute conversation and a month to make it go. Show us that you’re good, and we’ll trust you to decide how something should work and when you’re going to do it. If you are uncomfortable learning new things and working through stuff yourself, you probably don’t want to work here.
You want to work here, because we're good. Check out the our website to see that (http://scorm.com). We recently invented the Tin Can API which is spreading like wildfire and reinventing our industry (http://tincanapi.com).
We take care of our employees. We have great benefits, and we have Jenafits. Jena is our company concierge. She makes sure every employee is happy and free from the hassles of everyday life like house cleaning, lawn care, post office runs, oil changes, etc. Yes, we take care of these things for our employees.
We're a small company with big-time clients and potential to match (I'm posting particular job ad from the Googleplex). You've probably never heard of us and you've probably never worked with us, but the people who have hold us in the highest esteem. If you're going to apply, make sure you know what we do. We are at the very center of the e-learning industry and we're always evolving our products and creating new ones.