Working for Big River
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The other day I got contacted by a manager at the Big River, the online book-and-everything seller, who said my C++/STL/Boost background made me an ideal candidate to work in their office in Cambridge, UK. Which is flattering and all, but I recall hearing they're a horrible place to work. A cursory search brings up a fair few articles to that effect, but also ones arguing they're not worse than other behemoths like Microsoft, Facebook or Google (mind you, the friends I have at Google are all very happy with them, so they might be an exception). So I'm curious to hear if any of you have any opinions?
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The other day I got contacted by a manager at the Big River, the online book-and-everything seller, who said my C++/STL/Boost background made me an ideal candidate to work in their office in Cambridge, UK. Which is flattering and all, but I recall hearing they're a horrible place to work. A cursory search brings up a fair few articles to that effect, but also ones arguing they're not worse than other behemoths like Microsoft, Facebook or Google (mind you, the friends I have at Google are all very happy with them, so they might be an exception). So I'm curious to hear if any of you have any opinions?
If you've got nothing better at the moment I'd say go and find out for yourself. Looks good on your resume, and if you decide it's a horrible place to work you can quit and call it "culture mismatch" or something. Never regret the things you didn't do.
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Regards, Sander
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The other day I got contacted by a manager at the Big River, the online book-and-everything seller, who said my C++/STL/Boost background made me an ideal candidate to work in their office in Cambridge, UK. Which is flattering and all, but I recall hearing they're a horrible place to work. A cursory search brings up a fair few articles to that effect, but also ones arguing they're not worse than other behemoths like Microsoft, Facebook or Google (mind you, the friends I have at Google are all very happy with them, so they might be an exception). So I'm curious to hear if any of you have any opinions?
Never heard of them and couldn't find any reference to them when googling *shrug* I've worked in Cambridge before, nightmare town for traffic :)
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Never heard of them and couldn't find any reference to them when googling *shrug* I've worked in Cambridge before, nightmare town for traffic :)
That might be because that's an alias, to avoid putting by name next to theirs. :-) There can't be that many big online book sellers named after big rivers, can there?
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If you've got nothing better at the moment I'd say go and find out for yourself. Looks good on your resume, and if you decide it's a horrible place to work you can quit and call it "culture mismatch" or something. Never regret the things you didn't do.
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
No, I've got a job I'm quite happy with, salary-, perk-, and commute-wise. I've worked on the outskirts of Cambridge (Fulbourn business park) before, and that was usually quite okay. This looks like it's closer to the town centre, though.
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That might be because that's an alias, to avoid putting by name next to theirs. :-) There can't be that many big online book sellers named after big rivers, can there?
:laugh: now I feel quite the fool :D
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That might be because that's an alias, to avoid putting by name next to theirs. :-) There can't be that many big online book sellers named after big rivers, can there?
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I googled all the UK rivers I know, and none of them seem to run a book selling business. ;)
Avon? ;-)
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Avon? ;-)
Mississippi
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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Mississippi
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.Does that run through London?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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The other day I got contacted by a manager at the Big River, the online book-and-everything seller, who said my C++/STL/Boost background made me an ideal candidate to work in their office in Cambridge, UK. Which is flattering and all, but I recall hearing they're a horrible place to work. A cursory search brings up a fair few articles to that effect, but also ones arguing they're not worse than other behemoths like Microsoft, Facebook or Google (mind you, the friends I have at Google are all very happy with them, so they might be an exception). So I'm curious to hear if any of you have any opinions?
River? Or Jungle? Anyway, I know someone who works for them in the US and says they are wonderful (that is if we are talking about the same company.) They have tried to recruit me a few times but it wasn't worth it for me.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Does that run through London?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
Try London, Kentucky[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
Try London, Kentucky[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.I would have bet there was as least one.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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The other day I got contacted by a manager at the Big River, the online book-and-everything seller, who said my C++/STL/Boost background made me an ideal candidate to work in their office in Cambridge, UK. Which is flattering and all, but I recall hearing they're a horrible place to work. A cursory search brings up a fair few articles to that effect, but also ones arguing they're not worse than other behemoths like Microsoft, Facebook or Google (mind you, the friends I have at Google are all very happy with them, so they might be an exception). So I'm curious to hear if any of you have any opinions?
