He likes to have his “cigar” in while presenting… Tweet This Post

We lost one but gained 4! Heidi, Courtney, Christian and Kirill! We’re exited that our small team is growing and stronger than ever! Before she left, Ashley brought us Heidi Armstrong… she’s like Neil Armstrong… BAD ASS. Heidi is coming up to speed fast. She’s a natural born recruiter. Loves to talk to people and [...]

One of Wildcog’s founding recruiters, Ashley, has accepted a position with Google on the SRE recruiting team. We’ll miss Ashley but she will always be a cog at heart. The SRE team at Google has some of the best engineers on the planet. Ashley is laid back and has a genuine love for geeky things [...]

Including coffee. Shon and Ashley are about to swig their fresh Bacon Maple Lattes from Pirate Radio Cafe. MMMMmm… BACON! Tweet This Post

Up and to the right! Scale is a big thing these days. Web applications operating at “net scale”. Hard, interesting problems. Changes that effect hundreds of millions or billions of users instantly. Neat, very demanding stuff. Speaking of scale,  Wildcog is now recruiting for 1 of the top 10 most-hit-highest-traffic-most-unique-and-repeat-vistors sites in the world. In [...]

When you work in recruiting you get to see a lot of hiring. Hiring generates data. Data should generate intelligence…. in a perfect world. Wildcog brings you “the 30 day cliff”. It’s a statistical point of no return. Sort of like a recruiting event-horizon. Basically after 30 days “in process” the likelihood that a candidate will accept [...]

Languages would be bands: Scala:         Only for the cooooolest companies and projects. Erlang:       Pretty damned cool but not as cool as Scala. Python:      Cool but getting too mainstream for anyone really indie. Ruby:         Ruby is pretty and her friend Rails is easy. PHP:          Way too popular to be cool. Java:          It makes business people [...]

Here’s Tangie during her tax presentation to Wildcog board members: Tweet This Post

We see a lot of resumes. Let’s say ~500 per month. 1000′s per year. Some are good. Many are bad. Not because the people are bad, but because people, humans in general, are just little pattern matching machines. We judge ‘good’ from ‘bad’ based on experience. Usually this works pretty well. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes [...]

Muhaha… while explaining NP-C to Ash I found this XKCD. =D Tweet This Post

TallChair and Wildcog get down to business. And take a quick break for some more ice cream… Tweet This Post

Wildcog is working in the Mission at the Tall Chair Productions HQ. We stepped out for some killer tacos and a few scoops of amazing ice cream. Anya lost her ice cream after the first lick! Tweet This Post

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So what makes a resume an Ach Ja! and what makes it a Nicht-Nicht? When we are looking at resumes it makes us really happy when we see detailed descriptions for every job on what projects the person has worked on and with what technologies.  When we come across resumes like that, we immediately say: [...]

Our first bizSessions event is on 7/14/09. This is the business focused counterpart to geekSessions. Come check it out and stop by the Wildcog table to say hi! And that’s not all! We’re gearing up for a new geekSessions on Key Value Databases. But before we do that, we thought we’d throw a litte mmmmixer [...]

The wildpigs have discovered the latest snacking craze! “Doritos Late Night, Last Call, Jalapeno Popper” chips.  While none of us profess to be super huger fans of the TGIF appetizer Jalapeno Poppers, these chips are certainly awesome.  Maybe we are just swayed by the name “late night last call,” or maybe the chemical cream cheese [...]

Our office is small so we like to get out for a change of scenery. We’ve been known to decend upon, and rule various coffee shops and public spaces in the city from time to time. It’s nice to move around and mix things up. However, this can be counter productive at times if the [...]

Our new design focused pixelSessions event went very well with a packed house! Tweet This Post

The innagural Wildcog Taco Eating Competition. A photo essay: Tweet This Post

I heard a rumor that Twitter brought in Accenture and was headed for j2ee on the back-end. But according to this article they’re moving to Scala for the cool factor… er I mean, scalabily purposes. Can Scala crush the dreaded “too many tweets” problem? Tweet This Post