Reasons to work at Spock

Spock is a start up search engine focused on finding people – plugged by Tim O’Reilly himself! So I took a look at the site…..it looks like a great idea. As usual I was interested in the culture and energy in the company, and how “connected” it seemed to be. I was impressed by the pseudo-subliminal marketing (adding the line “Spock is Awesome” at the foot of the registration “thank you” box is a clever. Stuff like that really works). But it was the “jobs at Spock” page that convinced me they were switched on. The top reasons for working there were:

5. Free lunch every day and tons of snacks to keep you full all day.
4. We still have a very small engineering team. You won't be a cog in the wheel here
3. Giant flat-panel monitors for all engineers and a new Mac or PC.
2. You get to work with Jay.
1. SPOCK has potential to be a part of every Internet user's daily life!

I’ll leave you to find out about Jay yourself. And I'm 100% behind the giant flat panels. These guys really know how to attract talent!

The other thing that got my attention were the job titles, three of which were:
• Backend Rails Developer
• Crawler Architect
• Information Retrieval Engineer

I love the way new technology creates the neeed for new roles and skills. I am pretty sure no one could explain what a Crawler Architect is to my dear old mother!