I worked for a .com (a German company, so technically a .de) roughly from 1999 to 2003.
The way I got the job was by founding a startup in the same industry that was bought by said company.
We mostly believed the hype. However, for that particular company and industry it wasn’t all hype but founded on reasonable assumptions. The company had its problems and has been transformed several times over the years but it still exists to this day!
Working as a developer back then was different because that role wasn’t the more or less well-defined job it is today (or in larger, established companies for that matter).
As a developer you often were responsible for all things technical, from the office network to installing new servers hardware to actual software development. Basically, it was DevOps before there was DevOps - albeit in a much less well-structured manner.
Interestingly, back in the day designers and developers rarely worked together in the same team. It was more of a “We throw web design artefacts over the wall and see what happens.” set-up.
Comments
I worked for a .com (a German company, so technically a .de) roughly from 1999 to 2003.
The way I got the job was by founding a startup in the same industry that was bought by said company.
We mostly believed the hype. However, for that particular company and industry it wasn’t all hype but founded on reasonable assumptions. The company had its problems and has been transformed several times over the years but it still exists to this day!
Working as a developer back then was different because that role wasn’t the more or less well-defined job it is today (or in larger, established companies for that matter).
As a developer you often were responsible for all things technical, from the office network to installing new servers hardware to actual software development. Basically, it was DevOps before there was DevOps - albeit in a much less well-structured manner.
Interestingly, back in the day designers and developers rarely worked together in the same team. It was more of a “We throw web design artefacts over the wall and see what happens.” set-up.