Let me tell you about my crazy experience with Meteor.
The year: 2015. I had just graduated from Dev Bootcamp in NYC and was desperately searching for my first engineering job. I came across a job posting on Craigslist for a startup that sounded promising. It was one of the few interviews I could even get. They told me next to nothing about the job, and literally nothing about the product, except that it would be built with Meteor.
The whole interview process was the weirdest I’ve ever been in. The two founders brought in four candidates (myself included) into a single conference room and told us they were going to hire two of us. They then went on and on for an hour telling us about how successful and genius they were, and that they were going to be building something 10 times more successful than Facebook. The whole interview was essentially a lightning round of JS trivia questions (type coercion edge cases and such). First to answer correctly got a point and so on.
Naive me, I remember building out a whole Meteor project trying to impress them. They took about three weeks to tell me that I had gotten the job and they were ready to tell me what the product was, I just had to sign an NDA, get it notarized, and hand deliver it to them.
Before I could deliver the NDA to them, they told me the terms of my offer—$13/hr at 20 hours per week. No benefits or equity, obviously. BUT, I would get 1% of any profits.
Making minimum wage in NYC with no potential for upside gain was not in the cards for me, but it did drive me to learn about Meteor—a technology I wasted about two months with before abandoning because no one in their right mind was using it.
Ha looks like I dodged a bullet. I graduated Dev Bootcamp SF in 2014 and one of the few interviews I could get was a shop that claimed to be "Meteor Pioneers", their entire stack was Meteor. They ended up ghosting me in the final round and I ended up landing a job at a python shop.
It’s probably neglectable anyway. There were a lot of attempts to build FB competing products in that timeframe, I remember running into some simila job posts which of course I ignored. It was like a social media gold rush. Most of them were bases on a technical solution without much business foresight.
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Let me tell you about my crazy experience with Meteor.
The year: 2015. I had just graduated from Dev Bootcamp in NYC and was desperately searching for my first engineering job. I came across a job posting on Craigslist for a startup that sounded promising. It was one of the few interviews I could even get. They told me next to nothing about the job, and literally nothing about the product, except that it would be built with Meteor.
The whole interview process was the weirdest I’ve ever been in. The two founders brought in four candidates (myself included) into a single conference room and told us they were going to hire two of us. They then went on and on for an hour telling us about how successful and genius they were, and that they were going to be building something 10 times more successful than Facebook. The whole interview was essentially a lightning round of JS trivia questions (type coercion edge cases and such). First to answer correctly got a point and so on.
Naive me, I remember building out a whole Meteor project trying to impress them. They took about three weeks to tell me that I had gotten the job and they were ready to tell me what the product was, I just had to sign an NDA, get it notarized, and hand deliver it to them.
Before I could deliver the NDA to them, they told me the terms of my offer—$13/hr at 20 hours per week. No benefits or equity, obviously. BUT, I would get 1% of any profits.
Making minimum wage in NYC with no potential for upside gain was not in the cards for me, but it did drive me to learn about Meteor—a technology I wasted about two months with before abandoning because no one in their right mind was using it.
Ha looks like I dodged a bullet. I graduated Dev Bootcamp SF in 2014 and one of the few interviews I could get was a shop that claimed to be "Meteor Pioneers", their entire stack was Meteor. They ended up ghosting me in the final round and I ended up landing a job at a python shop.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Funny story. I would love to know what their product was. I understand you are bound by the NDA, but maybe you can share some of the surface?
It’s probably neglectable anyway. There were a lot of attempts to build FB competing products in that timeframe, I remember running into some simila job posts which of course I ignored. It was like a social media gold rush. Most of them were bases on a technical solution without much business foresight.
I never found out since I never gave them the NDA, but I also suspect it was some sort of FB competitor.
Laughing at this, thanks for sharing.