an average day at cjm search

-6:30a: wake up to my employee crying from her office after a rough 12 hours of sleep. change her diaper, feed her. grab my cofounder's leash and take him outside for a walk. feed the cofounder. 

-7a: brush my teeth and get the coffee brewing. 

-7:10a: drink an entire pot of coffee

-7:30a: clear email inbox while intermittently swatting away tiny employee's hands

-8a: eat breakfast, feed employee second breakfast 

-8;30a: turn on trolls or moana for distraction and throw about 20 toys on the floor. then find about 50ish emails/profiles to reach out to throughout the rest of the day

-9:30a: put employee down for nap after a hard morning's work. take about 2-3 calls and start emailing in remaining time

-10:45a: wake up to employee yelling from her office again. change employee's diaper and feed her again

-11:15a: take employee and cofounder to the dog park, so cofounder can get some energy out.

-11:45a: get back home and play toys/prep lunch for employee. 

-12p: eat lunch and feed employee lunch

-12:30p: email, email, email, play, play, play

-1:30p: employee is exhausted. put employee down for nap. do 2 more calls

-2:30p: employee yells at me again. change employees diaper. feed employee. 

-2:45p: meet candidate for coffee with employee. get groceries/run errands. 

-4p: play/emails! take cofounder outside for a walk around the block.

5p: feed cofounder and employee dinner. do all follow-up tasks/emails. 

5:30p: start dinner, make coffee for the AM, play toys. also, email, email, email

6:30p: give dirty employee a bath

6:40p: feed employee and get employee in pajamas. read employee a story

7p: put employee to bed

7:15p: 1 or 2 calls

7:45p: eat dinner 

8p: shower then, emails for an hour

9p: take cofounder around the block for a walk

9:15p: email, email, email

10p: lil chocolate, lil wine, lil email

10:30p: g'night!

bee technologies

guys, look at this company....

here's a reddit convo that kinda went viral on them. after an engineer applied to their backend eng role, they emailed him saying he 1. needed to complete a coding challenge and 2. work for free for three months. their job posting also said "please do not apply if you do not have the skill necessary to build something extraordinary" LOLOLOL. 

1. I really despise coding challenges. they don't tell you anything except if someone is absolutely terrible. and they really don't differentiate much between good and v good. they're also usually pretty insulting

did i mention this coding challenge was excessive?  they gave their candidates an entire WEEK (normal ones take anywhere from 30-90 min) to complete it and the challenge consisted of building a core part of their platform....

2. who the f would work for free for three months? these people should just learn to interview, read a resume and read a coding challenge and if someone turns out to be an asshole, they can just fire him/her, like a normal company. talk about starting off on the wrong foot...

and finally, this:

"please do not apply if you do not have the skill necessary to build something extraordinary"

this actually doesn't even make me mad. this is pure gold. i will enjoy reading that for another, about four hundred more times.

engineers moving on

It's always so rewarding to see engineers I place at certain companies doing well and enjoying their work. It's also rewarding to see those people move on to their next job (either through me or not) and be equally happy or happier. 

Yesterday two of my engineers and friends invited me to lunch at Facebook. They recently joined the Instagram team- one as an android developer, the other as a data engineer. I was able to bring June, join for lunch, get a tour and put her in the tiny conference room, which does not look so tiny any more... whoa ha!

Two of my other engineers, recently joined MongoDB as web devs. V cool to see that they were able to contribute to and be a part of this! 

June in FB's famous tiny conference room- not looking so tiny today

back to the tour

sorry. another unrelated post. but it is v important i share with you all the best burger in nyc (mind you, i have had 60 in the last year so plz trust me). 

the spaniard on w 4th st

new "office"

So, we moved from a 350 sq ft apartment to a 400 sq ft apartment...down the street.

Seems ridiculous but this place has one bedroom and also an office, which we have converted into a nursery, which is perfect because it has no windows (except for a little airway into our hallway). Finally. We don't have to start whispering in the dark at 7p onwards. 

Also, my husband is now off to work (I should be happy because $ but I would much rather him sit at home, eat all our food and make no money) so I have this entire palatial suite to myself. It's been much more productive for everyone, including Roy who now has about three extra lounging spots. OH, THE DECADENCE. 

pic is before man in red decided to get a job. ugh.

i die part 2

guys....... plz read this forbes article and plz see below. i really do die and lol

"No one is investing in a co-working company worth $20 billion. That doesn't exist," Neumann says. "Our valuation and size today are much more based on our energy and spirituality than it is on a multiple of revenue."

i die

yes

Hire

Interesting read

sometimes tech is not better

Obviously I'm a fan of engineering, technology, science-y things, etc. but when it comes to this juicer I LOL. I'm confused by how KPCB and Alphabet funded this $400 juice machine or how this product even went to market when the juice can just be cut open and squeezed out by hand--- oops ;(. When Bloomberg finally uncovered this ridiculously obvious blunder, Juicero came back and said that their machine makes this process of squeezing the juice "less messy" and that it reads a QR code to make sure the juice hasn't expired. The expiration date is also printed on the product... 

Sometimes there really is no need for tech solutions when it comes to something as simple as juice. 

ummm

first uber, then pepsi, then united...now cosmo, ummm what is happening???

poor (literally) elizabeth

oops

small spaces

I moved into NYC in the summer of 2014. At the time, I found what I thought was the perfect space for myself in the West Village. Three years later, my husband, dog and new baby all live in a 350 sq ft room. What's even more interesting is that this little home is also my work office and my husband's (currently in law school) study space. We share one desk and I mostly work on our tiny love seat. It's been a dream (No, I am not being sarcastic) to cozy up in this little place and spend our days together. I don't think we'll make it 14 years here, but thought this article was pretty neat. And I must agree- living in this tiny space has forced us all to evaluate what we really need and what really is just junk/unnecessary. 

Boober

Uber's hit some tough times, but nothing is quite as bad (or actually just good, pure gold) as Travis Kalanick nicknaming his company Boober because of all the girls he's gotten since becoming a billionaire. 

Vocational coding?

What if engineering isn't about changing the world and getting insanely rich?

Interesting article that reminds me of the majority of engineers we don't necessarily follow and I don't necessarily recruit.

I'll get back to recruiting after this. Promise.

Let's be honest- it's unfortunate. I am a lover of all trashy TV. 

This might be my new favorite show though.

Tie for first place

Have been on the burger tour for about eight months now and just now found a tie for first place. Corner Bistro was in the lead with 9.5 out of 10. Just went to Little Owl on Bedford St in the West Village the other day and it's a tie- another 9.5. Delicious burger and amazing spiced fries (fries don't count toward the burger rating, but it's definitely an added bonus). 

A break from recruiting for THIS (insert crying laughing emoji)

Lol at this amazing post. Wish I had thought to write it myself

Employee #3

I'd like to introduce CJM Search's newest employee, June Louise McGeehin. She plus my beagle-mix Roy make three. She was born 1/31/17 and spends most of her day eating (check out those chins) and sleeping, making her our company's laziest employee yet. 

wtf...?

this is insane-o

Airbnb

Pretty awesome.