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<div>Hi guys,</div><div><br></div><div>I generally don't get involved with the recruiter flaming on here, but I feel I should add some clarity on this one.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm heading up the London branch of the Wildfire engineering team. When we started a couple of months ago, James Tucker (our CTO in California) wrote to this list explaining what we're about and what we're trying to do. </div><div><br></div><div>You can find his post here: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2012-January/006846.html</div><div><br></div><div>For those that don't know, James is the maintainer of Rack. He also contributes to EventMachine and Rubygems itself. Other guys on our 45-strong team have contributed to Rails and other significant OSS projects.</div><div><br></div><div>As we all know, finding excellent Ruby developers is hard: market forces are against us. That's exactly why Wildfire have opened a London office - to tap into a new hiring pool. Our strategy has been to scour Github for London-based developers who are using Ruby actively and expertly.</div><div><br></div><div>In terms of interviewing, we are really very stringent about only hiring people with excellent skills which can complement the existing team. Also, Wildfire's culture is a very important part of the hiring process - we're up on GlassDoor as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco area and we're working to establish the same kind of great working environment in London.</div><div><br></div><div>Just yesterday there was a TechCrunch article which shows where the company is currently at: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/wildfire/ - so that gives a bit of perspective about the company as a whole.</div><div><br></div><div>Our approach has so far been very successful. In two months we've grown the team to 7 and I'm really excited about our next steps.</div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, Graham's right. I've worked with him in the past and he's a really excellent engineer. However, I know he's recently moved to Manchester and is founding his own startup. Very best of luck there, Graham. :)</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps, please give me a shout if you have any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Steven</div><div><br></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 13:25, Sam Livingston-Gray wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>I got a remarkably similar email targeted toward their California office. This was despite having a FAQ page on my site describing my strong lack of interest in relocation (and a blurb on the front page specifically directing recruiters to the FAQ before asking me about their Bay Area jobs!), so Ruthie can't be paying *that* much attention. :)<br><br><div>--</div>(Sent from phone; please excuse brevity.)</div><div><br>On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:36 AM, Jon Wood <<a href="mailto:jon@blankpad.net">jon@blankpad.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Ok, I'll confess.<div><br></div><div>I got my current job through one of these emails - I was however already looking at the time I received it, and the job described was basically my dream job.</div><div><br></div><div>When I'm not actively looking for work, I'll delete them without reading much further than the first paragraph.</div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div></div>
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<span><div><div><br><div><div>On 22 Mar 2012, at 06:50, Chris Kimpton wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>They were impressed by me too :P </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I only ever read as far as I can before the email client catches up with my pressing of the delete key, so I never get far enough down the emails to check whether they were impressed or not :)</div><div><br></div><div>Seriously, these emails must work, though, or they wouldn't send them, right? Who responds to them then? Go on, own up :)</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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