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<!doctype html><html lang=en dir=ltr class="blog-wrapper blog-post-page plugin-blog plugin-id-default" data-has-hydrated=false><meta charset=UTF-8><meta name=generator content="Docusaurus v3.6.0"><title data-rh=true>More "what companies really mean" | The Old Speice Guy</title><meta data-rh=true name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0"><meta data-rh=true name=twitter:card content=summary_large_image><meta data-rh=true property=og:url content=https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means><meta data-rh=true property=og:locale content=en><meta data-rh=true name=docusaurus_locale content=en><meta data-rh=true name=docusaurus_tag content=default><meta data-rh=true name=docsearch:language content=en><meta data-rh=true name=docsearch:docusaurus_tag content=default><meta data-rh=true property=og:title content='More "what companies really mean" | The Old Speice Guy'><meta data-rh=true name=description content="I recently stumbled across a phenomenal small article entitled"><meta data-rh=true property=og:description content="I recently stumbled across a phenomenal small article entitled"><meta data-rh=true property=og:type content=article><meta data-rh=true property=article:published_time content=2018-12-04T12:00:00.000Z><link data-rh=true rel=icon href=/img/favicon.ico><link data-rh=true rel=canonical href=https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means><link data-rh=true rel=alternate href=https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means hreflang=en><link data-rh=true rel=alternate href=https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means hreflang=x-default><script data-rh=true type=application/ld+json>{"@context":"https://schema.org","@id":"https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means","@type":"BlogPosting","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bradlee Speice"},"dateModified":"2024-11-09T22:08:29.000Z","datePublished":"2018-12-04T12:00:00.000Z","description":"I recently stumbled across a phenomenal small article entitled","headline":"More \"what companies really mean\"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://speice.io/","@type":"Blog","name":"Blog"},"keywords":[],"mainEntityOfPage":"https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means","name":"More \"what companies really mean\"","url":"https://speice.io/2018/12/what-small-business-really-means"}</script><link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml href=/rss.xml title="The Old Speice Guy RSS Feed"><link rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href=/atom.xml title="The Old Speice Guy Atom Feed"><link rel=stylesheet href=https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.13.24/dist/katex.min.css integrity=sha384-odtC+0UGzzFL/6PNoE8rX/SPcQDXBJ+uRepguP4QkPCm2LBxH3FA3y+fKSiJ+AmM crossorigin><link rel=stylesheet href=/assets/css/styles.ae6ff4a3.css><script src=/assets/js/runtime~main.751b419d.js defer></script><script src=/assets/js/main.62ce6156.js defer></script><body class=navigation-with-keyboard><script>!function(){var t,e=function(){try{return new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get("docusaurus-theme")}catch(t){}}()||function(){try{return window.localStorage.getItem("theme")}catch(t){}}();t=null!==e?e:"light",document.documentElement.setAttribute("data-theme",t)}(),function(){try{for(var[t,e]of new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).entries())if(t.startsWith("docusaurus-data-")){var a=t.replace("docusaurus-data-","data-");document.documentElement.setAttribute(a,e)}}catch(t){}}()</script><div id=__docusaurus><div role=region aria-label="Skip to main content"><a class=skipToContent_fXgn href=#__docusaurus_skipToContent_fallback>Skip to main content</a></div><nav aria-label=Main class="navbar navbar--fixed-top"><div class=navbar__inner><div class=navbar__items><button aria-label="Toggle navigation bar" aria-expanded=false class="navbar__toggle clean-btn" type=button><svg width=30 height=30 viewBox="0 0 30 30" aria-hidden=true><path stroke=currentColor stroke-linecap=round stroke-miterlimit=10 stroke-width=2 d="M4 7h22M4 15h22M4 23h22"/></svg></button><a class=navbar__brand href=/><div class=navbar__logo><img src=/img
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<a href=https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-you target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">What Startups Really Mean By "Why Should We Hire You?"</a>.
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Having been interviewed by smaller companies (though not exactly startups), the questions and
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subtexts are the same. There's often a question behind the question that you're actually trying to
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answer, and I wish I spotted the nuance earlier in my career.</p>
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<p>Let me also make note of one more question/euphemism I've come across:</p>
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<h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id=how-do-you-feel-about-production-support>How do you feel about production support?<a href=#how-do-you-feel-about-production-support class=hash-link aria-label="Direct link to How do you feel about production support?" title="Direct link to How do you feel about production support?"></a></h2>
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<p><strong>Translation</strong>: <em>We're a fairly small team, and when things break on an evening/weekend/Christmas
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Day, can we call on you to be there?</em></p>
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<p>I've met decidedly few people in my life who truly enjoy the "ops" side of "devops". They're
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incredibly good at taking an impossible problem, pre-existing knowledge of arcane arts, and turning
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that into a functioning system at the end. And if they all left for lunch, we probably wouldn't make
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it out the door before the zombie apocalypse.</p>
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<p>Larger organizations (in my experience, 500+ person organizations) have the luxury of hiring people
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who either enjoy that, or play along nicely enough that our systems keep working.</p>
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<p>Small teams have no such luck. If you're interviewing at a small company, especially as a "data
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scientist" or other somesuch position, be aware that systems can and do spontaneously combust at the
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most inopportune moments.</p>
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<p><strong>Terrible-but-popular answers include</strong>: <em>It's a part of the job, and I'm happy to contribute.</em></div></article><nav class="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg" aria-label="Blog post page navigation"><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev" href=/2018/10/case-study-optimization><div class=pagination-nav__sublabel>Older post</div><div class=pagination-nav__label>A case study in heaptrack</div></a><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next" href=/2018/12/allocation-safety><div class=pagination-nav__sublabel>Newer post</div><div class=pagination-nav__label>QADAPT - debug_assert! for allocations</div></a></nav></main><div class="col col--2"><div class="tableOfContents_bqdL thin-scrollbar"><ul class="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><a href=#how-do-you-feel-about-production-support class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">How do you feel about production support?</a></ul></div></div></div></div></div><footer class=footer><div class="container container-fluid"><div class="footer__bottom text--center"><div class=footer__copyright>Copyright © 2024 Bradlee Speice</div></div></div></footer></div>
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