How to land your dream job in Boulder and Denver, Colorado.
I’ve been helping clients build mission-driven executive and engineering teams, and helping friends find the best new opportunities for twenty-four years, which is a bit mind-bending. What’s even more mind-bending is the lack of clarity and even ‘resigned-to-whatever-may-come’ approach with which so many engineers and execs approach their searches. The ‘system’ seems to have beaten…
Sometimes when you meet someone in your community, you just CLICK. Everything aligns with regards to ethics, morals, values, world-view. It’s rare in the professional realm- and don’t get me wrong- we like to be challenged in our world view, but when you meet someone with THAT much alignment, it’s important to foster that…
Thank you to Jake Jorgovan and the Mile High Tech podcast for inviting me to join for this wide ranging discussion. We cover A LOT of ground from community building, living and working in the mountains of Colorado after 20 years in Boulder, maintaining and improving mental health in the startup realm and how candidates…
I was honored to be invited on the Scrimba Podcast recently to cover a topic that we tackle daily with job seekers of every level- finding the cultural AND technical attributes in an organization that resonate most with your personal values. It’s no easy task to define these values, much less find them in a…
Part Two of Two 22 Unique Approaches Startups Can Use to Attract and Retain Top Talent in 2022 In part one of this blog, we addressed the surprising hockey-stick-curve for software engineering salaries in North America in 2021. You can read the full blog here. Every week, more data comes to light around how employers…
Part 1 of 2 Software Engineering Salary Guides Were All Wrong in 2021- How We Got Here. Each year, countless organizations release their projected salary guides to help you plan your hiring budgets. Some of the data they use are based on historical increases of salaries targeting about 3 – 4.5% to adjust for inflation,…
We are THRILLED to have been retained by another mission-driven software company, UrbanSitter to help them scale their Executive and Engineering Teams. We worked very closely with the co-founders in building out this detailed job description. Feel free to ask us questions or throw your ring in the hat along with a cover letter and…
I’m the first to admit that while we pride ourselves as an organization in building more diverse and inclusive engineering teams and startup ecosystems, I’m relatively new to being a true anti-racist ally to Black and Brown communities in tech. Only in the past year have I come to understand that ‘not being a racist’…
An Unreasonable Opportunity for a Senior Rails Engineer I clearly remember the first time I heard about the work that Unreasonable was doing when I met one of the cofounders at a SOCAP Venture Meetup in Boulder in 2009. It was a small room of incredibly talented folks, driven to foster real societal change, doing…
