A new year is always the perfect time to break the cycle. Stop doing what you hate, and find something you love to take its place. This includes job hunting — if you hate your job, do something else. Like everyone else, we’re eagerly hiring, so if you are intrigued by what we do, here’s what we look for:
Have a side project you’re passionate about? Figure out how to get it done!
The story goes something like this:
Girl gets a phone call. Girl is invited to go out. It’s raining. Girl doesn’t want to melt in the rain. Mom kicks Girl out of the house. Mom orders Girl to go out and have fun. Girl goes out, meets a group from a San Francisco company called Expensify. Apparently, the entire company is working and backpacking for a whole month in Croatia. Girl laughs with fascination and some disbelief but Girl doesn’t dwell on that because Girl is absolutely fascinated with the energy, drive, and passion each person exudes when talking about the company, coworkers, the CEO, and basically just how much they love what they do. Continue Reading…
Our challenges have fewer walls and and more coding, but same idea.
It’s widely repeated that “great people are 100x more productive than average people.” But while everybody says it, most companies just hire 100x more average people. At Expensify, we try very, very hard to hold the line and only hire people we think are truly great. This means that despite ample resources and more than enough work to go around, we hire extremely slowly — and spend an enormous amount of energy doing it. A lot of that energy is directed toward refining the hiring process itself, with a major recurring topic being: what makes someone great? Continue Reading…
