Attracting Talent That Bring Passion to Their Work

September 2nd, 2010 by Robert Merrill View Comments »

You will never attract passionate people to work for you until you create ways of letting people be passionate about the work they already do for you–and then find ways of letting that passion out into the world so that it can seek out, find, and attract others to you.

Sony gets it. Do you?

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Twitter Datacenter Opens in Utah

July 29th, 2010 by Robert Merrill View Comments »

Twitter‘s engineering blog noted last week that they are rolling out a Datacenter here in Utah to meet amazing increases in demand.

The success-plagued startup has garnered a lot of interest as well as frustration among its users who are "riding the rocket" of twitter’s incredible growth (the blog quotes 300,000 new accounts/day… amazing)

Keeping pace with these users and their Twitter activity presents some unique and complex engineering challenges (as John Adams, our lead engineer for application services, noted in a speech last month at the O’Reilly Velocity conference).

Interested in working @twitter? http://twitter.com/jobs

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