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5.2 KiB
Markdown
144 lines
5.2 KiB
Markdown
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## Final final interview for real
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I interview with a gazillion people, including Andrei, Filipe, the CTO and CPO.
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- Growth plans for business figures and for company/team headcount. Are we going to keep growing hard short-term, or am I coming in at the end of the hiring spree?i
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How much growth is new feature/product market fit, how much is just selling the same thing more
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Blue ocean market
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Focused on pricing and reporting
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How linearly does your sales/support growth
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That's something
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Tell them how much money you're saving
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is that 6 weeks inspired by the guys from basecamp?
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- How do you see the split of effort in running operations vs aiming for new experimental stuff both for this team and for the wider company?
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- Is growth from now funding driven or profits driven?
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- Could you tell me a bit about the stories of the two engineers you are planning on placing in the team?
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- Who would I be reporting to, how do Engineering Managers and Product Managers organize
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- How are you handling funding-driven-growth, ensuring you are not wasting money down the drain. How to avoid the chaos of many different squads independently managed compare to where you come from (a small focused team)
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Very european, non vc approach. Equity
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New one + Phu + Product Manger for
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On the spot notes:
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- Kamlesh
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- Yurii
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- in reservations team
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- Developer three years part of the data team and pipeline
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- Kamlesh
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- Based in amsterdam
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- in reservations team
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- Jörg
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CTO and founder
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- Bebeto senior product manager integrations normally in
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I'm excited about joining. Some of you don't know, but I was previously the data lead for a small SaaS that also operated by delivering services to small operators via their PMSs. I had a blast running the team and I see many similarities with this opportunity. Also, I really like the pricing domain. I think it's a little tough domain where you can createa lot of value for many people with a small team and a bit of good technology. What's not to like about it?
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## Final interview
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I interview with Andrei and Lars.
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Andrei Data and integration side
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Lars responsible for growth
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My questions:
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- On the company:
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- What does the distribution of equity look like? Is only Five Elms invested? Who has the majority?
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- Is it profitable already?
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- How many people working currently?
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- What is the growth trend? Figures of volume/sales/etc + plans
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- VC-grow and sell, or looking to become a cash cow
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- On the vacancy:
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- How do you see the future for this vacancy? What are the growth opportunities?
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- What's the contract type you are offering?
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- Truly, 100% remote.
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- My expectations are somewhere between 90-110K€ gross per year. Does that work? Also, how is compensation structured? 100% fixed or something else? Equity?
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- What is the story around the vacancy? Is it replacing a departure, or expanding the team? Who are these engineers working with right now?
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- How are the teams organized, and how does this vacancy and its team fit into that picture?
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- On the product:
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- How much revenue comes from direct delivery and how much comes from partners?
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- Is it more of a backend and just deliver via PMS, or do users typically spend a lot of time in their RoomPriceGenie app?
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- How is the interview process organized?
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- Software stack
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- Productivity stack
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- Engineering frameworks practices? What is the freedom each engineering manager has?
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- Do you guys do on call rotations?
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Dagster/Snowflake/Cube.js/
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gitlab/terraform
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1.5months and half
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50% growth
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4000 hotels
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My rethoric on why change:
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- Galoy was a risky bet and now I'm realizing it's not going in the direction I would like.
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- I don't want to invest more time in a project that I don't think it's getting places. It was great but now I'm looking for something more mature.
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- I miss leading a team
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- I miss the beautiful pace of the B2C-ish company
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My rethoric on why RoomPriceGenie:
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- I understand the value proposal of the product and it's great. I've somewhat familiar with the domain and think a solutions like yours makes all the sense.a
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- I've been in all sorts of companies regarding size, I think the size you're sitting at right now is the one I crave now
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- You have some pretty good glassdoor ratings
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- I like working for international, distributed companies. I see you guys have a gazillion
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My rethoric on why this vacancy:
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- Data work on a company and product like yours is super fun
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- Hands on + leading team is where I enjoy myself the most
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- Projects by other teams are growing in data volume and can't sustain it anymore
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- Working with a product manager, quarterly planning, new features, etc.
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- Create a hotel in roompricegenie, fetch data from similar locations (40tb of data per month), prepare data for revenue management, which does the pricing
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- current problems
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- done six years ago, with a backend mentality
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predictHQ
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cockpit team
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datadog
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alerts in slack
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on call team
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you create the team from scratch, with two data engineers, we want to grow but we need to analyze first
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you will be responsible for managing them
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Materials I consumed:
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- The posting itself: https://roompricegenie.com/careers/?ashby_jid=c72eaef9-f3e6-4a95-9856-a5b989446309
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- This video is gold: https://roompricegenie.com/demo-video/
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Meeting notes
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