What I do feel comfortable saying is I’ve developed an appreciation for constraints and the forcing function nature it imposes on organizations to make hard decisions. I won’t go into too much detail about Jetblack, just that it wasn’t for me and I left after only being there for 7 months. Instead, I found an entirely different beast.
This backing, I believed, would enable the technology organization to avoid running into common issues that I’d seen so far with other startups (mainly a lack of funds that would prevent hiring). I joined Jetblack with the hopes of having impact at a young company with ambitious goals that also had the backing of a larger organization. Didn’t I just start a new job?īefore being at Dropbox, I was a Lead Engineer over at Jetblack, a smaller startup that had been spun out of Walmart’s incubator arm. While this line of work isn’t that much of a departure from what I’ve been working on for the past 7 years, it is a big change for me because Dropbox is the largest and most established company I’ve ever worked for in my professional career. The most recent report showed that the median price of a one-bedroom last month was $2,830, a 20.3% decrease from September 2019, according to Zumper. Of the largest 10 cities in the San Francisco metro, Apartment List found that all rental prices declined in September.Four weeks ago I started working at Dropbox as an Engineering Manager for Mobile. Twitter, Square and Slack were among the first tech companies to change to a permanent virtual office, while companies like Facebook and Microsoft have announced more flexible options for the future.Īs more tech employees have been able to leave Silicon Valley in tandem with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, rents have been dropping quickly in San Francisco. In our internal surveys most employees say they’re able to be productive at home (nearly 90%) and don’t want to return to a rigid five-day in-office workweek.” “We believe the data shows the shift to remote work, though abrupt, has been successful overall,” the company said in the blog post. The company also extended its mandatory work-from-home policy through June 2021.
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