We’re a strategy, development, training and consulting company that recently moved into the web hosting space. We like doing things that haven’t been done before, and we’re looking for great people to join us.
Our development, training, support and marketing departments each have positions with immediate availability. The majority of us are in the Portland, Oregon area, but as a distributed company we welcome remote workers.
What makes us different
Customers who we work with love us for our dedication to the high quality of our work, how we exceed their expectations and that we communicate with honesty, integrity and transparency. See our Clients list and Case Studies for an idea of the challenging and exciting work that we do.
Our team loves us for the same reasons, and for our company culture, our highly competitive rates and our in-house training and mentoring program. As a team member, you’ll find your freedom and salary are unmatched elsewhere.
We’re deeply dedicated to contributing to both the WordPress and Drupal projects and communities, and we offer paid time for our community contributions, including WordPress plugins, Drupal modules, and event organizing.
What we want to know about you
The skills that we value the most are communication, collaboration and community contribution. If you’d like to join our team or would just like us to keep you in mind for future work, send us an email at jobs@largerobot.com
Please note that we are looking for individuals, not agencies or recruiters. When contacting us, tell us about the following:
- Your WordPress.org or Drupal.org username.
- Your resume and LinkedIn profile.
- Your other specialties, whether they be design, theming, development, system administration, training, project management, etc.
- A list of WordPress plugins, Drupal modules, or themes that you maintain or contribute to..
- Your location (i.e. the time zone you’re usually in) and if you’re a morning lark or a night owl
- Where you’d like to go for the next Large Robot company retreat.
For extra credit, check out the questions that our team has selected. You’re also welcome to tell us about your other interests and communities you participate in, both online and offline.
Rock stars need not apply
Large Robot is a company of talented and passionate people and while we like rock stars as much as anyone else, we like working together and getting things done more than watching someone perform. We embrace participation and like the idea that we should be working with people rather than working for them.
Our core values set us apart from the rest and two of those values are good communication and mutual respect. We make an effort to tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. This is important when working with one another, and it’s equally important when working with our clients and partners.
In short, the people we want to work with are great at what they do, demonstrate leadership and guide people to be their best. Rock stars, or people who take all the credit and attention, are egotistical and hard to work with, and who may or may not have what it takes to get the job done but insists they do anyway, need not apply.
Questions
If you’re like us, you love a good puzzle. It’s not always easy for us to see how a person thinks and likes to work just from reading their resume and that’s why this list is here. Don’t worry, we already know the answers and would love to hear from you whether you know the answers or not.
Include your responses to any of the questions below when contacting us and we’ll have something to talk about when we get back to you. Some of these are trivia questions and a correct answer tells us that you either know your industry or are good at doing research.
For questions that don’t have a single answer, help us understand your process by explaining how you’d go about finding the solution. If there’s another question that you think belongs in this list, let us know at jobs@largerobot.com
General Questions:
- A client informs you today that they have 10GB of files that you need for a Large Robot team meeting tomorrow. Those files are on a server in their office under their control. How would you ask them to get those files to you in time?
- Which tools or services for time tracking and project management are your current favorites and why?
- Coffee, tea or energy drink?
- Which frameworks and content management systems have you used, and which is your favorite?
- Why do you want to work with Large Robot?
- Is there another question that you think belongs in this list? Let us know at jobs@largerobot.com
Questions for Project Managers
- If you described Agile in just one word, what would it be?
- Would you describe yourself as a project manager, business analyst or project architect?
- What are some of the flavors of project management and how many years of experience do have in each? Do you have any certifications?
- In percents, what is the ideal amount of project management time for a project?
- What’s your favorite Agile methodology and why?
- Think of a project you managed in the past that failed. What would you have done differently to prevent it from failing?
- Is there another question that you think belongs in this list? Let us know at jobs@largerobot.com
Questions for Developers and Themers:
- A social network has friending and video submissions with voting. Members can vote on their friends’ videos and a message is automatically sent to the submitter of a video when a video receives a vote. Which WordPress plugins or Drupal modules would you use?
- Which contrib theme on Drupal.org was the first to include a reference guide containing all of Drupal core’s classes and IDs?
- Compared to other open source, PHP-based content management systems, Drupal has excellent built-in search features. What are the strengths and, in particular, what are the weaknesses of Drupal’s core Search module and what alternatives exist?
- Which development environment or IDE do you use? How does it compare to others that you’ve used and would you be interested in presenting your favorite tips and tricks at a meetup or conference?
- Is there another question that you think belongs in this list? Let us know at jobs@largerobot.com
Questions for Social Media Managers:
- Which hashtags are related to Large Robot?
- What are some of the major differences between today’s email templates / frameworks for sending out HTML emails that work out of the box with most email programs (e.g. Microsoft Outlook and Google Mail) and today’s email campaign providers like MailChimp and Constant Contact?
- Which major social networks had millions of users long before Facebook, Google+ and MySpace, and are there US versions?
- You need to schedule several dozen announcements on various social media sites to coincide with an upcoming product launch. Which tools or services would you use for this?
- Are general announcements that are scheduled at peak times more effective at reaching the desired target audience, and which tools or services would you use to find out?
- Which major social networks have zero support for posting via third-party apps and requires logging in and posting from their official websites or mobile apps?
- Is there another question that you think belongs in this list? Let us know at jobs@largerobot.com
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