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This is a blog I wrote about my experiences working for Inktank on 10\/4\/2012! You can see the actual copy here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.inktank.com\/culture\/from-inkling-to-inktank\/<\/a><\/p>\n

When I started at Inktank in January 2012, I was employee number 12 and only the fourth manager in\u00a0the company. Since then, we have been on a sprint up a steep mountain to find the best talent for every part of our business. In just 9 months we have grown the company into a thriving organization with 45\u00a0individuals, with another half-dozen pending!<\/p>\n

While it is often difficult to find the bleeding-edge talent\u00a0for any new spin off, it has been an incredible pleasure to find people for Inktank. The reason being\u00a0is that when engineers hear of Ceph, a completely open-source, distributed, unified storage system\u00a0that provides object, block and file system storage that also runs on commodity hardware, they can\u00a0immediately see the layers of interesting projects on which they will work and the amazing opportunity\u00a0they will have.When business development managers hear that customers are often times demanding\u00a0support and services rather than having to be cold called and hard sold, they jump at the chance to work\u00a0here. We have been also expanding our marketing, community and professional services teams to be\u00a0able to offer comprehensive support, exposure and outreach for Ceph and Inktank.<\/p>\n

While our teams have been growing rapidly there has always been a steady stream of referrals. New\u00a0employees, having only worked weeks or even days have referred their most trusted friends and\u00a0colleagues to work for Inktank. The quality of candidates that we interview has been top-notch and\u00a0we remain committed to continue the trend. We are very focused on hiring the best often time from\u00a0some of the best educational institutions including nearby Harvey Mudd College and to that effect have\u00a0several PhDs working on our teams.<\/p>\n

The thing that people may not realize before they interview, is that while we are a spin-off which that\u00a0can mean uncertainty and doubt for some when looking for a stable position; we are directly supported\u00a0by a very sound and profitable web hosting company called DreamHost! In that light, we enjoy many\u00a0of the perks and benefits of a large organization while retaining the start-up feel.<\/p>\n

DreamHost enables\u00a0us to give our employees full paid medical, dental, and vision benefits with nothing out of their pocket\u00a0for premiums for the entire family, a very good matching 401k plan, significant stock options, free\u00a0web hosting, twice weekly catered lunches (if you\u2019re in our downtown Los Angeles headquarters), and\u00a0many, many other advantages. Many are surprised at how democratized, laid back, and dedicated our\u00a0employees are overall due to the prevailing company culture. We wear shorts and t-shirts to the office,\u00a0play ping-pong in the kitchen, eat fully-stocked snacks 24\/7 and work practically any hours as long as we\u00a0get our work done!<\/p>\n

We are still, and in the foreseeable future, continuing to hire talent throughout our organization. We are\u00a0always looking for strong technical consultants to work in the professional services organization, quality\u00a0assurance engineers to work with engineering, and developers who love to work with file systems and\u00a0storage. I can now say that while we are still running up that ever-present mountain at a dead sprint,\u00a0the foundation of the amazing executive management we have hired and the awesome technical staff\u00a0already employed, we are definitely on our way to become what we have been saying all along \u2013 The\u00a0Future of Storage!<\/p>\n

Regardless if you see a position listed on our careers page or not, reach out to me to be considered\u00a0if you are interested and experienced in our domain. The worst thing that can happen is that I\u2019ll be\u00a0completely upset that you have taken the time and effort to send a well put together resume\u2026ha! Of\u00a0course not, there is nothing to lose to email your resume to me (ilya.bolotin@inktank.com), so why not\u00a0do it?!<\/p>\n

@Pipogo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a blog I wrote about my experiences working for Inktank on 10\/4\/2012! You can see the actual copy here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.inktank.com\/culture\/from-inkling-to-inktank\/ When I started at Inktank in January 2012, I was employee number 12 and only the fourth manager in\u00a0the company. Since then, we have been on a sprint up a steep mountain to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ilyabolotin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}