In the present day is my first day at Patreon. After I advised family and friends that I used to be becoming a member of Patreon, I received certainly one of two responses. Both a pal would say one thing like: “Dude! That’s superb! Patreon is nice.” Or they might say “Why Patreon over other-San-Francisco-based-tech-company?” This publish is an try to reply the second group. I believe Patreon is likely one of the most attention-grabbing and thrilling locations to work proper now, and I hope that by the tip of this you’ll agree.

The Interview

To begin, I need to speak slightly about my interview course of at Patreon. In the event you resolve to hitch us (and I hope you do), your interview course of could also be completely different, as a result of we’re at all times making an attempt to enhance how we rent. My interview course of had three levels: preliminary recruiter name, cellphone display, and on-site interview. In the event you’re conversant in hiring in Silicon Valley, these levels gained’t shock you, so I’m not going to enter a ton of element about every stage. As an alternative, I’ll give attention to what caught out, and what closely influenced my choice to hitch.

What struck me first was that Patreon checks for abilities I’d truly be utilizing as part of the workforce, particularly abilities that they couldn’t glean from taking a look at my resume or Github. The technical parts of my interviews included zero whiteboard coding, and no algorithmic “gotcha” issues. As an alternative, they targeted on designing actual programs, and speaking by the technical challenges and professionals and cons of designs. These had been mainly prolonged conversations over a whiteboard, the sort that appear to occur weekly in many of the organizations I’ve been in.

This was the sample of my interview course of right here: partaking, frank conversations about what the challenges are at Patreon, what the long run might maintain, and the place Patreon, each in product and group, could possibly be enhancing. These conversations occurred with individuals inside and out of doors of engineering, and despatched a powerful sign that Patreon is in search of individuals who aren’t simply specialists of their fields, however are additionally capable of talk how their work contributes to Patreon as a complete.

That concept of contributing to Patreon as a complete was one other consider my choice. Patreon is rising quickly, however remains to be a reasonably small group for the quantity they get accomplished. As somebody who’s considering serving to form the way forward for a corporation, it appears like an extremely thrilling time to be becoming a member of.

The Product

Everybody I met in the course of the course of made me enthusiastic about Patreon the group, however Patreon the product is already basically altering the web. Check out the previous funding fashions for producing issues on the web. For years, the one methods to make a dwelling had been to promote merchandise, put all of your inventive works behind a paywall, or put adverts throughout your creativity. Patreon is offering instruments for creators that I believe will beginning visibly consuming into the web advert area within the subsequent 5 years. That mission is a mission on par with what Mozilla, Wikimedia, or the Web Archive try to perform: Patreon helps creators make a dwelling on the Web, and making the entire Web higher consequently.

The Challenges

All of this isn’t to say that Patreon doesn’t have challenges. As an organization, Patreon must scale as much as deal with the ever-increasing set of creators and patrons becoming a member of the platform. As an engineering group, the selections made right this moment will impression Patreon’s skill to scale over the subsequent 5 years and past. Moreover, Patreon has a number of opponents who’ve seen what Patreon sees, that the time is lastly proper to construct a funding mannequin for creators on the web. On prime of all these challenges, Patreon’s dedication to its creators and patrons means Patreon goes to maintain pushing ahead on performance that makes it simpler for creators to make a dwelling and simpler for patrons to assist the creators they care about.

These challenges are large, but additionally massively thrilling, as a result of they’re significant. Assembly and surpassing these challenges will imply serving to creators, a few of whom are shut pals or individuals I like drastically, achieve success in doing what they need to be doing.

My hope is that by this level you perceive a little bit of why I’m becoming a member of Patreon, and that I’ve piqued your curiosity in becoming a member of us. There’s a pair extra issues that had been significant for me that I’ll record right here, as a result of maybe they’re significant for you as properly.

• Patreon is a Python store within the backend. It’s not for nothing that Python is such a preferred language, and my private favourite. I transfer sooner in Python, and I discover it simpler to collaborate in Python than some other language I’ve tried.
• Patreon’s present workforce offers ample mentorship alternatives, and probabilities to develop in skilled abilities in addition to technical abilities.
• Patreon is severe of their dedication to scaling the workforce accurately, throughout the board. Which means discovering individuals who aren’t simply glorious, however who’ve views and backgrounds not already represented at Patreon.

In case you couldn’t inform, I’m fairly excited to be becoming a member of the workforce at Patreon. In the event you’ve learn this far and need to be part of us, try our jobs web page. I hope to see you within the workplace sometime quickly!