One thing I've always wondered about with companies that provide free food is are you considered an outcast or thought of not being a team player if you bring your own food or don't eat with the team?<p>Sometimes I'm on a very specific diet, and I do like getting out of the office from time to time, so I'd hate to feel like an outcast for not eating with everyone everyday.
<i>At the end of the day, I got to pick up cool employee schwag to show off to friends that I'd just joined one of the coolest places to work for. That's my story so far. Oh and if you're interested, we're hiring! :)</i><p>This made me feel.., strange.
Okay here's my honest yet skeptical question:<p>Reddit is down to running with only one developer (and surviving fine).<p>How many people does it take to run/develop for Quora and why?<p>Isn't Quora "simply" a feature-rich forum system like Stackoverflow (with a different layout) ?<p>ps. why are we not allowed to see when a question was asked on Quora?
I worked for a company that used remote instances to do development, the latency was terrible and everything took much longer to get done. We eventually switched to local dev environments and saw a big boost in productivity.<p>the 13inch macbook pro also surprised me, what about when you want to work away from the desk with the 30inch monitor?
Makes me wonder if Quora was set up for continuous deployment from the beginning? The systems used for this type of thing (tracking pushes, tests, start/end times etc) always seem to be highly custom-built. I imagine it'd be a lot easier to build this as you build you site from the ground up, rather than retrofitting it in afterwards.
I'd like to hear more about this line from their job listings:<p><a href="http://www.quora.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/jobs</a><p>"You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life"<p>That could mean a wide range of things - from social engagement and occasional dinners at work (as described in the post) to<p><a href="http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html</a><p>or<p><a href="http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html" rel="nofollow">http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html</a>
<i>One thing you'll notice is that Quora doesn't really give its employees any desktops. Instead, all development is done in the cloud with Amazon EC2 instances, provisioned specifically with custom software scripts.</i><p>So are all team members using the same EC2 instance? Or they each get their own different cloud-machine?<p>(Do EC2 instances support persistence in the file system anyway?)