I have to admit it’s exciting until you’re done playing with their coding challenges. I did 3, okay, I didn’t kill myself over them, but it was to check it out. It’s 5:18 in the morning, and I couldn’t fall asleep, so I decided to check what’s up in the remote job land.

Anyways, my opinion?

The website seems sleek very minimal, sadly takes a long time to load. The first time you load the page, you’re hit with pointless “coolio” animations that didn’t add much… other than the suspense, of course.

Thinking it was slow just for me, I found other people complaining about the same thing, so I decided to check out if it’s quiet for us two, or more people.

Lets see how long it takes for Pingdom to get the website from their San Francisco server.

Okay, 702 ms plus the animation there we go. At least I know it’s not just me, it’s slow.

Why is it taking so long to start downloading?

117 ms on DNS… interesting, they are using cloudflare.

Regardless, the tests were fun, but when I got the “test” and saw it was like 40 hours, I decided… maybe I can do it quicker…

Well, no. It’s very vague, doesn’t contain too many guidelines it’s up to you to do everything, so I have to admit getting just an email and google docs specifying what needed to be done was an instant-turnoff. The website needs a lot of love and polishing if they plan on competing with market leaders, you know, toptal, and others.

Kudos to you guys, at least the tests were fun for tonight. Hopefully, in the future, we’ll see the website blossom, and maybe their competitors will fear them?

That’s all for now, I’m not posting the challenges so at least I leave some mystery behind.

That being said, coworkers found entertaining the backbones on how the internet works, so I decided to dedicate a particular time the company provides for this topic and choose to make a Friday talk. Unfortunately, 1 hour was quite a short time to give them as much info as possible and have them take something useful home.

Topics:

• DNS
• TCP/Packets
• Wireshark
• Networking
• Internet Evolution
• Spoofing

Pretty much all that was covered here, and keep in mind the basic idea behind the presentation is to offer a realistic view of how the internet works and how it was built.

To end up with a practical way to understand how this knowledge may help you get the company’s advantage. For that reason, I altered the company website… with a version of my own LOL where I chopped off heads and swapped people’s heads around, and of course, the childhood prank on changing positive messages into negative messages.

Remember: Training employees, and getting involved, care about what you learn will make the company more valuable and the employees more valuable.

Cheers!