Apr 7, 2015
BitTitan Response
11yFrom the CTO... I'd like to address some of the negative feedback. First diversity. Our engineering team is extremely diverse. At this time, our engineering team includes American, Belarusian, British, Canadian, Chinese, French, German, Pakistani, Russian, Singaporean and Spanish nationals. Our culture is naturally diverse because of our two office locations (Seattle and Singapore). Second speed. We've consistently doubled in size every year within our short history. It's impossible to sustain this kind of speed without engineering keeping pace. At the same time, the way we develop new features is probably more organized than the chaos you'd find in a "typical" startup. Within the last year, our speed has allowed us to transform from a leader in mailbox migrations to a leader in migration of all types of electronic content, as well as new automation solutions. Third talent. Our retention is several orders of magnitude higher than average for the industry. Our team is definitely not made of "cheap developers" but includes a wide spectrum of experience levels (from new college graduates, to senior developers with 20 years of industry experience). Many of our employees graduated at the top of their class, come from top-ranked universities, or had significant levels of responsibilities before joining BitTitan (see employee profiles on LinkedIn). Regarding our compensation package, we use industry surveys to ensure that our compensation matches market expectations. Our package also includes excellent benefits (including unlimited PTO, free health care, free dental, free vision). At the same time, we do believe that stock and performance-based incentives should be important factors in any employee's compensation. Taking everything into account, our compensation packages are most definitely competitive. Finally, profitability is important to us because it keeps us honest. If you want to work for a "cool", unprofitable startup, then we're definitely not a good choice.