Episodes
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Episode 17: BDR Manager
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Todd talks about his move into management at RibbitRebate. We’ll learn if he can make an easy transition to management or if it will cost him his humanity.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Episode 16: First Employee
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Paul talks about his move from a large accounting firm to a crypto startup. We’ll learn if his gamble pays off or if father knows best.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Introducing Tales from the SaaS Graveyard
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Welcome to Tales from the SaaS graveyard. We talk to employees at tech companies that are in the middle of the bell curve. Not going out of a business, but definitely not hitting the big time.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Episode 15: Business Development Representative
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Mr. G talks to us about being a Business Development Representative (BDR) at YrDoc which creates software for law firms. If there is one thing we learned from this episode is that sales is hard.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Episode 14: Infrastructure Engineer
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Al talks to us about being an infrastructure engineer at GTSI. He walks us through the highs of working on the roof to the lows of his final days.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Episode 13: Junior Developer
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
David talks about going from a Fortune 500 company to a Boston-based startup. We discuss the challenges of being the most junior person on the team, management's expectations for "passion" projects, and the joys of ping pong.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Episode 12: First Employee
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Chris talks about his transition from working at Microsoft to being the first employee at RecruitForce. We discuss Chris’s journey that year and how your expectations for a role can be drastically different than reality.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Episode 11: Director of Product
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Priya talks about switching jobs while on maternity leave. She shares stories about joining a unicorn, inheriting a team and a welcome lunch that took an unexpected turn.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Episode 10: Software Developer
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Carl talks about a growing engineering department, corporate doublespeak and the optimal amount of free boba tea for employees.
Episode Correction: In the episode you will hear a reference to a rumor that Salesforce employees were having sex in the stairwell of an office building. This is incorrect. The rumor was not about Salesforce employees, it was about Zenefits employees. You can learn more about this scandalous rumor in this Business Insider article: Zenefits had to tell staffers to stop having sex at work.
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Episode 9: Generalist
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Nate talks about exploring different roles at "Goose.io", a people search company. Could "Goose.io" buck the industry’s worst practices or did they get cooked?
Credits:
Hosts: Jake & Stephen
Intro Music: Blue Dot Sessions