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The other day I got contacted by a manager at the Big River, the online book-and-everything seller, who said my C++/STL/Boost background made me an ideal candidate to work in their office in Cambridge, UK.
Which is flattering and all, but I recall hearing they're a horrible place to work. A cursory search brings up a fair few articles to that effect, but also ones arguing they're not worse than other behemoths like Microsoft, Facebook or Google (mind you, the friends I have at Google are all very happy with them, so they might be an exception).
So I'm curious to hear if any of you have any opinions?
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If you've got nothing better at the moment I'd say go and find out for yourself.
Looks good on your resume, and if you decide it's a horrible place to work you can quit and call it "culture mismatch" or something.
Never regret the things you didn't do.
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No, I've got a job I'm quite happy with, salary-, perk-, and commute-wise. I've worked on the outskirts of Cambridge (Fulbourn business park) before, and that was usually quite okay. This looks like it's closer to the town centre, though.
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Never heard of them and couldn't find any reference to them when googling *shrug* I've worked in Cambridge before, nightmare town for traffic 
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That might be because that's an alias, to avoid putting by name next to theirs.
There can't be that many big online book sellers named after big rivers, can there?
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 now I feel quite the fool 
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I googled all the UK rivers I know, and none of them seem to run a book selling business. 
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Avon?
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Mississippi
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Does that run through London?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Try London, Kentucky[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I would have bet there was as least one.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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River? Or Jungle?
Anyway, I know someone who works for them in the US and says they are wonderful (that is if we are talking about the same company.) They have tried to recruit me a few times but it wasn't worth it for me.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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i think it's a pretty unpleasant experience for the drones (the human ones at any rate!) who actually move stuff about. I suspect it's probably a bit better for the ones that sit down all day!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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...and for the first time in seems-like-forever it's not raining! Woo! :FistPump:
Instead it's snowing. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And by the weekend we will have a nice white landscape and blue skies, so that I can charge the batteries and take a video from above. That reminds me to finish editing the last video and upload it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Its Wales, look forward to water falling from the sky in most of its forms later today.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Wool :FistPump:
Dirty boy!
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Sick minds degenerate alike!
veni bibi saltavi
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I read "Wool" instead of "Woo!", it really changed the meaning of the next phrase...
veni bibi saltavi
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I am not responsible for your perverted mind!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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ewe or eeeui, mind bleach may be required!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It finally snowed here on Monday. We had a green Christmas, and some people were out mowing their yards in shorts and t-shirts, as it was about 70°F that day and it had been raining on and off for the previous several days, so the grass was very overgrown.
What a wacky winter. If last year is anything to go by, this year will be a killer.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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megaadam wrote: snow on the Sahara
Been there, done that, 1979, 2005 and 2012 and probably others.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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