Adriano Caloiaro

Do I have your attention? I’ll come clean — I don’t actually have very strong feelings about open office floor plans, but with so many people waxing hyperbolic about them, I felt that it was time someone weighed in with a contrarian opinion and matching hyperbole. DHH’s article above titled “The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea” reduces the open-office decision to the idea that open offices look good to managers signing leases. [Read More]

This is the first in what I hope becomes a series of posts on how we’re slaying the monolith at Greenhouse. Over the course of the next year, Greenhouse Engineering is aiming to break down our monolithic Rails application into a more scalable and robust collection of services. This won’t happen quickly, but it will happen deliberately and with the clear goal of safely scaling Greenhouse Recruiting into the future. [Read More]

I’ve been wanting to scratch a writing itch for quite a while. Over the last twelve months I’ve had the good fortune of having visited nine countries. And every one of those trips involving some amazing stories with great people. In April, I broke my collarbone while mountain biking in Peru (I’ll do a writeup on that at another time), which provided no small amount of downtime to think about what to do with my time when I’m not out being active. [Read More]