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What makes you, you?
Genes
Instructions from parents
Stores on long strings of chemicals
DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)
DOUBLE HELIX
Order matters A LOT!!!
Genome (entire DNA sequence)
3.2 billions of based pairs
9.5 years
10 wpm, 8 hours/day, 50 years
6000 times to moon!
8 hours to copy!
99.9% identical
Summer at Groupon
Sam Serpoosh@masihjesus
masihjesus.wordpress.comgithub.com/Sam-Serpoosh
Little bit on Business I’m TERRIBLE at business (Please don’t
quote me on any of these!)
Helping LOCAL Businesses
Saved businesses and improved them a lot
Shedd Aquarium ran a Groupon and 14000 people showed up!
A little bit on Business (Cont.) Finding appropriate merchants and
deals
Customizing deals specifically for each merchant!
Combination of Humans and Algorithms (rare combination)
A little bit on Business (Cont.)
Go Mobile!
A little bit on Business (Cont.)
More than 200 million subscribers
A little bit on Business (Cont.)
A little bit on Business (Cont.) Every day sending email to subscribers
(BORING! BooOooOo!!!)
BUT, editorial to the rescue (and other tricks)
A little bit on Business (Cont.) The Voice
Humans develop smiles as a way to deflect predators in the wild and former bosses in the grocery store! (Deal for a dentist!)
A little bit on Business (Cont.) Started as less than 20 people 48 countries, 98 offices, more than
10000 people in less than 4 years!
A little bit on Business (Cont.) Wall: “Are you gonna be one of them?!”
A little bit on Business (Cont.)
I do NOT know! (again please don’t quote me on that! )
Technical/Engineering side Collaboration becomes harder when a
company grows
Made up of small teams (5-10 people)
Daily Stand up, Weekly meetings, one to one with director of engineering!
Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Someone has done it already & can help
you!
Agile/XP/Scrum/etc. What works the best (Inspect & Adapt all you need)
Code Quality matters A LOT!
Design discussion & consider alternatives
Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Be open to change (Don’t be defensive
about your code!!!)
Automated Testing on Different Levels Continuous Refactoring (Boy scout rule)
Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.)
Big open source community!
Pull Requests are more than welcome
Help to make things better EVERY where!
Don’t re-invent the wheel either use it or improve it!
Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Fast feedback
Trial and error! There is NO ONE answer
Do a quick and simple thing, LEARN from it
Could save millions of dollars!!!
Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Self-Growth Book Clubs Clojure Lunch
Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.)
Pairing on Side-Projects for deliberate practicing
Hackathon
GeekOn (Bit Coin payments)
Going to Conferences couple times a year
Automated Merchandising
Page Real-Estate
Widget Development Platform
Auction, bidding system
Experimentation Framework
Learn from and make sense out of data
Preaching/Advice
In place to preach am not!
Collection of interesting advice from professionals and passionate people in software development and programming!
What you’re interested in and mostly passionate about FIND!
It just your work is NOT!
It all your time, nights and weekends TAKES!
If you’re a pure tech person and that’s what you’re enjoying then THAT’S IT!
Based on your perspective CHOOSE!
Value a business solely on their share price NEVER!
Continuously read/practice/improve
Get out of your comfort zone (So many possibilities out there)
a better knowledge and understanding of what’s going on under the hood HAVE!
Learn things for career’s sake do NOT!
“An expert is a man who made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow filed!” – Niels Bohr
More info/links 18 things to know about your genes
Groupon Public Facts
Interview with Andrew Mason in 60 minutes!
Summer Internship at Groupon
One on One by Doc Norton
Contact/info Links: https://github.com/Sam-Serpoosh https://twitter.com/masihjesus https://masihjesus.wordpress.com https://linkedin.com/in/samserpoosh