One passionate engineer can change an industry: we're really interested in engineers that want to find meaningful work.
Technically speaking, this is a recruiting company. PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER has built software teams (frontend, backend, data science/ML) at for-profit startups, nonprofits, philanthropies, and consultancies.
Now that that's out of the way: this is a boutique operation. We're talking personal referrals, not spam. Low volume, high touch. This is a project dedicated to human happiness and solving worthwhile, societal-scale problems.
PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER is free for candidates and non profit/academic institutions, and takes a referral fee from for profit organizations. (Yes, we move technical candidates from industry to high impact computational academic labs as a public service!)
PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER has experience as craft oriented software engineering, open source software, technical leadership, university level CS education, b2b SaaS, founding tech startups, and public speaking.
PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER specializes in helping candidates who are at a major inflection point in their career with a variety of opportunities in front of them.
Each candidate has an opportunity to discuss their full backstory, present circumstances and potential trajectories without expectation.
There's no guarantee you need anything PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER has to offer other than coffee or beer, and there's never any charge, or any pressure. Honestly, coffee and beer and conversation are great, and this is low volume on purpose. You might decide to start a company after hanging out, and that's cool. You might decide to join a company that's not hiring through PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER, and that's cool too. You might decide to join a company that is hiring through PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER, or have PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER reach out to a company on your behalf, and we'll be excited we got to help. We trust you to make the best decision for you, and for us; we assume if you want to talk, it's likely becauase you think we can help in some way.
The only way to get in touch with PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER is through a personal referral. We are generally excited to work with candidates who are already in the tech industry or have an advanced degree in a technical field and are transitioning into industry. We love kind, smart people.
To get this out of the way, we work with a referral fee model. Generally, 25%-35% of first year salary.
PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER will talk to you about your company and stay in touch with you over time. We'll work to understand your company's mission, fundraising position, culture,
PURPOSE DOT COMPUTER looks for small and mid sized organizations across for profit and non profit sectors that are doing something interesting and impactful, and aim to create environments where technical humans can do some of the best work of their lives.
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