Trevor Brosnan – Plastiq

What to wear to a Plastiq interview

Trevor Brosnan — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:05:00 +0000

You’ve likely read our many blog posts around our interview process including what we look for when hiring, our interview process, how we think about¬†career paths for Engineers¬†and the experiences of some of our team members who joined us recently (such as Cody Larocque and John Gaffney). What we haven’t talked about yet, and most…

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Why work for a startup instead of a large company?

Trevor Brosnan — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:43:00 +0000

This is a question I field quite frequently since we ramped up our Engineering hiring efforts in October 2018. Many of the roles we are hiring for are senior roles, and we often have candidates come to us who are either emerging from a larger company environment or are at a stage in their career…

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Plastiq at 2019 Future Digital Finance Conference

Trevor Brosnan — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:43:00 +0000

If there is one thing I love doing, it’s talking about Plastiq. Last year we received an invitation to talk about Plastiq at the¬†2019 Future Digital Finance Conference – with the challenge that I would need to speak in front of an audience of over 200 senior executives from the Financial Services Industry about Plastiq.…

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Ask the Head of Technology – What do you look for when hiring?

Trevor Brosnan — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:48:00 +0000

At Plastiq today, we are hiring for a lot of Engineering roles. At various prior companies I’ve been involved in the hiring and onboarding process for 100s of Engineers. As I’ve grown in my career and gained more experience, I’ve actually simplified my hiring philosophy down to 3 key questions that I ask myself (or…

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Plastiq named in Best Places to Work by Built In Boston

Trevor Brosnan — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:12:00 +0000

I am absolutely delighted to share that Plastiq has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” by Built In Boston for 2019!¬†These awards recognize companies that go out of their way to provide employees with the support they need to thrive. At Plastiq we highly value our Engineers and gave them lots of…

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Plastiq Hiring Event in Boston

Trevor Brosnan — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:49:00 +0000

Plastiq is delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting at Built in Boston’s upcoming¬†Top Companies Hiring event at Ned Devine’s in Fanueil Hall on Thursday January 17th from 5.30pm. This is a great opportunity for you to meet members of our Boston Engineering team, learn about the work we do and what opportunities we…

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Plastiq Engineering expands in Boston

Trevor Brosnan — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:37:00 +0000

Plastiq’s story is a tale of two cities – namely Boston and San Francisco. Boston – as Plastiq was initially founded there in 2012. San Francisco – as Plastiq is headquartered there since late 2014. Over the past 4 years, we have been hiring and growing our Engineering staff in San Francisco. However we continued…

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Engineering Key Values

Trevor Brosnan — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:09:00 +0000

Earlier this year, I first came across the site KeyValues.com. I was really impressed with the site’s unique approach to filtering potential companies for a next role. When you read a company careers page or their job descriptions it can can be very difficult (read: impossible) to find out what their team values really are…

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Retaining Engineering Talent

Trevor Brosnan — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:36:00 +0000

I was speaking recently with a friend who is a Head of People at another company. In the course of our conversation the topic switched to retention. I shared Plastiq Engineering’s retention record – we have had only 1 Engineer depart the company in nearly 2.5 years. Our average tenure of an Engineer at Plastiq…

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Plastiq Engineering Open House 10/30/2018

Trevor Brosnan — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:20:00 +0000

We recently ran an Open House event at our office in San Francisco. We had a great turn out from the local developer community and had a bunch of really enjoyable conversations. To recap why we do this – we love talking Engineering at Plastiq. When we are at the office we are typically heads-down…

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