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A word of caution regarding Rentify: I had some email correspondence with their CTO, Buff, last year when they had previously advertised on a "Who is hiring?" thread here, as I was then looking for something new in London.

They asked me to complete a coding exercise, which I spent a Saturday afternoon doing ( https://github.com/jasonl/property_search )and submitted it to them, and then I did not hear back - not so much as a single email reply! - despite repeated follow-ups.

If you're a Rails coder in London, you can definitely do better than a company that treats prospective employees as disdainfully as this.



Jason, I'm so sorry for treating you disdainfully. June 22nd, the day you sent over your test, I moved from San Francisco to London full time. I assure you that you were the exception and not the trend as I don't always move across the world and sometimes emails slip through. Ask anyone who has applied at Rentify since. I take extra time out to ensure that candidates understand what Rentify is and what we can offer to employees in terms of career growth. I even wrote a few lengthy articles about it here: http://bufordtaylor.com/post/62455729428/how-we-interview-en...

To be fair, I thought that since you didn't return the coding challenge after 18 days that you simply weren't interested in the job.

And if by 'repeated follow-ups' you mean one email, then I am guilty of that as well and you have my apologies.

Furthermore, I'm assuming instead of 'last year' you meant June.

Finally, my name is Buf.


That doesn't sound like us. Apologies if it was overlooked—not a fun experience to be ignored.




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