Friendless Summer

It’s hot in LA!

Which makes me think of summer!

Which makes me think of interns!

Which makes me think of hot summer interns!

Which makes me think of how sad I am to not be in Advertising!

Now, I know there are lots of other cool-sounding summer marketing internships available around this Internet world of ours, but hey, they’re not going to be very cool when it’s 96 degrees with 98% humidity in Manhattan and they’re on a street corner handing out flyers!

Meanwhile, you could be nice and cool, deep underground in one of our (assuming there’s no power outages..) climate-controlled data centres! (That was for the Brits.)

Being Los Angelenos, we don’t really know when this “summer” you speak of IS, or even really how to spell it, and because of that we’ve already “jumped the shark” and are looking to hire FIVE (5) summer interns… RIGHT NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH!

I would explain how great it is to work at DreamHost, and all the details and what-ever-for-not here, except I already wrote it once on the jobs page there, and re-hashing old content is a job best left to the professionals!

I will at least mention here that #1 this is a PAID internship, at $18.50 / hour, and #2 we’re flexible with when you want to start and how long you want to do it for, and #3 sure, this could be a good way to perhaps eventually even get a real job!

Now, juuust to wrap things up, my friend sent me an email two days ago about his experience interviewing that was way funnier than everything I’ve ever written, so hopefully he’s okay with me posting a snippet here. I can only hope that any interviewing I do for this internship will score half as many douchebag points…

So then I went to this interview at this place where really the job description was 100% me, like every thing they needed, I have done, I had all the right skills, etc. The guy there was a bit wacky. First thing when we sat down he asked me who I WAS. Like to describe myself as a whole, what type of person I am, etc. Then he started telling me how he asked some receptionist applicant that, and she said “well I’m beautiful” and then he went on this story about how she WAS gorgeous but she went on to explain that she didn’t mean her outside appearance even though it was beautiful, but she meant her inner self, she’s a beautiful person, etc. We finally got on to the interview and during it he tells me to pretend I’m a shoe salesman and I just sold him a pair of shoes but he phones me and says he doesn’t know how to tie his shoes, can I explain it to him over the phone. I was like “haha oh umm ok, sure. Haha, I feel like this is going to be one of those trick questions!” and he assures me like no, no, it’s no trick, it’s cause communication is important in this job. So I go through it, put your left lace in your left hand, pull it over to the right side, yadda yadda. Then at the end he looks at me with this smug look and goes “That was good. But you forgot one thing. You forgot to tell me to put my foot in the shoe”. Extra douchebag points here because not only WAS this a trick question, but he said tell me how to TIE them. I just chuckled and was like “oh wow yeah, I didn’t, hah yeah”, but after I was thinking how awesome it would have been to just stare at him for like 2 seconds when he said that, say nothing, and then get up and walk out and drive away.

Agreed.

We’re so high right now you don’t even know

Contrary to popular belief, we were not evicted from our Los Angeles office in October. Our lease was up and we had to skeedaddle.

However.

Due to several factors out of our control and a slight miscalculation on the part of someone I’m too nice to name…

…our new office wasn’t ready for our LA employees until a week ago.

The timing was perfect though…we had our Christmas party there last Friday and it was totally worth the wait!

We’ve moved into the AON building in downtown Los Angeles. Check it out!

Whoops! How’d that get in there? That’s actually our building as it looked in 1988.

This is the AON Center as it stands today-

It’s just a few blocks away from our old office, but it’s a few hundred feet higher. The AON Center is the second-tallest building in downtown Los Angeles. The view, as you’d expect, is obscene.

The inside is even better.

Join me, won’t you, as I take you on a whirlwind low-res cameraphone video tour!

But enough about the office! How was the Christmas party?

It was awesome. Those of us who work in the Brea office were shuttled in on a limo!

The ride into LA was quick, painless, and the air was filled with excitement! The ride back, on the other hand, smelled like alcohol, swamp butt, and broken social boundaries.

There was much lounging!

and gift-giving!

and Rock-Banding!

Our soon-to-be conference room was turned into a food-dispensing arena of gluttony by our capable caterers, The Patina Group.

If your site was down on Friday, sorry. We were too busy playing pool, eating, and sitting around doing nothing to fix it.*

*Kidding.

Great success!

By now you’re probably wondering how you can end up at the next DreamHost party, or at least get a peek at our new office in person. The answer is simple! Send us your resume.

We’re hiring people all the time and no matter how often we post our open positions, we never seem to get enough applications. Ever!

Tech support employees can choose to work in either our Downtown LA office (pictured above!) or our Brea office (also nice!) about an hour east of LA. If you’re an admin-type you’ll need to work downtown since that’s where our servers are.

See you in 2008, Internet people!

DreamHost Goes North (San Francisco)

DreamHost is starting up a small satellite office in lovely San Francisco and we’re hiring ONE perl programmer with good UNIX/Linux skills. If you are in or near San Francisco and think you might fit in with our organization, check the full job description on our jobs listing page.

Get a Job!

We’re hiring!

We’re looking for a programmer / system administrator, and we’re looking now!

If you’re the stuff, read more and apply online!

Farewell Charis

Today most of the DH crew went out to the East office and had a farewell lunch for Charis. She’s off to be a full time mom. Here is a quick video from the lunch table.

DreamHost is hiring! AGAIN!

We’re still looking for that bookkeeper, but now we’ve also got an opening for a tech support team member!

If you’re located in or around the Brea (California) area and have Unix/Linux command-line experience, and (preferably) some customer-support experience, we’d like to hear from you!

DreamHost is looking to hire a full-time customer support rep, and if you’re interested, we may have a spot for you on our team. Technical support here is 95% email and 5% phone calls.

We could go on and on about how we’re looking to hire “dynamic individuals to work in a fast-paced environment,” and that ideal candidates would possess “a combination of solid technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to interact with a cutting-edge team of professionals,” and blah blah blah. We could say all that, but companies say that crap all the time and they don’t really care about who you are, just what you know.

We are SO not like that! If you’re cool and enjoy jokes about robots and astronauts, you’ll probably get the job. If you come to the interview wearing a tie acting all high and mighty like it’d be some kind of honor for us to hire you, you probably won’t get the job. You laugh now, but it’s happened before!

This is a Monday through Friday position, however please realize that you will be working from 6AM to 2PM. Did we just lose you? Sorry.

Salary starts at $30-35k, based on experience.

Benefits include:
.Full health/vision/dental
.401(k) plan
.Generous time-off (up to 5 weeks after 3 years!)
.Laid-back atmosphere
.Free snacks and soft drinks
.Free web hosting!
.And more!

Qualified applicants please send your resumes to us at jobs@dreamhost.com.

Plaintext is preferred, .rtf will work too. If you send your resume as a .doc file we will know that you suck at following directions!

DreamHost is hiring!

It doesn’t happen often, but we’re ready to hire yet another employee!

If you’re located in or around the Brea (California) area and have some accounting experience, we’d like to hear from you!

We are looking to hire a full-time bookkeeper who will handle the day-to-day financial goings-on of our 25 employee-and-growing company! Mainly you’ll be paying the bills and keeping our financial records in order. You’ll also be responsible for administering our health insurance and 401(k) plans, payroll, ordering office supplies, getting the mail, that sort of thing. You’ll report directly to our CEO.

Ideally you’ll have some accounting experience (5+ years preferred,) preferably with a degree in a related field. Experience with QuickBooks will make your resume stand out like a glistening Excalibur in the mists of Cornwall.

You should be analytical, detail-oriented and very comfortable with spreadsheets.

We don’t throw every resume we get into a massive keyword-searchable database - we actually read them. Please don’t waste our time if you don’t want what we’re offering! If you think you might be a good fit, you’d be a fool not to contact us!

This is a five-day-a week (M-F) salaried position.

Benefits include:
.Full health/vision/dental
.401(k) plan
.Generous vacation time (up to 5 weeks after 3 years!)
.Laid-back atmosphere
.Free snacks and soft drinks
.Free web hosting!
.And more!

Plaintext resumes are preferred, .rtf will work too. Send ‘em all to jobs@dreamhost.com!