A Meetup of Meetups
Philadelphia is lucky to have a number of active user groups and tech-oriented meetups. To help organizers and participants of the various groups get to know each other better, Monetate is sponsoring a meetup of…
Philadelphia is lucky to have a number of active user groups and tech-oriented meetups. To help organizers and participants of the various groups get to know each other better, Monetate is sponsoring a meetup of…
Earlier this year, Monetate chief Dave Brussin announced during a company meeting that if we were able to meet an engineering hiring target during a recruiting surge, he’d buy a 3D printer for office use.…
This week, Monetate’s engineering team held its first Hack Days event of the year. We were given two days to work on a project of our choosing. Many of the hacks were directly related to…
In our first engineering podcast, Karl Shouler, Ram Parthasarathy and Patrick O’Brien discuss PyCon 2013 and their impressions of startup culture on the East and West coasts. Other topics included Raspberry Pi hacking, the poor form of naming snowstorms, and the upcoming Monetate Hack Days.
Over the past 14 months, Monetate engineers have had four Hack Days events, ranging from a single day to our most recent four-day hackathon. During Hack Days, everyone in engineering gets to work, alone or…
We’re thrilled (but not surprised!) that Monetate has been named one of the Best Places to Work in PA for 2012. Companies that participated were assessed based on their benefits and policies, as well as…
Last week, Monetate’s engineering department held its fall Hack Days. Engineers were given the opportunity to work on a project of their choosing on Wednesday and Thursday. We then presented our projects to the rest…
Some of Monetate’s engineers prefer to work on just a laptop. Others like having the extra screen real estate that an additional monitor or two provide. Mike Hand, our delivery team lead, is the current…
At least once a year, Monetate’s engineering team holds Hack Days, two back-to-back days of furious coding, during which we get to work on a project of our choosing. At the end of Hack Days,…
Monetate backend developer Jason Stelzer hacked together a little application that allows you to receive Growl notifications of Drinkify.org recommendations, based on an iTunes playlist. (Written, he says, one Sunday morning over mimosas.)