MattRob

Nested.com | Data Engineer | London | ONSITE https://nested.com/

Data is at the heart of everything Nested does - from our customer facing automatic valuation model to the tools our team uses internally.

We’re looking for someone to help us develop the foundations we already have into world-class data infrastructure capable of supporting production quality product features. We’re also looking for someone who can play a central role in our research and development programme to improve our data models on an ongoing basis.

We believe in fewer, better people and you will join our small, extremely talented London based team, backed by Europe's leading investors. We have experience of founding successful start-ups like GoCardless and Songkick and backgrounds from McKinsey and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

We would love to hear from you if you’re interested! Please send your CV and a link to anything else you think might be relevant to work@nested.com.

More info at https://nested.workable.com/jobs/395002

Nested.com | Software Engineer | London | ONSITE https://nested.com/

We are an ambitious new company started by founders of GoCardless and Songkick and backed by some of the world's leading investors and entrepreneurs. We believe in the value of fewer, better people and are looking for a skilled engineer to join our small, extremely talented and product-oriented London based team.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

- Develop the core consumer facing product, which currently uses Ruby, Python and JavaScript. This will require rapid, agile iteration based on customer feedback and metrics.

- Develop tools to support our internal operations team.

- Work closely with our designer to implement a high quality, modern front end experience.

We would love to hear from you if you’re interested! Please send your CV and a link to anything else you think might be relevant, such as your personal website or GitHub profile, to work@nested.com.

More info at https://nested.workable.com/jobs/403118

Nested.com | London | Onsite | Fulltime | UX & Analytics | https://nested.com/

Our product will be the source of our long-term advantage. We are looking for someone to help us understand what our customers want and build a truly great user experience that delivers it.

We believe in fewer, better people and you will join our small, extremely talented London based team, backed by Europe's leading investors. We have experience of founding successful start-ups like GoCardless and Songkick and backgrounds from McKinsey and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

- Dig into product usage metrics in order to improve conversion;

- Speak to customers in order to understand how they are using the product and uncover insights on how we better enable this;

- Work with all functions in the business to help engineering scope out and prioritise product features.

We would love to hear from you if you’re interested! Please send your CV to work@nested.com. (More info at https://nested.workable.com/jobs/376830)

Nested.com | London | Onsite | Fulltime. https://nested.com/

We are an ambitious new company started by founders of GoCardless and Songkick and backed by some of the world's leading investors and entrepreneurs. We believe in the value of fewer, better people and are looking for a skilled engineer to join our small, extremely talented and product-oriented London based team.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

- Develop the core consumer facing product, which currently uses Ruby, Python and JavaScript. This will require rapid, agile iteration based on customer feedback and metrics.

- Build technology to support sophisticated machine learning algorithms. You don’t necessarily need past experience in these areas, but there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in the theory if you’d like to learn.

- Work closely with our designer to implement a high quality, modern front end experience.

We would love to hear from you if you’re interested! Please send your CV and a link to anything else you think might be relevant, such as your personal website or GitHub profile, to work@nested.com. (More info at https://nested.com/software-engineer)

Nested.com | London | Onsite | Fulltime. https://nested.com/

We are an ambitious new company started by founders of GoCardless and Songkick and backed by some of the world's leading investors and entrepreneurs. We believe in the value of fewer, better people and are looking for a skilled engineer to join our small, extremely talented and product-oriented London based team.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

- Develop the core consumer facing product, which currently uses Ruby, Python and JavaScript. This will require rapid, agile iteration based on customer feedback and metrics.

- Build technology to support sophisticated machine learning algorithms. You don’t necessarily need past experience in these areas, but there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in the theory if you’d like to learn.

- Work closely with our designer to implement a high quality, modern front end experience.

We would love to hear from you if you’re interested! Please send your CV and a link to anything else you think might be relevant, such as your personal website or GitHub profile, to work@nested.com. (More info at https://nested.com/software-engineer)

To be clear, it's not an auto-reject, it's an early warning mechanism.

I see the relationship between MBAs and cluelessness as one of correlation not causation.

I totally agree. As I said in the original post:

"I am not trying to argue that there is no place for MBAs, or that no MBA has a clue about startups – both of those are demonstrably untrue. Also having an MBA itself is clearly not the problem."

I have no vendetta. It is simple pattern matching:

I receive lots of applications every day. When nine out of ten that share one common characteristic (MBA), share another (no understanding of how they could add value in an early stage startup), you begin to connect the dots.

It's not that I won't look at any MBA but that when I do I'm watching out for particular things. When nine out of ten apps that display a particular attribute share or lack another common attribute, that seems like a sensible response.

Like you say, the key is the ability and desire to execute.

I actually knew this. I should have mentioned it. As I said: any argument that "no MBA has a clue about startups...[is] demonstrably untrue".

Absolutely. I should have made this clearer, I've added a note in the first para of the post.

The intention was not to attack any trade but to highlight a worrying misconception that seems to be particularly prevalent amongst MBA grads and ex-consultants. A segment that I feel my background makes me particularly able to comment on.

Totally agree with this

Thanks Viktoras! Just drop us an email at help@gocardless.com if we can do anything to help

As a heads up I'm from GC but as quick responses:

1) It's little known but the protection under DD are arguably stronger than those under cc (http://www.bacs.co.uk/bacs/businesses/directdebit/collecting...); but your point still holds for as long as this remains little known ;)

2) Fair point, although this varies a lot by country (consider CC usage in Germany) and is not the case for B2B transactions

3) No it doesn't. There's a pan-European ACH network (SEPA DD), also if you look at PayPal they offer Bank transfer in US & Europe using ACH in a similar way