Eventbrite
12 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2019 by Pat Poels · said 39 times in 8 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jun 25, 2019 positive
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Eventbrite's Mendoza engineering office saw zero turnover for its first four years
“In this office where we've experienced this great growth of going from five people to a 110 on the engineering and design side, we didn't lose our first person until. A full four years after we started building the team.”
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Jun 25, 2019 bullish
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Eventbrite retained 21 of 40 engineers over seven years in San Francisco
“I'm proud to say that when I started at Eventbrite with 40 engineers in the company at that .21 of those engineers are still there. I've been there seven years and two months and we still have 21 out of 40, which is terrific for San Francisco, but we still had…”
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Eventbrite found a top-ten Rails contributor in a Mendoza startup
“The engineer that I met was, he was one of the top 10 contributors to the rails project lifetime. And he actually hadn't done any contributing for more than a year, but I look up the list of people who contributed to rails and he was like number nine lifetime.”
Jun 25, 2019 negative
Rejecting international engineers for lacking English fluency was a colossal mistake
“Over the course of the first two years doing hiring in Mendoza, we let, we did not hire probably three, maybe even four great engineers purely because they didn't speak English very well. And this was a colossal mistake.”
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Eventbrite achieved Google-level hiring advantages by empowering its regional hubs
“The reward for giving them that trust and autonomy has been, we are the place to work for engineers in both Mendoza and Nashville full stop. We are the best place to work and it's known by everybody that advantage that Google used to have over us. In San Franc…”
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Annual engineering turnover in Eventbrite's Mendoza and Nashville hubs is under 5%
“If I look at Mendoza and Nashville together over the course of the time we've had these two offices, the total turnover we've had in these two offices combined has been less than five percent a year across these two.”
Jun 25, 2019 negative