Huey Ly

Software Developer

Why I like working at Mailtrust.

It isn't the fact that Pat, our CEO and Bill, our CTO used to work without a paycheck, living off their credit cards so we can pay our server bills.

It isn't the fact that Bill used to work after hour support while coding pages and giving up his weekends to design our servers. Nor is it the fact that Pat used to do front line support while taking sales call even when he's out on a Saturday night.

It isn't the fact that there used to be four of us working in the basement of a townhouse with no lighting and no parking and the power went out every time it rains. And now we're gobbling up office spaces hiring new recruits like a white-collar college graduate eating machine.

It isn't the fact that our support team used to juggle several tasks in addition to support working Thanksgiving and Christmas just to uphold our customer support image.

Nor does it have anything to do with Pat teaching me how to talk to girls at bars (spam them!), people from the company playing ball together, holding poker tournaments, playing risk, solving Rubik's cubes, dancing with each others girlfriends and wives at weddings, draining kegs at tailgates on Saturday mornings.

My satisfaction with this company has nothing to do with the fact that there is no politics, backstabbing, or badmouthing. Everyone is decent and loveable; we're like nerdy coffee drinking pine tree hugging hippies.

It isn't the fact that the punk rock drummer with an attitude that we hired as a part-timer is now a lead developer pushing the envelope everyday. Nor the fact that he's helping me polish my programming skills while showing me tricks I would have never learned had we not given the punk rock drummer with an attitude a chance.

It isn't the fact that working at Mailtrust has given me skills that I can proudly stamp on my resume, even though I don't have a degree to show for them.

No, wait. Actually, it is.