Scott Bishop's answers

I already have enough habits, so I don't usually drink stuff with caffeine in it. I get the occasional caffeine kick from some chocolate.

I drive my kids out of the city to their preschool on Mercer Island. I park the car there and bus back into the city. Only adds about 15 minutes to the commute, but makes it so much more enjoyable. I forgot about that thing called "reading" where you can look at words that aren't on a computer screen!...

If by "advancement" you mean getting to put "Senior", "Director of", or "VP" in front of your title, then opportunites in our org are pretty slim.

If by "advancement" you mean getting to take classes, learn a lot on the job, and generally become a better devloper, then the sky's the limit. You'll get out of it what you put into it....

Also, I wear a comfy pair of plaid golf pants that everyone always sees fit to comment on... "Nice PJs!" "Oh, going golfing after work?"

Everyone at Jobster wears exclusively Jobster branded apparel. The coffeerobots wear our custom made "Ruby Hearts Rails" t-shirts. I think I have enough Jobster shirts to last me two work-weeks.

There are tons and tons of great food choices a short walk from our office, and some subset of the whole dev team eats together every day. We either get carry-out at Mae Phim (http://www.maephim.com) aka "$6 Thai", pho at Pho Bac, or burritos at Tenoch. Sometimes if we want a gut buster, we'll get pastrami sandwiches at Tat's (http://www.tatsdeli.com), or if we're in a rush there's always sandwiches at Subway or Quiznos....

I got a new desk location, which unfortunately faces a huge LCD display showing system health. It bothered me being able to see it out of the corner of my eye, so I put up a big curtain in front of my desk.

1. Katamari Damaci Soundtrack
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. Neil Young
4. Stereo Totale

We have a huge mp3 jukebox system with two sets of speakers positioned around the office, so the 40 of us have to get along, musically speaking. For any given album played, 10% of us love it, 80% of us can stand it, and 10% get driven crazy from hearing it....

My second day on the job, I was under my desk putting more RAM in my computer. One of my teammate's dogs came under the desk and took a huge crap right next to my computer!

Like the majority of the team here, I used Jobster to get a job at Jobster! If that isn't dogfood, I don't know what is.

When Laurel Fan, a former co-worker at Amazon, started working at Jobster, she sent me a Jobster invite.