The careers page of a company honest enough to say when it isn't hiring — and smart enough to remember who would be worth it.
We read more than we type. Both have to be good. Variable names are characters, functions are sentences, modules are chapters.
Substance makes you fast on its own. The reverse doesn't work. We ship in weeks — because we think first, not because we sprint.
That's why there's no opening listed here right now. We know our workload, we know our pipeline. And we know the price of growing too fast.
Four anonymized projects from the last few weeks. No platitudes — real substance. Scroll horizontally.
The most beautiful code is the code that doesn't have to do anything anymore.
Not every call needs a human. Just the right ones.
We don't have less work. We have different work.
Fax machines aren't the problem. But they are a symptom.
No LinkedIn lookbook. One fact per person — but not the one on the CV.
No fruit baskets. No beanbags. But this:
MacBook Pro M-series, 16" or 14", your call. Studio Display for the office. Magic Keyboard. Trackpad. Anything that won't complain during a build. Our take: if you stare at a laptop six hours a day, the laptop shouldn't be the thing that bothers you.
Bensheim, Berlin, Bali — fine by us. As long as you're reachable when something's on fire.
We benchmark the industry. Then we add a little on top. Because we can.
Eight kinds. Wood oven. Nobody talks tickets while we eat. Not even Markus.
Mario Kart, Catan, Parcheesi. No obligation. No performing. But somebody always shows up.
Conferences, books, courses, a 200-page Postgres tome. We don't ask for receipts on your curiosity.
Corporate Benefits, bike leasing, rail pass. Plus: a company phone you'll also use to send your kids nonsense.
No "manager." No "stakeholder sync." Just people you can review code with, share bread with, and occasionally sigh with.
We argue well. We argue short. Whoever's right is right. Hierarchy here is a calendar entry, not a filter.
and yes, the coffee is good. we have a proper espresso machine. we take this seriously.
No tickets-per-hour metric. Just one Thursday in April.
Coffee. Nobody talks. That's the rule.
Pull Request with four comments. Three of them "Yeah, fine.", one "Why like that?".
Lunch break. Nobody talks about code. Except Markus, who can't help it.
Client call. We listen more than we talk. Notes go straight into the repo.
Last commit. Not because it's done — because it's good enough for today.
If any of this rings a bell — even halfway — keep reading.
Our office has six desks, one coffee machine, and exactly one chair too few. The chair is the problem. The desks are on purpose.
We're currently not offering FOS internships (vocational school placements) — not because we don't want to (we do), but because an internship here is worthless if the intern is on a video call while a code review is happening three meters away that she should be witnessing live.
An internship at Cogswell means: sitting next to someone, reading along, asking questions, getting your own branch. That doesn't work from a home office. And it doesn't work when the chair is out in the hallway.
No cover letter. No mandatory CV. Tell us the thing nobody else asks you about.
You'll hear from us when the wind is right.