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by derekchiang 2290 days ago
I had the chance to work with Armon as a contractor at HashiCorp when I was in college. Armon was absolutely one of the most down-to-earth leaders I've ever seen. Even though he was technically brilliant and I was only an undergrad, he never made me feel like I was stupid or inexperienced, but rather patiently guided me towards the best solutions, so I was able to gain a lot of confidence and grow a lot along the way.

If you are an aspiring distributed systems engineer (as I was), I highly recommend applying to HashiCorp. They are solving some of the most fun challenges in distributed systems and they have a great engineering culture, not to mention that they are remote-friendly.

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One time quite a while ago, I randomly hung out with the Kiip team one day when there were like 6 of them. Mitchell struck me as a super nice guy, and at some point he randomly dropped the fact at some point that he wrote Vagrant.

I'm glad that they have done so well.

I went to college with Armon and highly enjoyed working with him. I've never been associated with Hashicorp and can't speak to his leadership there, but as a human being he's fantastic. And it seems like Hashicorp is doing well.
I've never met any of them but the culture just seems fantastic from the outside. Glad to see it isn't a facade.
As someone who has met Armon, I second this.