diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7b3c2377..799171ab 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Name | Website | Region [Functionize](/company-profiles/functionize.md) | https://www.functionize.com/ | Worldwide [Gaggle](/company-profiles/gaggle.md) | https://www.gaggle.net/ | US [Geckoboard](/company-profiles/geckoboard.md) | https://www.geckoboard.com | UK -[General Assembly](/company-profiles/general-assembly.md) ⚠️️ | https://generalassemb.ly/ | +[General Assembly](/company-profiles/general-assembly.md) | https://generalassemb.ly/ | Worldwide [Ghost Foundation](/company-profiles/the-ghost-foundation.md) | https://ghost.org/ | Worldwide [Ghost Inspector](/company-profiles/ghost-inspector.md) | http://ghostinspector.com | North America, Latin America, Caribbean [Giant](/company-profiles/giant.md) | https://giantmade.com | UK diff --git a/company-profiles/general-assembly.md b/company-profiles/general-assembly.md index 3926842f..6dbf50dd 100644 --- a/company-profiles/general-assembly.md +++ b/company-profiles/general-assembly.md @@ -2,10 +2,90 @@ ## Company blurb -⚠ We don't have much information about this company yet! +Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today's most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 40,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our corporate training programs. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education. -If you know something we don't, help us fill it in! Here's how: +## Company size + +501-1000 employees + +## Remote status + +Your safety is important. In response to COVID-19, all of our programming will be conducted online until further notice. + +## Region + +30+ campuses in 6 countries. There are positions available remote and Worldwide, specifically in the following regions: + +* USA +* London +* Saudi Arabia +* Singapore +* Toronto + +## Company technologies + +Languages: +Ruby 2.X+ +Javascript +CoffeeScript + +Frameworks: +Rails 3.x for some bigger legacy apps, Rails 4.x for all newer stuff with solid upgrade paths +Grape for APIs ( intridea/grape ) +Backbone +React ( A JavaScript library for building user interfaces ) + +App Serving: +Nginx (routes a few of our apps on our domain root) +Webpack ( webpack module bundler) +Unicorn & Puma depending on the app's needs and performance metrics + +Databases & Caching: +PostgreSQL +Redis +Memcache + +Testing: +RSpec +Cucumber (trading it out for RSpec features) +Minitest +Experimenting with Nightwatch.js ( Nightwatch.js ) + +Background Processing: +Sidekiq + +CDN: +Fastly ( Fastly ) + +Image Processing: +Cloudinary ( Cloudinary ) + +Monitoring: +NewRelic +Librato ( Highly Scalable Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerts | Librato ) +Papertrail + +Exception Tracking: +Honeybadger ( Honeybadger ) + +CI: +Semaphore Ci ( Continuous Integration & Deployment ) + +Platform: +Heroku all the things +Rackspace for redundant backups, DB backups, deprecated repo storage, etc + +## Office locations + +* USA (Headquarters is in New York, USA with remote offices across the USA) +* London +* Saudi Arabia +* Singapore +* Toronto + +## How to apply + +Search by office location or search for remote. + +https://generalassemb.ly/careers -- Read our [Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) -- Have a look at our [example company profile](https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs/blob/master/company-profiles/example.md) -- Follow the structure of the example profile and [send us a pull request with your changes to this file!](https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs/edit/master/company-profiles/general-assembly.md)