I’m JD, co-founder of Raygun (https://raygun.com). We’re a paid alternative in crash report logging and user performance metrics. We’ve been operating for years, not reliant on VCs, and are HQ’d in New Zealand.
I’ve met with many customers over recent months who have told me quite plainly that they have been told none of their data is to go into any AI/LLM system. This is often coming from legal and many understand this may not apply forever, but for now it’s a hard no. While many of these were large organizations, the message was almost universal.
To that end, at Raygun we have always run the business as though all data we receive is the customers’ data. Treat it how I’d want our data treated by one of our suppliers. As we look to release our own AI capabilities this year, we’ve been making it clear that these will be opt-in features. We take the role of being trusted with customer data very seriously, and the trust that is placed in us. We’re already compliant with standards like GDPR and tracking what’s coming around AI rules is something I think we’re all paying close attention to also.
Happy to chat with anyone looking, can match budgets: [email protected]
Ultimate test of a good place though if you ask when young.
I asked for my first grad role. I asked a lot of probing questions. 3 years in I was running teams and setting up operations for the business in another country for them. I even told them I’d be leaving to start my own business after this job (and did). This resonated because I was speaking to their founder at the time and knew we’d be cut from the same clothe.
Holding yourself back at a young age can just stunt your career development. Asking such questions will appeal to the right employer.
Unsurprisingly this one went from 35 to 150 staff, profitably in the 3 years I worked there. I was 22 when setting up other parts of their business. I’d started at 19.
I wouldn’t advise folks to avoid such questions just because they’re young or “need the job”. Stand out! You’re even more likely to get the job.
As noted by others here: if they react poorly to this in the interview, you already won by dodging a bullet.
Yes that’s why I thought it odd to say the AWS devs have it hardest in the whole company. It’s not a competition though it always feels a bit silly to pretend back breaking physical labor is easier than sitting in an air conditioned office in a chair.
Keep in mind, we have a political party with absolute power right now. So if you move here, you'll hear a lot of blaming the last govt, while not wanting to acknowledge that the current govt is doing this also and could easily change it.
Identity politics is alive and well in NZ as much as it is anywhere. Blame the politicians who were in power 5 years back.
So you can't really call it an aspiration when all major political parties here support the same model - only the lens of folks political affiliations is being covered here.
I saw this mentioned on twitter yesterday, Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer, an open source toolset for seeing what config changed when performing software installation.
We've had gigabit internet in most metro areas of New Zealand for many years now (I pay $110 NZD = ~$80 USD a month to have no data cap either). In mid-March 2019 the infrastructure provider (Chorus) began testing 10Gbps connections with small businesses.
I moved to Seattle in 2016 and found there was only 1 provider who could do 1Gpbs, and even then only to some select locations in the city. Somehow moving into the Amazon/Microsoft center of the tech universe was like going back in time.
Now if we could just resolve the speed of light issue between the bottom of the south pacific and US-EAST1.