Want a boring job? My company Valuebase is hiring.
You ever read those online job postings that are like:
Come work for Zoopflxr, an exciting cutting-edge tech startup in the Bay Area! We're looking for cracked 10x engineers under the age of 26 that are passionate about disrupting the world of high frequency decentralized crypto augmented reality dog walking AI metaverse finance. The ideal candidate will have 10 years experience in <technology invented 5 years ago>. Zoopflxr will provide unlimited Zyn, Monster energy drink, and off-label prescription stimulants.
If that sounds like your dream job, you definitely shouldn't apply to Valuebase.
What is Valuebase? Valuebase is the company I work for. We do boring work that has the side effect of Improving Society Somewhat™. This is an underrated field of work and if you are smart and get things done, then you should apply.
What does Valuebase do? We work with civil servants in local governments assisting them with real estate mass appraisal, as well as GIS service (putting information on maps and then looking at the maps).
What are we looking for? Here, let me give a whack at our own job posting:
Come work for Valuebase, an extremely boring tech startup in the middle of nowhere (all positions remote). We're looking for people who are smart, get things done and are interested in Improving Society Somewhat™ as a natural side effect of helping local governments value real estate at scale. The ideal candidate dreams of working with a bunch of middle aged middle Americans helping civil servants all day.
Right now, we are hiring exclusively for entry-level positions – i.e., interns. (If and when we are looking for more senior positions I will post that on this blog too)
These are paid positions geared towards people at the start of their careers. That means we do not expect you to have years of experience and a star-studded resume. It does mean, however, that we expect you to be smart and to get things done, and to be able to prove it. We expect you to be good at learning quickly and solving a certain amount of problems yourself, but we will also provide training.
There's two kinds of entry-level roles we need:
- Technical
- Non technical
Technical means you will be reading, writing, and editing a lot of python code. You will also be doing a lot of other programming, GIS, data cleaning, and data science tasks. Knowing python or GIS stuff already is a big plus. However, if you don't, you should still apply – we care way more about someone who's smart and get things done than someone who isn't but merely checks every specific item on the list.
Non technical means you will be doing everything else. This involves a lot of clerical and office work and general paper pushing. You will need strong communication, organization, and general problem-solving skills and should be comfortable using LLM's in order to perform various daily tasks. The key skillset here is being detail-oriented and on top of things and able to learn quickly.
If that sounds good to you, then apply here below and prepare to bore your friends and family to absolute death whenever they ask about your career plans:
