We definitely do the initial interview via phone/Skype. There absolutely is room to grow and move into other areas of the company with experience. I highly recommend becoming familiar with the platform through the "front lines" of support. It gives engineers a different perspective on our service.
Ok, that sounds great! (Same to the comment above, replying to this one for continuity) - let me mull it over this week.
And I couldn't agree more, being placed in the firing lines of customers is often more telling than building the software yourself - "normal" people tend to notice things which we as developers are prone to miss or gloss over unintentionally.
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The awkward moment when I notice I blanked the CEO
Large changes in lifestyle, such as a complete relocation, new job, etc, should not be something undertaken lightly - if I interviewed and got offered the job I would be under a lot of pressure, which I can mitigate now by thinking more carefully before undertaking anything, I wouldn't want to waste both my time and the time of the people at Cloudflare by making an important decision without carefully weighing the pros and cons.
