Inside Recruiterbox

Handling Offline Payments with Stripe

We use Stripe for managing customer payments and subscriptions at Recruiterbox. Stripe works really well for us because it handles the complexity of managing credit cards and the entire subscription lifecycle from trial periods, recurring charges, payment retries…

Feature Delivery vs Code Quality

In this era of competitive startups, MVP’s (Minimum Viable Products) and features are delivered in…

The way we work — Retrospectives

The nature of work we do is complex, the cause and effect are not obvious and not known before hand. When we look back we always understand the relationship between the cause and effect and learn from it. Retrospectives help us to look back, reflect on what has happened…

How (and why) we chose our Support Stack

I have had a lot of long (passionate) conversations talking about the way we do support…

Delinking releases and deployments

Releases for application development used to be a big event during my early career stages. There were multiple cycles of QA, UAT and business acceptance before deployment happens. The deployment also had lots of complexities as the dev environment and production…

Why I changed how I apologize to customers

Update to this from April 2018, here.

A day inside Recruiterbox

We make hiring simple, we make people’s lives easier by doing so with the whole hearted effort of a handful of ecstatic minions at work throughout the clock. But what goes on inside Rbox ? What makes our team the A-Team at what we do ? Let’s take a walk through my simple words to…

Don’t break the chain

I like reading fiction and non fiction books but with increasing commute time and every day errands, finding time to…

Notes from taming a hairy feature

Reflecting back on the 2 months spent working on an expansive feature gave me some new insights and also corroborated my beliefs in some existing practices.

TL;DR: Get all the help you can. Question Everything.