WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.080 My name is Jake Danes. I work in the lab. I'm a software developer. I started in May 2022. 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:13.760 My favorite part about working at LMG, I can pay my mortgage. No, in all seriousness, 00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:19.680 I'm a problem solver. I get to come in to work every day and work on crazy problems, 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:25.200 most of which are Linus's fault. But, you know, it's fun. I get to do what I love. 00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:32.080 I've worked for a variety of companies over my career since I started working at 14. 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:38.800 And all of them have quirks and issues. And I wouldn't say that anything at LMG is 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:44.160 out of the ordinary bad. There's always going to be different ways of doing things, 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:51.280 none of which are any more wrong than others. I am working with Linus more as of recent. 00:00:52.160 --> 00:01:01.680 And it is like sitting on a knife's edge between very matter of fact, this is how we'll do it, 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:15.440 and absolute chaos. And I've had a lot of different bosses in my life. Linus is interesting in that 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:20.000 he will come in and say, this is how we're going to do something. And even when we tell him it 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:28.320 can't be done, he says, no, we're still going to do it. And more times than not, we end up doing it, 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:36.320 and he was right. And it's annoying. Yeah, I mean, LMG has changed quite a bit since I started. I 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:40.160 stopped being the new guy after a week. I mean, we've hired so many people, I can't hold the 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:46.400 door open for anyone because I have no idea if they actually work here. We've bought, sold, 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:54.480 and bought another building since I started and moved in. The building that I started my time at 00:01:54.480 --> 00:02:02.240 LMG in is basically empty. I just took a walk through it on my way up here. And there's one 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:07.760 person sitting in the room that I started my time here. So yeah, things have changed a lot 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:15.040 very, very quickly. I think most people think that we are all white dudes in our 20s, like 90% 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:24.240 of the company. And actually, we're closer to like 50-50. And out of the, you know, all of us 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:30.880 white dudes, I don't think half of us are in our 20s anymore. You got to remember the channel's 00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:34.960 been around for a decade. I think we have a lot more diversity in staff than I think a lot of 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.160 people realize. If I could change anything about LMG, that's a good one. And my answer is the no 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:46.720 alcohol policy because I recently moved back from the UK and I miss being able to have beers at 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:53.040 lunch with my co-worker. I think in Canada, we're a little prudish when it comes to that. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.840 So yeah, that I also, I want to say Linus Drunk, I think it'd be hilarious. 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:03.120 Things are just as chaotic off camera as they appear to be on camera. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:13.120 People don't, like our hosts, our staff, they don't really put on a persona when they're behind 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:17.920 the camera. That is them. And that's something I think a lot of people don't realize, especially 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:26.000 when people comment. It almost, the lens of the internet provides that level of dehumanization. 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.160 They're people, they're doing their job, they're doing what they love. And yeah, you know, 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:37.120 Linus might ham up a little bit or try and up the energy to make the video more fun and 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:44.640 entertaining and keep people engaged. But that is him. The hosts are themselves. Why did I apply? 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:52.640 I didn't apply. No, I had some emails back and forth with Linus around some of the mobile testing 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:59.840 that they plan to do in Labs and coming from my background. I had some opinions, as I'm sure a 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:06.960 lot of people will have as we get rolling. And I sent an email out just suggesting some things and 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:13.920 saying, you know, I'm happy to help. And yeah, I ended up getting into an interview process after 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:24.240 that, like a month later. So I took the job because I've spent the last 10 years in my previous role 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:31.120 working with marketing teams and engineering teams at manufacturers and OEMs, helping them 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:40.160 provide data to sell their product to consumers. I'm glad to be on the other side of things now 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:45.600 where I can help consumers be more informed about the products that they're buying. I was a software 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:52.880 engineer in the UK working at a tech startup focusing on mobile performance tooling. And 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:57.440 in the last kind of five years, we also expanded a PC and network performance. 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:05.120 The lab's not so much. A lot of it's been developing tools, methodologies, 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:13.440 working with outside individuals, aka the writing team, in order to provide them the data that 00:05:13.440 --> 00:05:18.560 they're looking for or that they need. I'm a little disappointed, actually, because I thought 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:25.680 that there'd be a little more weirdness. And now Channel Superfund is on hiatus and I'm probably 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:32.320 not going to get the opportunity for Dennis to prank me anytime soon. So I haven't really had anything 00:05:32.320 --> 00:05:33.360 weird happen.