Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
| require "capybara" | |
| html = DATA.read | |
| app = proc { |env| [200, { "Content-Type" => "text/html" }, [html] ] } | |
| sess = Capybara::Session.new(:selenium, app) | |
| sess.visit("/") | |
| __END__ | |
| SyntaxError: (RegexpError) incompatible character encoding: /[\s\u0085\u00a0\u1680\u180e\u2000-\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000]+/ | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/helpers.rb:17:in `normalize_whitespace' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/selenium/node.rb:4:in `text' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/node/element.rb:48:in `text' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/node/base.rb:77:in `synchronize' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/node/element.rb:48:in `text' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/node/document.rb:21:in `text' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/node/matchers.rb:204:in `has_text?' | |
| /Users/kme/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.0@cr_orderflow/gems/capybara-2.0.1/lib/capybara/node/base.rb:77:in `synchronize |
