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How to get a job at DuckDuckGo

"'If you want to work with us, we find that the most motivated people come directly from the community,' says Zac Pappis, DuckDuckGo's Director of Marketing and Community."

DuckDuckGo team members in their Paoli office, from L to R: Caine Tighe, Zac Pappis, Gabe Weinberg and Russell Holt.

Wanna work at DuckDuckGo?

Get involved with its developer community, FastCoLabs reported in a recent profile of the Paoli-based search engine.

“If you want to work with us, we find that the most motivated people come directly from the community,” says Zac Pappis, DuckDuckGo’s Director of Marketing and Community. “Anybody can get their feet wet.” Indeed, Pappis himself was heavily involved in the DuckDuckGo community and did part-time work for Weinberg in the evenings before being offered a full-time position in 2012.

Read more on FastCoLabs about what it’s like to work at DuckDuckGo and how the search engine came to be.

Companies: DuckDuckGo

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