Meet the BeamTeam: Our Career Journeys—Justin Greet

This newsletter will be part of a monthly series titled “Meet the BeamTeam: Our Career Journeys.” Each newsletter will focus on an interview with one of our awesome team members about their professional path and how they came to BeamJobs.

Keep reading to learn more about this month’s star, Justin Greet!

Note: responses have been edited for clarity, flow, and length, but the original intent of the responses have been preserved.

Justin Greet

Co-founder and CTO

· In summary, what do you do every day at BeamJobs?

I manage and build our product, which is currently our resume builder, and we’re working on a bunch of other projects in the works, like our jobs product and a cover letter builder.

· Now to dive into the backstory: when you were a kid, what did you want to do when you grew up?

I wanted to be a professional soccer player but was disabused of that pretty quickly. I also wanted to be Mario from Super Mario—that was my dream job.

· When you were in high school, what did you want your future job to be?

I didn’t really have a dream job in high school. I was just kinda living. (Same.)

· In college, what was your major?

I was originally an electrical engineer, but then I switched to computer science.

· How did you end up at BeamJobs?

My first job out of school, I was an engineer at Google, and I didn’t really care for it. I hated having a boss and having to do Facetime, that sort of thing. I wanted to start my own company, so I hit a savings goal and then started a company.

(Fun side note: we’ve now officially stopped dipping into our founders’ savings! Pretty exciting!)

· What was the most unexpected part of your career journey?

For me, it was the fact that people and the overall culture tell you that Google is the dream job, and I just hated it. I felt so surprised that it wasn’t a good fit.

· What’s something you love about BeamJobs?

The whole reason I wanted to do this is the freedom and independence to manage my own time. If I want to take a day off, I take the day off. If want to start work at 7 pm, I start work at 7 pm.

· What’s the most unexpected thing about working at BeamJobs?

For a while, I was the only technical person at our company, so I was constantly on our call. There’s the fact of “not knowing what you don’t know.” I was constantly terrified (and still am) that there’s something wrong with the website that I’m unaware of.

Here’s my worst story from my early days:

My partner and I had hiking plans over the weekend. I was running customer support (did it for two years) and on Thursday night before the hike, I had 20-40 emails. It turns out that literally nobody could log into the site. Our entire site was down. I had to work for pretty much 24 hours consecutively to redo the whole way we do logging in.

· Any final thoughts before I wrap this up?

I’m very grateful that it’s not Stephen and me anymore. It’s so nice having smart, fun people around.

To finish off this email on a fun note, here are some cool facts about Justin:

He has a minimalist tattoo of tent and hiking path on his arm.

He learned how to dance during quarantine because he wanted to know to do modern dance at a series of weddings that were coming up.

He played the drums in the rock band “4 in Reserve” in high school. Rock on, Justin!