Should my decision factor in my future colleagues?

One thing which guided me from an early stage of my career was gravitating towards people I wanted to be like. I remember I was looking for a job as a software developer in my mid twenties, and I was taking every interview I could get, even if the company didn't look particularly attractive because I saw it as a practice. So if anyone wanted to interview me, I said, "Yes. Okay. When can I show up at your office?"

One day a recruiter called me and suggested I go for an interview at a small internet marketing agency in Camden, which didn't look sexy at all. The only reason I said yes is because I said yes to everything as a policy. I remember going there thinking, ‘I'm only going there to get some interview practice and maybe learn something new.’ And it was half a day of interviewing with five different people.

When I left, I remember leaving with a feeling of, I don't care about what they do. I don't care what internet marketing is. I don't care how it works or what my exact job is going to be, but I want to be like those people, there is something special about those people who interviewed me and they want to be like them and they want to learn from them. Joining that company turned out to be a brilliant decision. I learned so much over the next few years that I stayed with them. I did learn a lot from those people that I met there.

Description: Founder coach and Makers Academy founder Evgeny discusses an early job offer he accepted, despite initial misgivings, because of his admiration for the people who interviewed him for it