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Dexter is the platform individuals, brands & businesses use to create and manage powerful automated conversations. Our existing users and clients include folks from all walks of life, from real estate agents trying to automate lead generation to humorists writing joke bots to huge international brands launching marketing campaigns with us.

All current open roles: Full Stack Engineer, Junior Front End Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer

Our stack: NodeJS backend; React/Redux/Sass frontend; Redis/MySQL/Elastic storage; PHP/Laravel legacy systems; AWS hosting.

We're based out of the betaworks space in meatpacking and came out of betaworks' Hacker-in-Residence program last year (past companies that went through this program include Dots, Giphy, Poncho, and Blend). We closed a $2.3mm seed financing round last summer and are looking to add to our small but growing team.

I'm the VP of Engineering & Strategy at Dexter, feel free to get in touch directly: david (at) rundexter (dot) com. You can also apply at http://jobs.rundexter.com

Dexter is a startup here in NYC that's focused on helping marketers, business professionals, and creatives build chatbots without doing any coding. Our existing users and clients include folks from all walks of life, from real estate agents trying to automate lead generation to humorists writing joke bots to huge international brands launching marketing campaigns with us.

All current open roles: Full Stack Engineer, Junior Front End Engineer, Junior Full Stack Engineer

Our stack: NodeJS backend; React/Redux/Sass frontend; Redis/MySQL/Elastic storage; PHP/Laravel legacy systems; AWS hosting.

We're based out of the betaworks space in meatpacking and came out of betaworks' Hacker-in-Residence program last year (past companies that went through this program include Dots, Giphy, Poncho, and Blend). We closed a $2.3mm seed financing round last summer and are looking to add to our small but growing team.

I'm the VP of Engineering & Strategy at Dexter, feel free to get in touch directly: david (at) rundexter (dot) com. You can also apply at http://jobs.rundexter.com

I can only offer some anecdotal advice based on my own experiences, but I hope your situation improves soon (I agree with most of what everyone else is saying: you are being underpaid.)

- Slow down your speech. Sometimes my thoughts get ahead of my mouth, and my words don't come out eloquently. Sometimes when I do phone interviews (or presentations) I put a little card in front of me that has written in big letters "SLOW DOWN." Speech pace may not be a factor for you, but this trick can probably be applied to whatever you're personally going through—put something on a card that keeps you subtly conscious of your speech. Of course YMMV if this makes you nervous and enhances your stammer.

- Practice. I've basically found that all presentations and speaking events turn out better after practicing aloud. With interviews, you can ask a friend to help you prepare, and this may help you with "softball" non-coding questions (e.g., why you looking for a new position, describe a technical challenge, etc.)

- Speak more. This goes hand-in-hand with the point above but is really important. I speak more so I gain more confidence in my own speech, which helps me get over my stutter. Heller (the article above) makes a great point in saying that stutterers actually seem to be attracted to professions in which speaking is a critical part of the role. I somewhat feel the same way, and perhaps if you realize this, you can too. A stutter isn't something to cower away from, it's a challenge to step up to and break through.