We hire slowly, then leave people alone to work
There are 5 of us. Every hire changes what the studio is, so we only open a role when a specific kind of work keeps arriving and the person doing it now is drowning. That means fewer postings and a much slower yes.
Houston, TX — or remote on US hours
Six true things, including two you might not like
Written for someone deciding whether to apply, not for a careers page award.
Five people, no layers
You talk to clients directly. Nobody relays your questions or softens your estimates. Some people find that exposing; the ones who stay find it faster.
Two projects at a time
You're not context-switching across nine accounts. You work on one thing properly, then the next thing.
Scope is written down
Every project has a signed document listing what's in. When someone asks for a tenth template in week six, that's a quote, not your weekend.
You'll write publicly
Everyone here publishes under their own name. Roughly one article a quarter, on your own beat, on paid time.
Quality bars are numbers
Page weight, LCP, contrast ratios. Arguments about whether something is good enough get settled by a measurement rather than by whoever is most senior.
Small studio, honest limits
No equity, no gym allowance, no ping-pong table. Salaries are mid-market for Houston and stated in the posting rather than negotiated from a low anchor.
What comes with the job
Short list, all of it real. We'd rather name eight things we actually do than list twenty perks that turn out to be a discount code.
- Salary stated in the posting, reviewed annually
- Fully remote or the Houston studio, your call
- Four-day week in July and August
- Twenty days off plus US public holidays
- $300 a year for courses, conferences, or books
- Hardware you choose, replaced every three years
- Paid time to write and publish under your name
- No on-call rotation — we don't run production for clients we haven't built for
Five steps, about two weeks
The exercise is paid. The salary range comes up in the first call. Nobody gets ghosted.
You email us
A short note and something you made. A portfolio, a repo, three published articles. No cover letter theatre.
Thirty-minute call
Mostly you asking questions. We'll tell you the salary range in this call, not at the end of the process.
A paid exercise
Three to four hours of realistic work, paid at your day rate. You keep it either way, and we never ship unpaid trial work.
A conversation about it
You walk us through your decisions. We're listening for how you handle the trade-off you had to make, not whether you got it perfect.
An answer within a week
Yes or no, with a reason either way. Nobody gets ghosted — that's the one hiring rule we've never broken.
Think you'd fit but nothing matches?
Tell us what you do and show us something you made. We've hired twice from emails that arrived when nothing was open.
Rather write first?hello@quesiono.com— we reply within one business day.