── ticket · manager ──
Config loader crashes
on startup

$ residency submit
✅ merged · streak 🔥 14

you/meridian
+312 commits this year

Meridian · Offer of Employment

You start Monday.

Junior ML Engineer at Meridian — a fictional startup with a real codebase. No experience required. That's the point of the job.

15 min a day real code review public GitHub portfolio

Accepting joins the private-beta waitlist. One email when your start date arrives — nothing else.

↓ your first day

The job

Your typical Tuesday

9:04 AM

A ticket arrives

Your manager: "Campaign signup numbers are inflated — dedupe the list before the report goes out."

9:07 AM

You write real code

In a real editor, on the company codebase. No fill-in-the-blank, no multiple choice.

9:16 AM

Merged ✅

Tests pass, your PR merges, streak +1. When you fail, a mentor explains why — never just "wrong."

Not a dramatization

This is the actual product

meridian — zsh

$ residency start fix-config-types

── Ticket · filed by your manager ────────────────────

Config loader crashes on startup

Deploy failed this morning. The service won't boot —

everything in RAW_CONFIG arrives as strings…

Done when:

✓ port and max_retries are real numbers (int), not text

✓ debug is a real boolean — careful, bool("false") is True

$ residency submit

✅ All checks green — PR merged into Meridian main. Nice work.

8 min on the clock (budget 10) · attempt 2

Copied from a real session, typos of panic removed.

The payoff

You leave with a GitHub,
not a certificate

Every merged ticket is a real commit on your real GitHub profile — green squares, readable code, a repo you can pin. Employers don't read certificates. They read code.

📌 you/meridian — recommendation systems · Python
└ Health monitor crashes on flaky probes (retry-health-check) · 2 days ago

One more thing

The position
remains open.

We're hiring a limited cohort for the private beta.
Start dates are assigned in the order offers are accepted.

Free during beta

AI/ML track first, more to follow

Beginners welcome — we ramp you

— Meridian Hiring