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title: State Street to CHAOSSEARCH Co-Op – Why I Made the Switch
description: State Street to CHAOSSEARCH Co-Op - Why I Made the Switch
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# [State Street to CHAOSSEARCH Co-Op – Why I Made the Switch](https://www.chaossearch.io/blog/state-street-to-chaossearch-co-op-why-i-made-the-switch)

 Written by [Marisa Dell'Anno](https://www.chaossearch.io/blog/author/marisa-dellanno) | Jun 19, 2019

“I will do anything except get your coffee for you… and even then, if you asked, I would still get you coffee.” This was my plea to the senior officers at **CHAOS**SEARCH.

After taking most of the day before my **CHAOS**SEARCH interview to scour the internet to learn what an ELK Stack or Amazon S3 was, I was more than scared that I would blow my only chance to escape the clutches of the large corporate behemoth of State Street Bank to an early-stage start-up.

Although the interview went better than expected and they ended up offering me the intern position (no coffee delivery needed), accepting the job was not an easy task. I had to quit my current co-op, feel the wrath of a huge corporate company on my back, and face Northeastern University to explain what I’d done.

Despite the turmoil and “chaos” that followed, working at **CHAOS**SEARCH has been one of the best decisions I have ever made.

While some may take comfort in the structure, security, and steady pace a well-established, giant corporation such as State Street provides, I felt extremely  limited and under utilized . The path was rigid, the technology was slow and antiquated, and the work they assigned me was mindless.

Some people get sucked into the “start-up bro dream.” They picture ping pong games, cereal bars, and cold brew pouring from taps, all while someone else is picking up the slack of their work.

But not here. **CHAOS**SEARCH is bareboned.

It took time for us to get a Keurig, and even longer to get K-cups. Our “treat” is Friday lunch, where we all sit together to eat and reflect on our progress.

At **CHAOS**SEARCH, the perks aren’t physical or fattening. The perks are being able to work alongside a group made up of unique and frighteningly intelligent individuals, who are working together because they believe in the problem that **CHAOS**SEARCH solves.

Walking to the Boston Public Market for lunch; listening to [Tom O’Connell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-o-connell-525180/) continue to answer automated spam phone calls; getting excited to come in on a Monday morning to dissect and argue about the latest GOT episode; and cracking up over how people believed [Pete’s #meatleadership](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6544966406444773376/) post was a true story (it wasn’t, but the[ comments were still great](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6539215733237313536/)).

These are the perks.

Working here for almost four months, I’ve seen the company grow — in both size and in the confidence of its product. I belong here; I’ve put in work that I have seen come to fruition, something I didn’t know could feel so fulfilling.

Here, we get excited about others and their successes — the work your colleagues contribute is helping to make the company that you work for a better place. Lift them up! Say congratulations! It’s not a competition.

If I had to do this past year over, I would have told Northeastern that no twenty-year-old student wants to work a 9 to 5 at a massive corporation — where the hard work that you’ve put into your classes will translate into organizing file cabinets for an executive that doesn’t know your name (true story).

But If I had to redo these past four months over, I would do it all the same.

Sorry, State Street.  
Sorry, Northeastern.

I guess this is more of a thank you note to my company than a blog post. I’ve grown so much here. I know what a log is. I can tell you how you can turn your Amazon S3 into a fully searchable Elastic Cluster. I can put out an email to over ten thousand people (and only induce mild anxiety in [Melodye Mueller](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melodyemueller/), my CMO).

I am much more confident in myself than I have been in a while.

You don’t have to offer free coffee and unlimited snacks to tempt people to work at your company; what you should offer is an explanation of why you love what you do and why you love who you work with.

Thanks, **CHAOS**SEARCH!

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