Plus, if you can remember how to do "Hello world!" in BASIC without googling it (print? echo? quotes? semicolon?), then, you have a great memory. Good for you. I would hardly consider any knowledge of BASIC to be credential in the year 2011. Good luck, bros...
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Kristina Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > These are the sorts of job posts that just make me look forward to > switching to a different career... "kegerator" & "beer pong"? > I should want to hang out with you outside of work and watch you drink until > you puke while listening to loud rock & roll music? (From the tone of the > below it seems like you may be doing this during the workday!) > > Clearly nobody in this awesome company has yet seen their 25th birthday... > > > > On 4/11/2011 3:47 PM, Nik Bonaddio wrote: > > I'm not a recruiter. Recruiters are lame and have no idea what they're > doing. I know exactly what I'm looking for, so I'm posting here. > > --- > > Let's start with the boring stuff up front: We're a small, agile, > well-trafficked startup in the sports analytics space. We've been covered by > TechCrunch, we've been written up in Sports Illustrated, and now we're going > to revolutionize the way users consume and engage with sports content. Our > founders are ballers, our advisors are even more ballerous, and just wait > until you see our product.. > > If you're someone who loves sports and also loves building products, then > we're your company. Even if you're not a huge sports fan, feel free to reach > out to us - we're more interested in someone who knows how to get stuff > done. If you're wondering what kind of people we're like socially, we have a > kegerator in our office and our most played artist on iTunes is Animal > Collective. You should be able to get our jokes and we should be able to > want to hang out with you outside of work. > > Our stack is built on PHP and MySQL, but we're considering moving to Couch > or Mongo. What do you suggest? We'd love to know. We have a world-class > designer and front-end developer on board, we need to find someone who is > comfortable on the PHP backend, taking things from the browser-level all the > way down to the DB. We're not looking for someone who is merely good; we're > looking for great - '85 Bears great. Lemieux in the 91-92 playoffs great. > Lemonade and BBQ on a Summer afternoon great. > > Skillsets: > > Excellent PHP skills (should be comfortable building out an application > scalable to 100,000 daily uniques) > Knowledgeable of system-wide architecture (setting up version control, > release engineering structs, etc.) > Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup setting > Familiarity with beer pong and general precepts of social skill > > > > Nice to have: > > Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery (not totally necessary as we already have a > world-class designer and front-end) > Sports fan (big, big plus - let us know what your favorite team is) > > > > What we're not: > > Some huge, boring company where you'll have meetings about meetings > A company that works in a space that you could care less about > A startup that values founder's valuations over the future gains of the > employees > A company founded by a bunch of suits who can't code Hello World in BASIC > > Even though we're a startup, this is a salary position. We'll shell out for > the right employee. There is also a TON of equity involved; you're the third > employee and huge part of our future success - we'll take care of you. You > should ideally be in NYC, but that won't stop us from moving forward with > the right person. > > To apply, just send us a resume (please send [email protected]) and we'll > go from there. > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Jobs Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Jobs Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Jobs Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
