As a self employed person, I'm certainly wasting time on these posts,
but it's my luxury to do so, isn't it, so please, everyone, forgive me
for the audacity of having an opinion. We now return to our regular
programming.
[Also, I'm in no way discouraging any startup companies from posting
here as I'm sure they give less than a whit about what some old lady
programmer says, and will continue to post these jobs with regularity.
Guys, your free beer is safe. No worries.]
Cheers!
K
On 4/11/2011 5:35 PM, Sicular, Alexander wrote:
Hey K,
You are really throwing around a ton of stereotypes. Maybe you can't
code cause... you're a woman? Hmm. Not so nice, eh?
For what it's worth, I'm being recruited by startups, among others,
and this is exactly the kind of post I want to see. Many people can
code. But not everybody will be a cultural fit. There are many jobs
out there for ciders and higher ups right now but not everyone is
looking for a "job". I know I'm not. I'm looking for an opportunity.
And if you don't know the difference you are still looking for a "job".
I, for one, hope to see more of these posts.
Ps. I'm 32 and don't drink but I think these guys are a ton of fun and
would put a great work environment together.
Cheers,
Alexander
@siculars on twitter
http://siculars.posterous.com
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On Apr 11, 2011, at 17:16, "Kristina Anderson"<[email protected]
> wrote:
Any article that references a TV show doesn't have much credibility in
my book, I'm sorry to say. And the ideas here are absurd.
As long as this company truly doesn't mind limiting their talent
pool to
inexperienced kids who enjoy working in a loud frat house alongside
drunken morons who get nothing done although they are there 14 hours a
day, and probably have deplorable personal hygiene to boot, and they
truly feel that a person such as this can build quality software, they
should be fine with a job post like this.
However I am very, very glad that I'm not an investor in this company,
because this business plan is a recipe for disaster. Speaking as
someone who's old enough to be their mother, 25 year old kids THINK
they
have all the answers and us old folks know nothing. They want to do
everything differently than we did.
But usually things soon go horribly awry and someone has to clean up
the
mess...usually, one of us old fogies.
Matt, send in your resume now -- free BEER! Wooooooooo. It's not a
job, it's a party!
On 4/11/2011 4:57 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote:
Kristina,
You and I are almost always on the same page, but here I have to
disagree with you.
Please read this article:
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/13420/Startup-Culture-Lessons-From-Mad-Men.aspx
I assure you... that company has some of the best talent working for
it in the area.
-Matt
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Kristina Anderson wrote:
It may be becoming more common, but it's a total turnoff to most
people. It doesn't seem like good business to limit oneself to
hiring those under 25 and/or those with alcohol abuse problems,
especially for a CTO position...? You're automatically excluding the
best talent from the search from the get-go, and attracting the sort
of employee who won't be able to do the work properly, thereby
resulting in a poor product.
There's no way a job post like that can yield any "top talent".
On 4/11/2011 4:46 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote:
Kristina,
In their defense, this kind of agile, work hard, play hard
environment is becoming much more common. One of the largest
start-ups I know gladly gives free alcohol to their employees, and
yes, they drink during the day. But no is irresponsible, and it's
been rated one of the top companies to work for. Like Nik's
company
(I assume), they are looking for top talent and wouldn't hire
people
who are likely to abuse the system. My guess is (though I don't
know Nik) that his company also has an extremely relaxed vacation
policy, because it isn't about the time you take, it's about the
work you accomplish.
-Matt
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Kristina Anderson 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:
o Excellent PHP skills (should be comfortable building
out an
application scalable to 100,000 daily uniques)
o Knowledgeable of system-wide architecture (setting up
version control, release engineering structs, etc.)
o Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup setting
o Familiarity with beer pong and general precepts of social
skill
Nice to have:
o Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery (not totally necessary
as
we already have a world-class designer and front-end)
o Sports fan (big, big plus - let us know what your
favorite
team is)
What we're not:
o Some huge, boring company where you'll have meetings
about
meetings
o A company that works in a space that you could care less
about
o A startup that values founder's valuations over the
future
gains of the employees
o 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.
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