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I'm betting "Yes you’ll get all the usual benefits, but if you’re really going for perks, Google is your best bet! If you want to make an impact, then please ap
by robotmlg 10y ago
I'm betting "Yes you’ll get all the usual benefits, but if you’re really going for perks, Google is your best bet! If you want to make an impact, then please apply." and "We’ll have a large variety of alcohol in the office as well as an assortment of video games for the perfect frat environment" are the two sentences from real job descriptions
- bdalgaard 10y agoMy guess was the Google line and "Plan on working ~100+ hours a week during sprints. If that scares you, don’t apply." The 100 hours is a little extreme, but I've seen things similar to "If that scares you, don’t apply." in descriptions before.
- dalbin 10y agoSad but true : http://www.indeed.com/job/javascript-nodejs-socketio-ninja-9d5f71f068a2d332 http://www.indeed.com/job/javascript-nodejs-socketio-ninja-9... https://www.codeeval.com/company/EmailCherry/ https://www.codeeval.com/company/EmailCherry/
- daw___ 10y agoBoth from the same company? Wow.
- oriolid 10y agoI believe it's called hedging.
- xirdstl 10y agoFrom the first link: > Plan on working ~100+ hours a week during sprints And the second: > A lot of companies equate putting in long hours with productivity. We think thats nonsense.
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- SonicSoul 10y agowow.. so many gems in there advanced JS (jquery doesn't count, cmon). A big plus if you've scaled products to tens of millions of users We'd love it if you've dealt with optimizing DB clusters, hadoop, relational DBs, Mongo, Node.js ~100+ hours a week during sprints Unlimited vacation days it's like someone had a brain fart of a job description during a drinking session and then went "fuck it, hey Bob watch this. <submit>"
- gaius 10y agoAnd with less than 3 years experience!
- RKoutnik 10y agoAuthor here, nicely done. That's the two sources for the real quotes.
- DKnoll 10y agoDoes the idea of beer and video games in the office really bother anyone? Sounds great to me...
- pyvpx 10y agowouldn't you rather do that at home? or outside the office, at least? but since you're working 60 or more hours a week, I guess in the office is the only opportunity...
- brianwawok 10y agoeh it's okay if you are 20 something and single. If your goal is to fill your office with 20 something single workers, it seems fairly effective..
- DKnoll 10y agoYou can have it both ways. I don't think older and attached people would be put off by that necessarily, you would just have to encourage them with other perks.
- brianwawok 10y agoSo I have worked in the young hip free beer in office environment full of 20 somethings. I have worked in the Fortune 1000 company full of older "lifers" I think it would be really hard to mix both together? Like just the offering of free beer and encouraging employees to stay after work and work till sundown.. that is going to build social circles among those people. How do you get the unwanted older guys with families to stick around? Pay them more than their worth to make up for it?
- DKnoll 10y agoYou give them windows to socialise during office hours like potlucks and other organised events. I've never worked somewhere where I am not the youngest person upon joining so I'm on the other side of this, but that seems to work. If people don't want to associate with coworkers and just clock in and clock out I think they probably don't belong in their job.
- lmz 10y agoI think "If that scares you, don’t apply. We don’t want people who are scared by silly things like reality." sounds more real than advertising a large variety of alcohol.