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It would be interesting if someone (maybe the TripleByte folks?) did an analysis of the words/phrasing used to recruit early employees, and compared that to the
by jamestimmins 9y ago
It would be interesting if someone (maybe the TripleByte folks?) did an analysis of the words/phrasing used to recruit early employees, and compared that to the long term financial success of the company.
I frequently see job postings that poorly articulate the company's purpose, or focus heavily on experience with specific technologies that are easily learned, and arguably unimportant from a hiring perspective. I suspect that there is a negative correlation between those postings and financial performance, but I'm curious if the numbers support that assumption.
- veddox 9y agoAlthough I don't see Bezos saying anything about what his company actually does... None of the modern "We're going to disrupt X industry" / "We're democratizing Y" / "We're changing the world for the better by giving people Z"
- jamestimmins 9y agoAlthough it does say "pioneer commerce on the Internet", which at the time may have have been taken as "we're selling physical goods online", as I doubt many digital goods we're getting bought or sold online at the time.