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Roast My Job Offer
Hi everyone! My co-founder posted a react dev job offer here yesterday and received lots of feedback (mostly negative, yet super helpful).
I hire a UI designer now, here's my job offer, would love to hear your thoughts!
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We're looking for a UI designer who gets chills anytime they interact with a beautifully designed app/product and can spark this delight by their designs too!
About us
We're a creative team of supertalented individuals crafting supreme exp...haha, kidding. We hate this kind of fluff too, let's be short and sweet instead!
We design and build cool stuff for badass companies. Why badass?
No name dropping, but here are a few random things our clients do:
- Measure brain gamma waves to help you get into the flow state
- Build a neobank for e-commerce
- Invest in autonomous aircrafts and blockchain protocols
- Write famous business newsletter sent daily to 2.5M users
We make no promises here, but chances to work on yet another pizza delivery app are low (But acutally you never know, possibilites to innovate are infinite)
About you
First and foremost, UI skills! We use Figma whenever possible so prior experience with this nifty tool is needed. Second, English (B2+, best C1+). You are ready to work in EU time zones, with occasional calls in the evening with our American folks (ET/PT)
Also, you are able (and like) to take the lead. That's you!
Here is a full list of some other desired skills.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO TICK ALL THE BOXES.
UX Research
Building wireframes/wireflows
User interviews
Design systems
Interaction/Motion Design (Principle or similar)
Animation Design (After Effect, Haiku or similar)
Prototyping (Figma, InVision or similar)
Illustration Design
Copywriting
Logo/Branding
Low-code frontend development (Webflow)
What this is not
This is not a graphic designer role who spends most of their time creating assets for social media or funny posters. Sometimes we will need your help with Dribbble posts, case studies etc. but your primary focus will be user interface design.
This is not for UX designers aspiring to learn UI design. While your UX skills or willingness to learn it will be a huge advantage, we want you to be a master of sleek and crips UI design in the first place.
Why you might be excited about us
Work atmosphere. While EVERY company says they are an awesome workplace filled with amazing people, we state it with full self-awareness that you'll love working with our team.
Opportunity to network with founders of the hottest US and Canada based startups
Occasional deep dives into domains like crypto & web3, fintech, biotech, space and much more
Why You Might NOT Be Excited About Us
You should be comfortable with just a dash of chaos. This is not the kind of job where you show up and we tell you exactly what to do every day.
{COMPANY} is a shamelessly pro-startup, pro-tech organization. If that’s not your thing, this place might not be your dream job.
Nitty Gritty
We enjoy remote work, but if you like to work at our office in Katowice (Poland), you are more than welcome to do so!
Shoot us a message below and tell us:
What you are good at
What you are not so good at but would love to improve
Who/What inspires you in the UI domain
What is not your cup of tea
Provide some background, showcase your previous work, and tell what we can do to make this collaboration fun! Btw, if you start your message with the word "bananas" you'll get extra points for making it all the way here:) Also, if you use twitter and hate traditional hiring processes, you can DM us {OUR TWITTER HANDLE} and we will take it from there!
We're excited to meet you! :)
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Salary range, years of experience are listed as well.
What do you think?
- dcedrych 5y agoDeleted benefits and process sections as I exceeded characters limit, but this should give you already a good idea of what I'm trying to accomplish. Thanks!
- schwartzworld 5y agoNext time delete the jokes and leave the actual job information. You don't get points for being clever. Applicants want to know: job responsibilities, benefits / pay, required experience.
- mtmail 5y agoCan you link to the negative feedback? I can't find the original job ad on Hackernews.
- dcedrych 5y agoyup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108683 Guess I drive attention out of this post :P
- jstx1 5y agoI'm not qualified to criticise the design-specific points but one of themes in yesterday's post was that you have a lot of text and inappropriate tone. It's the same here - you have irrelevant text, out-of-place joke, other red flags and lots of defensive points. It comes off like you know that your company sucks and you're trying to defend it in front of someone who is probably just learning about it now.