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Cool approach, but if I were a prospective employee or client I'd be weary of a large executive committee that is willing to spend that kind of money on what am
by jsavimbi 15y ago
Cool approach, but if I were a prospective employee or client I'd be weary of a large executive committee that is willing to spend that kind of money on what amounts to a vanity gag.
- lwhi 15y agoHow much did it cost?
- elliottcarlson 15y agoJust doing a quick Google search, it seems it costs around $150 to get a fully customized bobble head in physical form. It would probably cost more to have it faked (even if it's an in-house designer) than to get real ones created and take high quality pictures of those.
- neovive 15y agoKeep in mind that this is company behind the elaborate "Angry Nerds" April Fool's game (http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds). It does provide some excellent PR and a testing ground for new technologies.
- robinwarren 15y agosurely as a prospective employee it'd be good to know they've got cash spare for this kind of thing?
- jsavimbi 15y agoOnly if you're looking to work for a 400+ employee organization where people think that this sort of thing is of such importance. If my CEO stopped by my desk with a bobblehead of himself, I'd have to step out fo character and go Biblical for a moment.
- Pewpewarrows 15y agoInjecting a little humor and character into your corporation via some creative pages on your website will make me _more_ likely to do business with you. It humanizes the company.
- jsavimbi 15y agoSorry to be a downer, but it all depends depends on how you look at it. To me it looks like this group of executives has decided to celebrate itself under the guise of humor. I'm more of an egalitarian than that.
- mrgoldenbrown 15y agoWould you react the same way if they had boring but equally expensive professional photos instead of bobbleheads?
- felideon 15y agoI'd be more wary of their own website not scaling. (I was able to see the page a few minutes ago but now their website is down.)
- mrgoldenbrown 15y agoI doubt this is significantly more expensive than sending the execs all out for professional portraits. And better yet, it got them free advertising on HN, and who knows how many other sites. I'd say this scheme has already paid for itself.
- jsimons 15y agoI work at Atlassian. The dolls were $100 each, and lots of us are just going to wrap 'em up as x-mas presents for our kids. We did the rest ourselves. As someone else commented, professional photos would have cost as much, with a lot more yawns.