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Startup offers trip as hiring bonus
- russtrpkovski 14y agoGreat job with the posting. Very creative!
- mikenyc 14y agoThanks!
- danieldk 14y agoVery nicely done! One minor nit: clicking on '5' on the top scrolls to '4' ;). (Edit: obviously, it is slide 5, but still ;).)
- mikenyc 14y agoThanks for the feedback. It depends on your browser size. On very large screens it gets a little funky. We talked about it, but ended up deciding to not sweat the edge cases.
- christkv 14y agoDoes the job come with that sweet bling cross ?
- mikenyc 14y agoSubject to negotiation! But we're willing to discuss. :)
- caycep 14y agowhat i can't figure out and want to know is: is stumptown still good or have they turned evil?
- mikenyc 14y agoPlato said ... Just kidding. I don't know. They're probably cool.
- erichmond 14y agoThey're still all the rage out here in Brooklyn, so I assume they're still fighting the good fight.
- ahhrrr 14y agoNot evil, as far as I know. They have some great single origins, but I'm less excited about their blends.
- goatforce5 14y agoMore importantly: what sort of beans do you keep stocked in the office?
- sethbannon 14y agoI can vouch for the fact that they have the best of the best. It's a wonderland of unlimited gourmet beans.
- mikenyc 14y agoWe have an endless supply of the best coffee available on the planet. We receive between 50 to 100 samples every month. We work with NYC's top baristas to do blind tastings of every sample we receive and we keep detailed sensory records (awesome db of data on coffee evaluations, btw!). After all that, only the top 3 coffees from that process make it into our boxes. And, we partner with General Assembly to provide those same 3 coffees as our office coffee. So it's coffee heaven.
- goatforce5 14y agoNeat. Worked with a coffee fiend at my first job that put the "every office needs a good espresso machine" idea in my head. I've never quite executed that idea because I figure a clueless coworker would not clean it, burn themselves, or worse (flavoured supermarket beans - eurgh!). Working somewhere with a constant supply of good coffee would be amazing.
- bmelton 14y agoI don't disagree, but I would honestly worry. I love coffee, and one of the best days in recent memory is when a local micro-roaster opened up shop in the Crownsville area (Bean Rush Cafe, fantastic coffee if you're local to it) -- but y'know, sometimes I like cream or sugar in my coffee, and I could very easily see myself being judged for that in the same way I judge people who put soda in their whiskey. And I'd hate to end up being the coffee-pansy. :'(
- pallinder 14y agoGreat stuff, always hard to find good people and Im sure this will bring in lots of nice applicants. And a little trip to Brazil would indeed be nice. Good luck!
- mikenyc 14y agoThanks. Appreciate the feedback!
- railsdude 14y agoThank god there's a picture of a fat dude on the page. Had it been a picture of a hot girl in a bikini and we'd hear drama about this for a week.
- mikenyc 14y agoWe have some women on the team at Craft Coffee, and let's just say that you are correct, sir.
- colinyoung 14y agoSmart man.
- patrickaljord 14y agoNobody ever got fired for making fun of slightly overweight white men.
- stwe 14y agoThere is already drama, apparently they only address this to guys. How about "Grab your bikini"?
- sp332 14y agoI thought of this, but I think it's OK in the context of the joke. (And technically, Speedo might stereotypically be associated with men, but they make stuff for women too.)
- white_devil 14y agoI sure hope at least one of you is being sarcastic.
- rohamg 14y agowouldn't be so sure..
- ura1a 14y agoI'm from Brazil and a ruby developer. Can I exchange the trip for a visa?
- artmageddon 14y agoI would apply if I had any skills in Ruby, but alas, I've done mostly .Net / iOS development. That said, I absolutely love postings like this!
- mikenyc 14y agoIf you're interested, you should apply. If everything else is a great fit, I'm sure you can learn Ruby/Rails if that's something you're interested in doing.
- theFiur 14y agoThat picture is from the Romanian seaside (Romanian gypsies), I have a different angle here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/913zazhaca3i965/lamare.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/913zazhaca3i965/lamare.jpg
- xingyong723 14y agoDddedff
- xingyong723 14y ago我爱你 中国
- JohnnyHVan 14y agoMore people need to recruit like this!
- mikenyc 14y agoThanks! Appreciate the kind words.
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- ahhrrr 14y agoNow I know I'm not the only Ruby developer in the coffee industry!
- mikenyc 14y agoHappy to share notes if you ever want to talk. My email is in my hacker news profile. Feel free to connect.
- wolframarnold 14y agoIt's cute guys, I give you points for creativity. But as Rails consultant in San Francisco for many years and recent startup founder myself, I must say that the icon about $2500 for the hardware of your choice kind of backfires and I've advised my clients against using such incentives. On the one hand the new Mac Book with the retina display fully loaded runs about that in minimum configuration by itself. So no budget for an external Thunderbolt display? But more disconcertingly is the subtext which says, buy and set yourself up however you want, without regard to what makes for the lowest friction team, pairing and collaboration experience. In a way this is the cubicle of the 21st century. This is why shops like Pivotallabs don't give their employees individual machines, all they have is a room full of pairing stations, because they realize that ease of cooperation is far more important than personal preferences and customization.
- mikenyc 14y agoPoint taken. But in our case, we're bringing on our first lead engineer. This person will create our engineering culture and be the one who decides how these processes will play out. So the opportunity here is to shape our engineering team, including how developers will work together.
- outworlder 14y agoOk, so the $2500 is the budget for the developer's machine. A more important question is: who owns the machine, the developer or the company? If it is the former, I see no reason to complain.
- wolframarnold 14y agoI've yet to see a startup or any company for that matter that signs over ownership of assets bought with company funds to rank and file employees.
- wolframarnold 14y agoHow about saying just that then? If you want the person to create a culture, then giving them a $2.5k budget sends the wrong message there too, as to how much leeway they have. I don't think this will attract the right kind of candidate. Just my $.02
- Jauny 14y agoAre you planning on hiring juniors soon? I'll go throught dev bootcamp from oct to dec, and would love to come to nyc un january :) I have some of the experiences you are talking about, so I would love to talk with you !
- davtbaum 14y agoNice misuse of the term 'low level developers' Craft Coffee...
- volandovengo 14y agoCool idea: I'm curious why you need a talented developer though. Shouldn't shopify be good enough for you?
- frankdenbow 14y agoCan't do subscription billing on shopify
- mikenyc 14y agoNope, we reject your premise. Check out slide 2.
- br00klyn 14y agoJust curious to hear opinions: How competitive is $50–100k in NYC? The 0.5–10% does seem potentially generous. [http://angel.co/craftcoffee#recruiting http://angel.co/craftcoffee#recruiting]
- mikenyc 14y agoThanks for the question, anon user who created an account 3 minutes ago. You can't realistically boil these things down in a web form text input. So we put a wide range for both salary AND equity to indiciate optionality on the part of the person we end up hiring.
- griffindy 14y agoI'm sad you guys are in New York and not Boston, I love me some good coffee! beautiful website too
- mikenyc 14y agoLet's talk! Boston is not so far away. Shoot me an email. code@craftcoffee.com