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Hehe - Xobni recruiting video

38 points by brezina 19y ago

brezina 19y ago
High quality on Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/405285 http://blip.tv/file/405285 Blip videos look so niiiice
vlad 19y ago
Fake. They don't really talk like rappers. :(
gaborcselle 19y ago
That German guy sure has a nice suit.
- sharpshoot 19y ago
  swiss guy, unless gabor you really are german ;)? "schwizer ditch" anyone?
  - gaborcselle 19y ago
    I actually do have German passport, and that's where I grew up. I can only say a limited number of things in Swiss German.
    - nextmoveone 19y ago
      Das ist sehr gut Gabor. Ich bin eine stinke arschloch vom Peru! Deutscher ist das beste. Meine freundin wurde geboren im Berlin. Ausgenommen, meine deutsche ist scheisse! Y yo hablo espanol tambien. Porque yo soy Peruano, mi espanol es mejor que mi alleman. I speak english as well.
      - adnam 19y ago
        Have a banana.
        nextmoveone 19y ago
        I think I might.
PStamatiou 19y ago
wtf?
crxnamja 19y ago
update. i suck. better?
ardit33 19y ago
WTF. Sorry, but that video did not motivate me to join you company. Maybe, you will find somebody with similiar sense of humor you guys have, but what the heck? Looks kinda: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759736 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759736
- ardit33 19y ago
  ok, i see, all the negative responses are getting negged. If you don't want real feedback (even negative) than don't post something like that public.
  - plusbryan 19y ago
    on the contrary. while we hope that some people enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it, bad press is better than no press at all.
    - rms 19y ago
      My consulting firm organizes protests outside the offices of companies looking to generate controversy. It's a very lucrative market.
  - jamiequint 19y ago
    "deuchebags looking for a next victim er.. employee to abuse." Thats not exactly constructive feedback you've got there. Next time at least spell it right -> "douchebag"
    - ardit33 19y ago
      I agree with you, it wasn't constructive feedback, so I removed that sentence. Still, either that video is of bad taste, or I am lacking some sense of humor. I can't say it is motivating at all.
      - jamiequint 19y ago
mynameishere 19y ago
There's nothing I hate more than when my company wants me to pose for a brochure photo or website photo etc. Maybe I'm a "bad employee", but like most devs, I'm just an introvert naturally. However good or bad the video was, there are lots of people who would never want to participate in such silly things, irrespective of the technical sympathy that might exist between themselves and the company.
- deleted 19y ago
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- plusbryan 19y ago
  No employees were harmed during the making of this recruitment video.
  - gduffy 19y ago
    On the contrary, I am emotionally scarred by (my own) sad attempt at rapping. :) I want to start my recovery by issuing a formal apology to the Cocoa Brovaz. But really, as someone who generally tends towards introversion, I guarantee swift, painful justice for the first person to try labeling someone "not a team player" just because they aren't into stuff like this. However, it is important that they can laugh things off. At least for me, it was fun to loosen up a bit.
    - vlad 19y ago
      Which one were you?
      - plusbryan 19y ago
        greg is the one formerly known as logcabin.
  - nickb 19y ago
    BTW, now that you're at Xobni, is Pairwise RIP?
- 19y ago
immad 19y ago
That was hilarious. Gabor was great
redrory 19y ago
Nice.. i like
mhartl 19y ago
I'm confused: why put a line over the 'o' in 'Xobni', indicating a long vowel, and then proceed to pronounce it 'Zahbnee'?
- brezina 19y ago
  yeah, sorry about that. we use to pronounce it with a long o, but most people would pronounce it 'zahbnee' so we changed the pronunciation. However, we didn't want to change our little mascot dude or the logo. Even in a 1 1/2 year old startup we have legacy. weird.
  - wensing 19y ago
    I like the long o version better, myself. Zahbnee sounds a lot like zombie. Probably not the best association . . .
  - mhartl 19y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. At RailsConf 2007, David Heinemeier Hansson started a sentence with something like "If you have---I can't believe I'm saying this---a legacy Rails app..."
indie01 19y ago
"Our developer workstations boast 386 Mhz . . . and industry-leading green text graphics. .." This is classic! You people are hilarious. I'm still trying to figure out what that was . . . did one of the dudes have a bottle of maple syrup hung around his neck (?) and another one fuzzy dice . . . walking down the sidewalk during the rap music scene? Awesome.
Dauntless 19y ago
Didn't really enjoyed the video, I guess I'm not part of their targeted segment...
zandorg 19y ago
Hilarious video, I guess it's Recruitment backwards (tnemtiurceR).
zandorg 19y ago
I love the Ballmer turn from the German guy at the end.

38 points by brezina 19y ago

brezina 19y ago

High quality on Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/405285 http://blip.tv/file/405285 Blip videos look so niiiice

vlad 19y ago

Fake. They don't really talk like rappers. :(

gaborcselle 19y ago

That German guy sure has a nice suit.

sharpshoot 19y ago
swiss guy, unless gabor you really are german ;)? "schwizer ditch" anyone?
- gaborcselle 19y ago
  I actually do have German passport, and that's where I grew up. I can only say a limited number of things in Swiss German.
  - nextmoveone 19y ago
    Das ist sehr gut Gabor. Ich bin eine stinke arschloch vom Peru! Deutscher ist das beste. Meine freundin wurde geboren im Berlin. Ausgenommen, meine deutsche ist scheisse! Y yo hablo espanol tambien. Porque yo soy Peruano, mi espanol es mejor que mi alleman. I speak english as well.
    - adnam 19y ago
      Have a banana.
      - nextmoveone 19y ago
        I think I might.

PStamatiou 19y ago

wtf?

crxnamja 19y ago

update. i suck. better?

ardit33 19y ago

WTF. Sorry, but that video did not motivate me to join you company. Maybe, you will find somebody with similiar sense of humor you guys have, but what the heck? Looks kinda: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759736 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759736

ardit33 19y ago
ok, i see, all the negative responses are getting negged. If you don't want real feedback (even negative) than don't post something like that public.
- plusbryan 19y ago
  on the contrary. while we hope that some people enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it, bad press is better than no press at all.
  - rms 19y ago
    My consulting firm organizes protests outside the offices of companies looking to generate controversy. It's a very lucrative market.
- jamiequint 19y ago
  "deuchebags looking for a next victim er.. employee to abuse." Thats not exactly constructive feedback you've got there. Next time at least spell it right -> "douchebag"
  - ardit33 19y ago
    I agree with you, it wasn't constructive feedback, so I removed that sentence. Still, either that video is of bad taste, or I am lacking some sense of humor. I can't say it is motivating at all.
    - jamiequint 19y ago

mynameishere 19y ago

There's nothing I hate more than when my company wants me to pose for a brochure photo or website photo etc. Maybe I'm a "bad employee", but like most devs, I'm just an introvert naturally. However good or bad the video was, there are lots of people who would never want to participate in such silly things, irrespective of the technical sympathy that might exist between themselves and the company.

deleted 19y ago
[deleted]
plusbryan 19y ago
No employees were harmed during the making of this recruitment video.
- gduffy 19y ago
  On the contrary, I am emotionally scarred by (my own) sad attempt at rapping. :) I want to start my recovery by issuing a formal apology to the Cocoa Brovaz. But really, as someone who generally tends towards introversion, I guarantee swift, painful justice for the first person to try labeling someone "not a team player" just because they aren't into stuff like this. However, it is important that they can laugh things off. At least for me, it was fun to loosen up a bit.
  - vlad 19y ago
    Which one were you?
    - plusbryan 19y ago
      greg is the one formerly known as logcabin.
- nickb 19y ago
  BTW, now that you're at Xobni, is Pairwise RIP?
19y ago

immad 19y ago

That was hilarious. Gabor was great

redrory 19y ago

Nice.. i like

mhartl 19y ago

I'm confused: why put a line over the 'o' in 'Xobni', indicating a long vowel, and then proceed to pronounce it 'Zahbnee'?

brezina 19y ago
yeah, sorry about that. we use to pronounce it with a long o, but most people would pronounce it 'zahbnee' so we changed the pronunciation. However, we didn't want to change our little mascot dude or the logo. Even in a 1 1/2 year old startup we have legacy. weird.
- wensing 19y ago
  I like the long o version better, myself. Zahbnee sounds a lot like zombie. Probably not the best association . . .
- mhartl 19y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. At RailsConf 2007, David Heinemeier Hansson started a sentence with something like "If you have---I can't believe I'm saying this---a legacy Rails app..."

indie01 19y ago

"Our developer workstations boast 386 Mhz . . . and industry-leading green text graphics. .." This is classic! You people are hilarious. I'm still trying to figure out what that was . . . did one of the dudes have a bottle of maple syrup hung around his neck (?) and another one fuzzy dice . . . walking down the sidewalk during the rap music scene? Awesome.

Dauntless 19y ago

Didn't really enjoyed the video, I guess I'm not part of their targeted segment...

zandorg 19y ago

Hilarious video, I guess it's Recruitment backwards (tnemtiurceR).

zandorg 19y ago

I love the Ballmer turn from the German guy at the end.