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Yeah, those career listings are pretty bland. Not much sense of what you'd actually be doing, or even what the company is hoping to do in a bigger sense. If not

Yeah, those career listings are pretty bland. Not much sense of what you'd actually be doing, or even what the company is hoping to do in a bigger sense. If nothing else, more specificity in both those areas would help you stand out. Especially since, as you say, it's publishing and techies are kind of skeptical about their role in that. And "competitive compensation" to me signals "eh compensation". It's a pretty weaselly word. Also, I didn't see any technical people mentioned on the About page? Are they not part of the team? Here's what I'm getting at- sell people on the vision and what their specific role in it would be. What impact are they going to have, both in the company and in the world? As a startup, you've got the vision thing, or at least you damn well better, and it's your advantage. :-)

morgante 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. > And "competitive compensation" to me signals "eh compensation". It's a pretty weaselly word. What do you think would sound better? Above market compensation? > Also, I didn't see any technical people mentioned on the About page? Are they not part of the team? Good catch. I'm on there (Director of Product & Technology) but we haven't done a good job of keeping it up to date with new hires. > What impact are they going to have, both in the company and in the world? Yes, I definitely need to work on this. I've done a pretty good job of refining the technical vision and how it fits with the overall company, but haven't yet distilled it down to a good description. How's this: Cafe is building technology for discovering, publishing, and sharing great stories. We're building: web scrapers which analyze content across the web (with NLP and Amazon Mechanical Turk) to identify promising writers, a platform which makes it easy for non-technical writers to publish interactive stories, and analytics which model how ideas and stories flow across the web in real time. As a developer at Cafe, you'll be using technology to inform and entertain millions of people while driving clickbait off the web.
- waterlesscloud 12y ago
  Yes, "Above market compensation" is better. It makes me curious to find out what it is, and that's what you want. I like the reworked description too. Definitely implies some interesting work to be done.

morgante 12y ago

Thanks for the feedback. > And "competitive compensation" to me signals "eh compensation". It's a pretty weaselly word. What do you think would sound better? Above market compensation? > Also, I didn't see any technical people mentioned on the About page? Are they not part of the team? Good catch. I'm on there (Director of Product & Technology) but we haven't done a good job of keeping it up to date with new hires. > What impact are they going to have, both in the company and in the world? Yes, I definitely need to work on this. I've done a pretty good job of refining the technical vision and how it fits with the overall company, but haven't yet distilled it down to a good description. How's this: Cafe is building technology for discovering, publishing, and sharing great stories. We're building: web scrapers which analyze content across the web (with NLP and Amazon Mechanical Turk) to identify promising writers, a platform which makes it easy for non-technical writers to publish interactive stories, and analytics which model how ideas and stories flow across the web in real time. As a developer at Cafe, you'll be using technology to inform and entertain millions of people while driving clickbait off the web.

waterlesscloud 12y ago
Yes, "Above market compensation" is better. It makes me curious to find out what it is, and that's what you want. I like the reworked description too. Definitely implies some interesting work to be done.