Startup offers trip as hiring bonus

[railsdude]

Thank 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.

[stwe]

There is already drama, apparently they only address this to guys. How about "Grab your bikini"?

[mikenyc]

We have some women on the team at Craft Coffee, and let's just say that you are correct, sir.

[theFiur]

That picture is from the Romanian seaside (Romanian gypsies), I have a different angle here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/913zazhaca3i965/lamare.jpg

[mikenyc]

Wow. You know, we saw him and we fell in love. You gotta go with your heart on these things.

[christkv]

Does the job come with that sweet bling cross ?

[mikenyc]

Subject to negotiation! But we're willing to discuss. :)

[ura1a]

I'm from Brazil and a ruby developer. Can I exchange the trip for a visa?

[mikenyc]

Yes. Seriously. If we decide to hire somebody from outside the US who wants to move to NYC, we will sponsor a visa. You should apply.

[volandovengo]

Cool idea: I'm curious why you need a talented developer though. Shouldn't shopify be good enough for you?

[frankdenbow]

Can't do subscription billing on shopify

[mikenyc]

Nope, we reject your premise. Check out slide 2.

[goatforce5]

More importantly: what sort of beans do you keep stocked in the office?

[mikenyc]

We 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.

[sethbannon]

I can vouch for the fact that they have the best of the best. It's a wonderland of unlimited gourmet beans.

[russtrpkovski]

Great job with the posting. Very creative!

[mikenyc]

Thanks!

[griffindy]

I'm sad you guys are in New York and not Boston, I love me some good coffee! beautiful website too

[mikenyc]

Let's talk! Boston is not so far away. Shoot me an email. [email protected]

[wolframarnold]

It'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.

[pallinder]

Great 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]

Thanks. Appreciate the feedback!

[artmageddon]

I 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]

If 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.

[microtonal]

Very nicely done! One minor nit: clicking on '5' on the top scrolls to '4' ;).

(Edit: obviously, it is slide 5, but still ;).)

[mikenyc]

Thanks 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.

[ahhrrr]

Now I know I'm not the only Ruby developer in the coffee industry!

[mikenyc]

Happy to share notes if you ever want to talk. My email is in my hacker news profile. Feel free to connect.

[davtbaum]

Nice misuse of the term 'low level developers' Craft Coffee...

[br00klyn]

Just curious to hear opinions: How competitive is $50–100k in NYC?

The 0.5–10% does seem potentially generous.

[http://angel.co/craftcoffee#recruiting]

[mikenyc]

Thanks 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.

[JohnnyHVan]

More people need to recruit like this!

[mikenyc]

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words.

[caycep]

what i can't figure out and want to know is: is stumptown still good or have they turned evil?

[ahhrrr]

Not evil, as far as I know. They have some great single origins, but I'm less excited about their blends.

[erichmond]

They're still all the rage out here in Brooklyn, so I assume they're still fighting the good fight.

[mikenyc]

Plato said ...

Just kidding. I don't know. They're probably cool.

[patdennis]

Google translate: "I love you"

[mikenyc]

Thank you.