NYCPHP Meetup

[Joseph Sussman]

Plus, if you can remember how to do "Hello world!" in BASIC without
googling it (print? echo? quotes? semicolon?), then, you have a great
memory. Good for you. I would hardly consider any knowledge of BASIC
to be credential in the year 2011. Good luck, bros...

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Kristina Anderson
<ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> These are the sorts of job posts that just  make me look forward to
> switching to a different career... "kegerator" & "beer pong"?
> I should want to hang out with you outside of work and watch you drink until
> you puke while listening to loud rock & roll music?  (From the tone of the
> below it seems like you  may be doing this during the workday!)
>
> Clearly nobody in this awesome company has yet seen their 25th birthday...
>
>
>
> On 4/11/2011 3:47 PM, Nik Bonaddio wrote:
>
> I'm not a recruiter. Recruiters are lame and have no idea what they're
> doing. I know exactly what I'm looking for, so I'm posting here.
>
> ---
>
> Let's start with the boring stuff up front: We're a small, agile,
> well-trafficked startup in the sports analytics space. We've been covered by
> TechCrunch, we've been written up in Sports Illustrated, and now we're going
> to revolutionize the way users consume and engage with sports content. Our
> founders are ballers, our advisors are even more ballerous, and just wait
> until you see our product..
>
> If you're someone who loves sports and also loves building products, then
> we're your company. Even if you're not a huge sports fan, feel free to reach
> out to us - we're more interested in someone who knows how to get stuff
> done. If you're wondering what kind of people we're like socially, we have a
> kegerator in our office and our most played artist on iTunes is Animal
> Collective. You should be able to get our jokes and we should be able to
> want to hang out with you outside of work.
>
> Our stack is built on PHP and MySQL, but we're considering moving to Couch
> or Mongo. What do you suggest? We'd love to know. We have a world-class
> designer and front-end developer on board, we need to find someone who is
> comfortable on the PHP backend, taking things from the browser-level all the
> way down to the DB. We're not looking for someone who is merely good; we're
> looking for great - '85 Bears great. Lemieux in the 91-92 playoffs great.
> Lemonade and BBQ on a Summer afternoon great.
>
> Skillsets:
>
> Excellent PHP skills (should be comfortable building out an application
> scalable to 100,000 daily uniques)
> Knowledgeable of system-wide architecture (setting up version control,
> release engineering structs, etc.)
> Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup setting
> Familiarity with beer pong and general precepts of social skill
>
>
>
> Nice to have:
>
> Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery (not totally necessary as we already have a
> world-class designer and front-end)
> Sports fan (big, big plus - let us know what your favorite team is)
>
>
>
> What we're not:
>
> Some huge, boring company where you'll have meetings about meetings
> A company that works in a space that you could care less about
> A startup that values founder's valuations over the future gains of the
> employees
> A company founded by a bunch of suits who can't code Hello World in BASIC
>
> Even though we're a startup, this is a salary position. We'll shell out for
> the right employee. There is also a TON of equity involved; you're the third
> employee and huge part of our future success - we'll take care of you. You
> should ideally be in NYC, but that won't stop us from moving forward with
> the right person.
>
> To apply, just send us a resume (please send nik at numberfire.com) and we'll
> go from there.
>
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